Sound Signatures #1

Objects have hidden, unrealized qualities and potentials for interaction that can be revealed when they are approached in an unusual way. Approaching them through listening creates possibilities for new connections and combinations that foster new relationships between human and non-human actors. The sound installation proposed by Christophe Fellay puts the visitor in touch with the…

F Sharp Bright Orange

Christophe Fellay and Marie Noële Guex presented a series of immersive live performances and open rehearsals exploring the theme of traces. Traces are a recurrent material in both Guex and Fellay’s work; they are defined by their existence in the present, yet they usually refer to the past (photographs, recordings, memorabilia) and sometimes serve as a source…

Peripheral vision

In collaboration with street artist and photographer Rhea Karam, Peripheral Vision was presented in two parts. First, one of Karam’s visual works is put in motion, unraveling in time alongside Fellay’s sonic creation. Second, Karam engaged with one of Guex’s video pieces by drawing live on the video’s projection, creating a temporary trace while Christophe explored spatial…

Assonances

Assonance is a figure of speech consisting of the repetition of a same vowel sound in several close words. More generally one speaks of assonance in the case of a repetition of one or more vowels in a verse or phrase. The desired effect is, as with the alliteration, the highlight of a sonority and…

Equinox Gardens

During the equinox, day and night divide exactly the two hemispheres and from the North Pole to the South Pole, all the points of a Meridian simultaneously receive the sunlight during the day. The elements that form day, night, time, duration, and the passage from one luminosity to another, are being used as elements of…

Orlando

Orlando is an opera, a performative installation combining conscious movement, video installation, architecture and live music performance. Julie Beauvais choreographed conscious movements with seven Orlandos of today, embodying the post-binary new paradigm in Berlin, Kinshasa, Marfa, London, Varanasi, Lisboa, Chandolin, Patagonia, North Sea. Slow motion is used as a means of revelation, enabling an expanded consciousness, a clairvoyance. Horace Lundd chosed vast horizon lines…