Performance
Jocelyn Cottencin
MONUMENTAL
15/03/2019 — 17/03/2019
For several years, visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin has been conducting a reflection on form, image, signs and space through recurrent themes such as the group and the community.
For his projects he uses installations, film, graphic design, performances and the book. Quite logically, Monumental is a project that moves borders.
Monumental seeks to activate a visual and collective memory originating in representations of our history, in particular the history of art, or media and contemporary events.
Performance
Radouan Mriziga
0.KANAL
20/03/2019
How can dance and architecture create a new kind of space together? During Performatik19, choreographer Radouan Mriziga will install a residency project at KANAL–Centre Pompidou.
Using Bauhaus as a pedagogical model, he seeks to establish a contemporary educational practice that reformulates the models of space. He is inviting dance and architecture students to share their knowledge and practice. Projecting the resulting questions onto the surrounding workspace will create a new way of thinking and feeling space.
Performance
Louise Vanneste
Une incursion / one foray
26/01/2019 — 27/01/2019
During a short moment, Une incursion / one foray proposes a choreographic landscape that involves light, space, the body and sound.
The performers invokes an imaginary landscape inspired by Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique, Michel Tournier’s novel about Robinson Crusoe. In a state of intense mental activity and increased alert, the body opens itself up to sensations specific to the conjured images. The body does not evolve as an idea of self-representation or self-expression, but rather becomes a living landscape.
Performance
Clara Guémas
Oooa
16/09/2018 — 17/09/2018
For several years, Clara Guémas has been developing her work as an artist and choreographer in prisons. She examines the restrained and controlled life of the prisoners, and the place of the body in isolated spaces. In the first cycle of her choreographic research into the concept of freedom (2012-2018), she works on the topic of 'memory', which throws a glance at both the past and the future, between retrospection and projection.
Performance
OONA DOHERTY
HOPE HUNT AND THE ASCENSION INTO LAZARUS
10/11/2018 — 11/11/2018
In a delivery area, a parked car blasts tracks mixed by a DJ who opens a trap door through which Oona Doherty emerges from the vehicle. The artist launches into a first hip-hop solo. Interacting with the audience, the choreographer and performer ushers the spectators through the building, leading them to another stage, where a second solo takes place.
In this double solo titled Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus, the artist Oona Doherty moves through the space with her hair pulled back and dressed in baggy hip-hop clothes that conceal the gender of whoever is wearing them.
Performance
ANNIE DORSEN
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
22/11/2018 — 25/11/2018
Under an inflatable planetarium that reconstitutes a digital cosmos, 50 spectators are invited to immerse themselves in a visual and musical score. Volatile texts drawn from the Internet galaxy (social networks, forums, platforms, chats, blogs) are sequenced by an algorithm. The actress-performer, equipped with her mind, voice and body, answers as best she can to the uncontrollable flow of abstract or anecdotal signals she perceives. As always in the work of Annie Dorsen, a central question underlies the beauty of this immersive performance.
Performance
KATE MCINTOSH
WORKTABLE
24/10/2018 — 28/10/2018
Worktable is a live installation, open to visitors for several days. Worktable takes place in a series of rooms - you must sign in to enter and you can stay as long as you like. Once inside there are instructions, equipment and safety goggles so you can get to work -it's up to you to decide how things come apart.
We provide the hammer, you do the rest.
Sign in and get to work!
Performance
DANIEL LINEHAN/ HIATUS
MEDIUM MEDIUM
06/10/2018 — 07/10/2018
07/10/2018 — 08/10/2018
In Medium Medium, Linehan takes the audience on a guided tour in which he creates a performative dialogue between selected artworks on view and his own artistic work. The artworks speak to him, and he speaks back to them through the medium of dance. He also brings along his 2013 book, A No Can Make Space, and recites poetic fragments from the book, so the “speaking” becomes quite literal.
Performance
KATERINA ANDREOU
BSTRD
22/09/2018 — 23/09/2018
BSTRD (BASTARDISING STEPS,GESTURES AND ATTITUDES), is a new solo experiment that is based on the notion of impurity; through this approach, it calls into question the fixed nature of ways of approaching identity or better the concept of ‘’belonging’’ (moral, political, personal) via ideas of origins that tent to oppress the very basic sense of individual autonomy and ignore the reality of contemporary intertextuality.
Performance
GAETAN RUSQUET
MEANWHILE
15/09/2018 — 16/09/2018
Three performers patiently erect a construction. Their gestures are methodical and the scene, architectural model or installation, takes shape like a city. Playing on the principles of stability and scale, the performers must face the destruction of their undertaking. Sound masses become more intense, ultimately making the space vibrate. The structure crumbles and the bodies become powerless. The threat of collapse becomes more concrete.