Animal Architecte
Durée d’exposition
© © Jean-Louis Fernandez ©
© © Jean-Louis Fernandez ©
Concept and direction, Camille Dagen
Stage and costume design, Emma Depoid
With Thomas Mardell, and Hélène Morelli
Musical creation, Kaspar Tainturier-Fink
Sound, Kaspar Tainturier-Fink or Valentin Kottelat
Lighting design, Hugo Hamman
Lighting, Hugo Hamman or Sébastien Lemarchand
Video design, Camille Dagen, and Valentin Kottelat
Collective dramaturgy
Administration, production, diffusion, Cécile Jeanson, Léa Coutel (bureau Formart)
This show is presented in association with La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
and Festival d’Automne à Paris.
An Animal Architecte production
Executive producer, Bureau Formart
In association with La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Jeune Théâtre National (Paris), La Loge et La Loge hors-les-murs, Agence culturelle Grand Est, Festival les Effusions et les Bourlingueurs, Compagnie Beau Geste, Mains d’Œuvres, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Le phénix, scène nationale de Valenciennes – pôle européen de création, and T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, centre dramatique national
In this piece, Camille Dagen and Emma Depoid transpose to the stage the different steps of a manual of analogue photography. Durée d’exposition, a hybrid object on the frontiers of theatre and performance, functions as a methodical and playful attempt at capturing the real, thereby enabling us to rediscover the world.
The instruction manual unfurls before us, revealing the protocol behind the fabrication of an image, from framing to development. At each stage, and with disconcerting ease and astounding authenticity, the two performers embark on a performance, a sequence or an action which translates it, in artistic terms, to the stage. The writing draws upon texts encountered during the work process itself; fragments of different texts appear – Racine, Buchner or the front-page of a newspaper. In a way which is not void of humour, the piece touches upon the beauty of uncovered scenes, and the magic of the random and the incongruous. The vocabulary of photography, applied to time in the present, poses questions about the theatrical gesture and sheds light upon the inner workings of acting and portrayal. In doing so, the subject at the heart of the process reveals itself: separation, whether it be the break-up of a relationship or the distance which separates us from others. It is precisely this distance which this shared theatrical experience seeks to overcome. Animal Architecte bring us a piece which is both melancholic and joyous, and which makes full use of all artistic liberties.
In the same place
Carte Blanche Dream City
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Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
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Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.
Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.