Protest Engraving is an artistic performance which fluctuates between the scientific discipline of sound archaeology and fiction. Starting from the idea that sound leaves traces of its interaction with the material, Christophe Fellay proposes to overwrite the sonic memory of the Zeughausareal military past with messages of peace. Using the natural phenomenon of sound erosion, an amplified…
Category: Performances
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…
Ansteys Building
The South African megalopolis of Johannesburg has an impressive energy that can be heard in its ever-changing urban landscape. As they move through the city centre, township workers generate the city’s soundscape. The peak is reached when, at the end of their working day, mini city buses take them back to their neighbourhoods. Within an…
UnFrozen
UnFrozen (2023) is a sound installation created by Christophe Fellay to react to Marie-Noële Guex video work Frozen (2023). While Marie is extending pixels to create slow evolving landscapes, Christophe freezes the sonic frequencies of his instruments to create elements of spatial contemplation Composed and performed by Christophe Fellay for Long Ago in a Soft Light…
Shuffle
To create Shuffle, Christian Marclay photographed musical notation on objects and in locations all over the world, including shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear, and other unexpected places. These photographs are presented as a deck of cards used as a spontaneous musical score. Created by Christian Marclay (2007), performed by Christophe Fellay and Notes Inégales at Kings…
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…