Ryoji Ikeda

superposition

Archive 2012
Music

 

Ryoji Ikeda
superposition
Commisioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris for the musical part
 
Ryoji Ikeda, concept, music and Artistic Direction
Stéphane Garin, Amélie Grould, performers
Tomonaga Tokuyama, Norimichi Hirakawa, Yoshito Onishi, Graphic realisation, Programmation 
Daisuke Sekine, Architectural conception 
Simon MacColl, Technical Direction
Tomonaga Tokuyama, Technical Coordination

Production Ryoji Ikeda Studio ; Quaternaire ; FormaCoproduction Concertgebouw (Bruges) ; Festival de Marseille ; EPPGH La Villette (Paris) ; Kyoto Experiment ; ZKM-Centre d’art et de technologie des médias (Karlsruhe) ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Mécénat Musical Société Générale and Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa

 

Ryoji Ikeda first emerged on the music scene in the mid 1990s with an eclectic approach featuring the art of the DJ and producing complex montages of surgical accuracy gradually stripped of all outside references. More recent works have moved towards abstract formalism, challenging perception, seeking extremes – infra-sound and ultra-sound. superposition, referring to quantum physics, is performance in diverse forms with a score/matrix for an original ritual.

In the same place

Centre Pompidou
septembersept 27 – 29

Mathilde Monnier
Territoires

Dance
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In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.

Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 2 - november – nov 2

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Rétrospective

Visual arts Focus
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.

Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 2 - january – jan 2

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Night Particles

Visual arts Focus

The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.

Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 5 – 14

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition

Performance Focus

The Thai filmmaker's second foray into performance art, A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition, presented in Paris in a new version enhanced by a third part, uses virtual reality to create the conditions for a collective dream.

Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 23 – 26
Points communs – Théâtre 95
novembernov 12 – 13

Ligia Lewis
Still Not Still

Dance
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In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.

Centre Pompidou
novembernov 27 – 30

Forced Entertainment
Signal to Noise

Theatre
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Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.

Centre Pompidou
decemberdec 13 – 22
Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry
januaryjan 22 – 26

Sébastien Kheroufi
Par les villages

Theatre
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Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.