{"id":3187,"date":"2016-06-01T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:18:01","slug":"performances-dances-concert-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/en\/2016\/06\/performances-dances-concert-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Performances, dances, concert, readings"},"content":{"rendered":"

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 7.01pm #MemoryoftheUniverse observes and absorbs!<\/em> ( 20\u2019) \/ Alysse Stepanian (USA)<\/h3>\n

In a performance during the opening of her video installation, #MemoryoftheUniverse | Syria Planum: For Water for Oil<\/em>,\u00a0Alysse Stepanian will deliver a performative presentation regarding\u00a0her\u00a0fictional character, a\u00a0half-human, half-cow creature, and the possibility of breaking free from a destructive human-centered world. (DEUX [d\u00f8] Gallery \u2013 2 rue de la Biblioth\u00e8que, 13001) Alysse’s\u00a0performance was made possible in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10<\/strong> 6.07pm<\/strong> New Life<\/em> \/ Aziz Boumediene\u00a0<\/strong>(France)<\/h3>\n

An itinerant performance<\/strong>, starting at Tour Panorama (Floor 3) and going to Cartonnerie, with the dancers Ivan Bougnoux & Aziz Boumediene. New Life<\/em> is a metaphor of the overcoming of visible and invisible borders. Dance is performed as a chance to emancipate, to free from physical and moral barriers. Objects, words are tools to tell a story, the story of human beings in exile, going to an elsewhere, a more hospitable land, a more peaceful self, a new life. Note: I have been working on the issue of overcoming borders for years. The source of this concern can be explained by my dual citizenship (French-Moroccan). Life going, I overcome this question of citizenship and I have turned my attention to the overcoming of borders in a broader sense. Inner boundaries, spaces boundaries in spaces, boundaries between the variety of possible perceptions, boundaries between disciplines, etc… I am conducting that work in link with my own development, my every day life and necessarily with the current social and political events. My work is inspired by the reality of the moment, of the space in order to transform our perception.<\/p>\n

8.11pm Fr\u00e8res numains (discours aux classes interm\u00e9diaires)<\/strong><\/em> (18′ – 2016) \/ reading by Florence Pazzottu<\/strong> (France)<\/h3>\n

Text published by Al Dante, afterword by Bernard No\u00ebl. \u00ab\u2026 alors vous entendez, \u00e7a gronde, \u00e7a bombe le torse, \u00e7a tape du poing et \u00e7a sanctionne, les voyageurs sans billets, les profiteurs du rsa, les resquilleurs, les agit\u00e9s, agitateurs, les militants incontr\u00f4lables \u00e7a dit, \u00e7a fait des listes, les d\u00e9linquants, les activistes, les int\u00e9gristes, les fra\u00eechement radicalis\u00e9s, des djihadis\u00e9s plus ou moins, et s\u2019il y en a un, m\u00eame un seul, qui, terroriste, l\u2019est ou pourrait l\u2019\u00eatre, \u00e7a justifie toutes les \u00e9coutes \u00e7a dit, la mise en fiche de tous les autres, car c\u2019est au nom de la Libert\u00e9 qu\u2019on conditionne les libert\u00e9s, c\u2019est pas pareil, apr\u00e8s la flexis\u00e9curit\u00e9 voici la s\u00fbret\u00e9 lib\u00e9rale, \u00e7a promet, \u00e7a promet des flingues aux vigiles, exit le privil\u00e8ge d\u2019\u00c9tat, et tant pis si \u00e7a ouvre la porte aux polices priv\u00e9es, aux milices, \u00e7a nettoie, \u00e7a intensifie, \u00e7a hisse au rang de paradigme la lutte contre le terrorisme, toute la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 scrut\u00e9e, surveill\u00e9e, mutique par solidarit\u00e9\u2026\u00bb This poetic speech, written in one stroke on 8\u00a0March\u00a02016, now participates in the angry pre-insurrectionary movements that started after 31\u00a0March (youth uprising, on a sign held up at a protest one can read \u201cNuit debout\u201d \u2013 \u201cLa nuit n\u2019a pas de bout, nous sommes l\u2019aurore\u201d [\u201cUp all night\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe night has no end, we are the dawn\u201d] \u2013 blockades, strikes, convergence of struggles here and there…). In his afterword, Bernard No\u00ebl responds energetically to this \u00ab\u00a0Discours aux classes interm\u00e9diaires\u00a0\u00bb [Speech to the middleclass]. Written after March 31, he reads this text in analogy to the current insurgency and uses it to offer some thoughts. He concludes: \u00ab\u00a0We need to accept or fight, but fighting is illegal except in the form of demonstrations or strikes. These days, the authorities have become unbearable with their brutality, hesitation and imbecility. It is possible that the resistance will naturally lead to their fall. However, I realised that despair is not a feeling, it\u2019s an excrement – a piece of waste, that of the failure of the revolution, but this unbearable feeling has the advantage of getting rid of the illusion, allowing me to applaud your challenge to fully acknowledge an incredible future…\u201d.<\/p>\n

9.33pm Ouled Jellaba, sur les traces de ses pas, je danse..<\/em>.<\/strong> (about 30′ \u2013 2016) \/ Rochdi Belgasmi<\/strong> (Tunisia) \/ Dance performance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Ouled Jellaba\u00a0\u00bb is a known figure in the world of popular arts in Tunisia but, paradoxically, little known among Tunisians. He appeared in the 20s in Bab Souika in Tunis and worked in the singing caf\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0Sallit Dziri\u00a0\u00bb. He was much demanded by the public of the medina, which ignored most of the time his sexual identity. He, and other transvestites dancers were no longer capable of practicing their art once women got the right to dance in public caf\u00e9, thanks to the resistance and women\u2019s liberation movement in Tunisia. Ouled Jellaba is a tribute to figures of folk dancers, less known or which have fallen into oblivion or have been discarded and rejected by the society, such as Ouled Jellaba.<\/p>\n

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Ouled Jellaba, sur les traces de ses pas, je danse…\/ Rochdi Belgasmi (Tunisie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 10.38pm A concert <\/strong>by the group Dr\u00f4les de Drames<\/em><\/strong> (France). For our hearts, they hold back the night from its wandering route…..<\/h3>\n

With Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jos\u00e9 dos Santos, R\u00e9my Chaillan & Fred Albertini<\/strong>. In the singular, the name of this group obviously reminds us of the film by Marcel Carn\u00e9 spiced up by the libertarian dialogues of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert. You might remember, for example, the tirade Billy delivers to Eva: \u00ab\u00a0You believe that there are things we\u2019re allowed to do and other things that we shouldn\u2019t do; it’s silly! Look, I kissed you the other day. Apparently this is something that shouldn\u2019t be done but since we did it, it means it can be done … and the things we\u2019ve done, why shouldn\u2019t we do them again if they made us happy, if they made you happy. \u00a0\u00bb It is with this kind of delightful reasoning that Instants Vid\u00e9o invited this gang of four again! To renew the pleasure. And since the current news seems to be a succession of dramas, let us pull out our weapons: poetry and humour.<\/p>\n

SATURDAY, NOVEMBRE 12 5.14pm (in the twilight) Ch\u0153ur Tac-Til<\/strong> <\/em>(Tac-Til Choir)\u00a0(50′ \u2013 2016) \/\u00a0Visually impaired vocal ensemble with multiple voices. (France) – Concert<\/h3>\n

with Mafalda Da Camara, M\u00e9lodie Duchesne, Gihane Elhassouni, Ch\u00e9rifa Harzallah, Ang\u00e9lique Huguenin, Franck Omer, Fran\u00e7ois Parra, Karine Porciero, Alex Querel, Bruno Raby, Natacha Muslera & the haptic robot<\/strong>. \u00ab\u00a0A choir of breaths and organic, liquid and gaseous voices. An ethereal, spectral and concrete choir that gives rise to semantic glitches. An amplified choir, which brushes the ears. A choir in the night, glimpsed from the corner of the eye.\u00a0\u00bb Tonight at dusk, Ch\u0153ur Tac-Til will present a concert where the listener is plunged into darkness. Ch\u0153ur Tac-Til was founded in 2012, by Natacha Muslera. Work is still in progress in the residence of the National Centre for Music Research (Centre national de recherche musicale – gmem-CNCM), in Marseille. At the residences, a system of writing through contact is collectively invented, These pieces are instantly interpreted by the sense of touch, using a haptic robot, which was created for this ensemble. A system of writing through contact is created within the group. It is multilingual (10 languages + invented) polyvocal, in constant modulation, ephemeral, barely written and is erased immediately. Based on a non-authoritarian principle, in each element that arises from the code, there is a pre-existing dimension of indeterminacy, leaving space for each interpreter to create. The choir works with the language (or absence of it), in its heart: a semantic, organic machine that does not cease to burst or split. The voices emit visions, prophecies; they read reality and transform clich\u00e9s. The tactile writing weaves a random story impregnated with immediate realities: struggles, events, phenomena, desires, sounds, dreams and excesses. Thanks to the collaboration with Charles Bascou<\/strong> (engineer-developer and musical assistant) and the technical assistance of J\u00e9r\u00f4me Decque<\/strong>, together with the robot. (Translation Juliette Lopez)<\/p>\n

3.29am Sitting and Smiling<\/strong> (240′) \/ Benjamin Bennett<\/strong> (USA)<\/h3>\n

Sitting and Smiling is a series of live web-streams<\/strong> in which I sit motionless and smile at the camera for 4-hour durations. This performance on YouTube channel went viral in 2015 and received mass media coverage, was live-streamed at MOCA Australia, and has received more than 1.5 million views. As of today I have completed 191 episodes. For this festival, I propose web-streaming this 4-hour performance from my studio in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

6.48am Grande Entr\u00e9e<\/em> <\/strong>(30′ \u2013 2016) by\u00a0Compagnie Gigacircus :\u00a0<\/strong>Gustavo Alvarez (Mexique), Lionel Camburet & Sylvie Marchand (France)<\/h3>\n

In North America, the Grand Entry<\/em> is a dance that allow all the participants to enter the space for the Pow Wow ritual and to open the social gathering. To dance or to die say the Rar\u00e0muris, to dance and not die. Together. The performance Grand Entry<\/em>, a set a actions supported by films, is making a transition to what Crees (Canada) and Rar\u00e0muris (Mexico) have been practicing at all time: the creation of a dance corps where everyone is gathering in a living circle. In the ritual area, the audience in movement together with the native dancers are producing an essential human vibrancy.<\/p>\n

Selected readings of Freud and Lacan<\/strong> from dusk (November,12 at 5.14pm) to dawn (November, 13 at 7.29am)<\/h3>\n

\u00ab\u00a0More than 90 high profile cultural, scientific, political and public personalities of the Marseilles region have accepted to come and read Freud and Lacan\u00a0\u2013 all night long! Short and spirited excerpts will allow us to discover \u2013 or rediscover \u2013 the language of the great psychoanalytic masters. For us, reading Freud and reading Lacan is an act of citizenship. It is all the more important today in a world where \u201cliving together\u201d is no longer self-evident. It is a civic act because psychoanalysis \u2013 to which we devote our lives \u2013 can no longer be the prerogative of psychoanalysts. The words of Freud and Lacan resonate with life: our private lives, our social lives, and the life of our city. They are words that resound with Civilization (Culture) and its discontents \u2013 just as Freud said in 1929. Following Freud and Lacan, psychoanalysis in the 21st century does not shrink from the real! It objects to a world without the real, without castration, without the impossible \u2013 \u201cNo praxis is more oriented towards that which, at the heart of experience, is the kernel of the real than psychoanalysis.\u201d Starting from this kernel of the real, reinventing a world can be possible with psychoanalysis. The standing night of Psychoanalysis, Video Art and Performance<\/strong> will take place within the framework of The 29th International Festival Les Instants Vid\u00e9os<\/em>, one of the most important art video festivals in Europe. Its theme this year is, \u201cState of Poetic Urgency\u201d. Not only do readings await us, but also video art, music, performances, and round table discussions on such themes as \u201cThe Gaze and the Voice\u201d and \u201cAre We Ever Poet Enough?\u201d, as well as a conference with G\u00e9rard Wacjman<\/strong>, psychoanalyst in Paris, member of the ECF and author of L\u2019Oeil absolu (Deno\u00ebl 2010), on \u201cThe Pornography of Horror<\/strong>\u201d. The standing night is open to all. Food and drink will be available on the premises. Come for a few hours, or stay all night for an incredible experience.\u00a0\u00bb Event coordinated by Herv\u00e9 Castanet, Pamela King and Dominique Pasco<\/strong>, psychoanalysts in Marseilles, members of the \u00c9cole de la Cause freudienne<\/strong> and the New Lacanian School<\/strong>. 1.Lacan, J., The Seminar, Book XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, (1964), tr. A. Sheridan, W.W. Norton, 1998, p. 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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