A week of performances, films, concerts, and discussions centered around body skills in relation to image and knowledge, offered as part of LittOral, a research and creation workshop at Villa Arson, led by Patrice Blouin and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, dedicated to the relationships between speech, body, and stage.
To explore the links between these different techniques (body techniques, representation techniques, knowledge techniques), a number of contemporary artistic practices (performances, videos) will be revisited through a confrontation with other disciplines, both physical and cinematic, sportive and burlesque.
This broadening of the field of investigation will particularly allow for questioning techniques in their ordinary effectiveness, apart from their decisive moments: the “t” instants of invention, or sudden obsolescence, unexpected tipping points from incompetence to competence (and vice versa).
Performance Evening 1
Wednesday, December 5 at 8 PM
Dreams come true, a performance by Yan Duyvendak
“If I proposed a game involving showing ten people in a doomed plane equipped with only nine parachutes, I would find candidates,” asserts John de Mol, proponent of so-called reality TV and creator of numerous shows in this genre.
Cinema Evening 2
Thursday, December 6 at 7 PM
Grimaces by Erró (1962-1967, 45’)
The pop painter Erró based his brief cinematic work (four shorts between 1962 and 1967) on capturing faces and their contortions. Grimaces is true to its title and these cinematic pieces.
Thursday, December 6 at 8 PM
The Nutty Professor (Dr. Jerry and Mr. Love) by Jerry Lewis (USA, 1963, 1h47)
Professor Kelp is a very clumsy chemistry professor. His classes are more entertaining than instructive. Secretly, he prepares an elixir through which he transforms into a charming, confident crooner named Buddy Love.
Symposium and Performance Evening 2
At 9:30 AM – Patrice Blouin: “Athletes are also images” / 10:30 AM – Yan Duyvendak: “Before / During / After” / 11:30 AM – Eric Duyckaerts: “The practice of success” / 2 PM – Christophe Kihm: “A burlesque knowledge” / 3 PM – Elie During: “The brain is a sports organ” / 4:30 PM – Eric Mangion: “The V of defeat” / 5:30 PM – Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux: “Grimaces, insults, and giving the finger or some tricks from the trickster artist”
Friday, December 7 at 8 PM
Concert of I apologize with Jean-Luc Verna, Gauthier Tassart & Pascal Marius
Jean-Luc Verna loves famous images from art history, statue poses, repertoire tunes: Siouxsie and the Banshees (the queen), T-REX, punk, Anarchy in the UK, the new wave.
Cinema Evening 3
Saturday, December 8 at 8 PM
Holy Motors by Leos Carax (France, 2012, 1h55)
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a being who travels from life to life. By turns a CEO, a murderer, a beggar woman, a monstrous creature, a family man… M. Oscar seems to play roles, diving entirely into each — but where are the cameras? He is alone, accompanied only by Céline, a tall blonde woman in command.
