Puppets_dossier-artistique_2015_Eng ( pdf 2

Puppets_dossier-artistique_2015_Eng ( pdf 2

global_projet: @
_Le Clair Obscur intends to explore problems linked to the question of the relationship between Man and Machine,
specifically how Man, his thinking, his social organization, his modes of action and interaction are modified by his
relationships to the computer and to the internet. These modifications are experienced on several levels, from the
worldly to the social, and also include more intimate levels, biological and neuronal.
_@ attempts to problematize our dependent relationships to the web and to technology :
- what mutation of society is triggered by digital technology?
- what mutation happens in our bodies, in our synaptic networks?
_@ is a research piece, a work in progress over several years which is presented in several different forms and
modules: audiovisual pieces, dance/ digital arts, web‑theatre, performances, installations, laboratories, workshops,
lectures, participative workshops, etc ...
_All these modules incorporate the global architecture of the project, which, like all open questions, answer each
other on several different levels.
_The complete form of @ will be executed in a laid-out spectator’s pathway/ journey which will include all the
different modules and forms.
_Each module explores a level of interaction between Man and Machine and can exist and be shown
independently of the others.
#5@|°PE5
#OPENLASE
Interactive installation intrinsically
linking, tracking, laser and acoustic
waves.
(creation November 2012)
A web-theare
performance on
virtual flesh,
after Sluts by Dennis
Cooper
(2011-2013).
@.1: PR•|•g
(dance/digital arts)
@.3:Pu_p3ts
(dance/digital arts)
Performance about
digitizing and the
disappearance of bodies
(creation April 2011)
An experiment with
computer-assisted
dance
(creation 2012-2014).
@.2:
SleEp1nGBe@#/Ty
(installation/performance)
Sleeping Beauty v 2.0
or the brain :
epicenter of the
networks
(creation April 2012)
#D@T@W@||
Interactive video
installations based on
generative codes.
(creation October 2011)
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@.3:PU_P3TS
Conception/ Space/ Coordination/ Lighting:
Frédéric DESLIAS
Conception/ Audiovisual creation:
Fabrice PLANQUETTE
Video Creation:
NOHISTA
Performers:
Lucia MENDOZA & Julien BÉZY
Choreography:
Lucia MENDOZA & Julien BÉZY & “Yum” KEIKO TAKAYAMA
Exterior eye:
Christine CARADEC
Software/ Hardware development:
Olivier GUILLERMINET // Fabrice PLANQUETTE // Armand AHMADI
Light management:
Simon DESPLEBIN
Production: Le Clair Obscur
Coproductions: Relais Culturel Régional 2angles, Gare au Théâtre de Vitry-sur-Seine, la Ménagerie
de verre.
Other Support: Le Cargö – SMAC de Caen, L’école supérieure d’arts et médias de Caen –
Cherbourg, Les Ateliers Intermédiaires CCN de Caen/ Basse Normandie, la Comédie de Caen –
Centre Dramatique National de Normandie, le Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains – scène
conventionnée pour les écritures numériques, le Centre national de la danse.
Le Clair Obscur is a company registered in the Basse-Normandie region, and is supported also by
the General Council of Calvados, the city of Caen and l’Odia Normandie.
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In its quest for total art, Le Clair Obscur continues its research on synesthesis and the cognitive fields, by the interaction/
synchronization of multimedia tools and the body, questioning the place of the being, the human being, onstage, in his
environment – and in a digital environment which is too much for him.
To go farther, we seek as yet undiscovered modes of communication between the computer and the actor/ dancer, which
would replace hearing and seeing when approaching the tangible.
The myo-stimulators (which are Sportelec© electro-muscular stimulators) may open a new experimental field in the
exploration of relationships between the body/ dance/ technology: in this case it might literally relay, traversed by sound,
in the same fashion as it does image. These stimulators could increase the level of precision in the interaction between
the dancer and his environment, but not necessarily using the brain – the process would drive data directly to his
muscles.
The principle is not exclusive, it is a supplementary tool which does not imply that the bodies connected are passive
bodies. It is however our starting point.
A dance/ digital arts performance with connected bodies
PU_P3TS, or PUPPETS, is a performance which presents an augmented nervous system, in a work which touches on
muscle, machine, on an organic, intrinsic, digital whole ...
The aesthetic framework for the performance has been laid out, requiring impulses, nerve, and the need to constantly
push back our limits. These communication interfaces explore in depth the limits of our bodies and the ambiguous
relationships which the contemporary individual has with his digital environment: are we exponential or enslaved bodies?
After @.1:Prologue where a crazed machine digitizes to such a degree that a body disappears.
After @.2: SleepingBeauty, where in an absolute stasis, we critically change the role of the body to a simple, sensitive
interface at the center of a web 2.0 structure.
Here the bodies awaken, become electric, return to life, a different kind of life.
But as the work progresses we do not know who controls whom: if the dancer is the marionette being stimulated, or if he
has taken over the structure and is instead interpreting the signals and controlling them. PU_P3TS, in stages, plays with
this back-and-forth, seeking to thwart this duality.
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The Structure
The dancers lie on the floor. The image as projected in the video is relayed to the audience via a mirror hung at a 45°
angle. In the mirror we see the bodies moving as if freed from the laws of gravity, in a three-dimensional video structure,
as if inscribed on a white canvas like the anatomy tableaux of the Renaissance painters, a force field of symmetry
created in the organization of the bodies and the trajectories of the dancers.
It is a dance/ multimedia performance, but we are also working in an improbable and troubling laboratory where they
experiment on the bodies of actors/ dancers/ human guinea pigs.
Stimulators
Animated by impulses generated by the stimulators, the dancers add to them, interpreting the muscular contractions with
their own movements based on a choreographic score. So they are not marionnettes but dancers playing with this very
ambiguity and with what they are feeling.
There is a sort of complicity which is established little by little between Man and the computer – going as far as
possession: on one hand the ecstatic body reclaims its rights in a primitive dance, and on the other, the body freed of its
conscience relearns movement, in a different kind of trance between his “self” and the media machine.
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TEASER
http://www.leclairobscur.net/#3-pupp3ts
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CALENDAR OF CREATION:
2012: Work in progress
October 2012
- Residency at the Cargö (SMAC of Caen)
- Residencies at the Ateliers Intermédiaires (Caen)
- Residency at the ésam (Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg)
November 3, 2012
Presentation under the auspices of the Nordik Impakt Festival (Caen)
+ Carte Blanche to Le Clair Obscur at ésam* (with the #OPENLASE and #DATAWALL projects)
December 12, 2012
Presentation under the auspices of the OSOSPHERE Festival (Strasbourg)
+ Presentation in diptych with the @.2:SleepingBeauty Project
2013: Work in progress
February 2013
Residency + End of Project at 2angles (Flers)
April 2013
Residency at the Halle aux Granges/ the CDN de Caen.
May 23, 2013
Presentation at the MAL de LAON
July 4, 5, 6, 2013
Festival “We are not going to Avignon” (Vitry/Seine)
September 27, 2013
Festival Souterrain porte VII (TOTEM - Nancy)
2014: Creation
January 6- 17, 2014
Residencies at the Ménagerie de verre (Paris) and at the Centre national de la danse (Pantin)
March 25- 29, 2014
Festival “Strange Cargo” at the Ménagerie de verre (Paris)
+ Presentation in diptych with the @.2:SleepingBeauty Project
April 28- May 10, 2014
Residency at the Centre des Arts d’Enghien les Bains
June 20, 2014
CREATION - Festival Les Bains Numériques at the Centre des Arts d’Enghien les Bains
October 27, 2014
Festival Avis de grand frais ! at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen
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LE CLAIR OBSCUR:
Since its inception the company has chosen pluridisciplinary work . It is based at the Ateliers Intermédiaires in
Caen, bringing together artists from the visual arts, the digital and acoustic arts, dancers and actors who
experience it all onstage, in the horizontal mode. And the performing arts “product” is freed from all its labels.
The experiment began in 2001 at the Universite of Performing Arts of Caen, with a first creation, Entre Intérieurs,
based on Maeterlinck’s Les Aveugles. It was remarked upon by the CDN de Normandie, then by the Workcenter of
Jerzy Grotowski (Pontedera - Italy). The CDN - Comédie de Caen followed the company from 2004 to 2006 with
training, then Laboratories.
A first attempt was made: Panser/Agir – 1st attempt – 12 sorts des ramas. This Laboratory set up an exchange
between those in attendance at La Boussole (a center for daytime hosting of the homeless in Caen) and the team,
using writing, video testimony and active and collective participation onstage in a theatre/ multimedia structure. Two
of the attendees, employed by the company would then be followed until they rejoined society.
Since 2006 le Clair-Obscur has worked on small experimental and multimedia scenic forms.
Three Prototypes – specific performances were created, based on the text MANQUE by Sarah Kane: ORATORIO,
FAKE and HERMSELF.
This work was then successively accompanied by the D.M.D.T.S. (Aide à la maquette) and the CDN of Normandie;
La Ferme du Buisson (in coproduction for Labomatics Théâtres 2007 and 2008); the CCN de Caen BasseNormandie (in the accueil studio program - 18H60); La Tannerie (Barjols-83). The different modules fused in 2008
for the creation of MANQUE (SARAH KANE) - ORATORIO ÉLECTRONIQUE at the Ferme du Buisson.
At the same time, from 2007 to 2010, HERMSELF benefited from residencies at the Tannerie (Barjols), at the CDN
of Normandie, at the CCN of Caen/Basse Normandie, at the Panta Théâtre (Caen) and at the ÉSAM (Caen).
It was also presented in stages at the Panta, at the ésam (Caen), then at the Colombier in Bagnolet in November,
2009.
HERMSELF was awarded the Dance and New Technology Grand Prize at the LES BAINS NUMERIQUES
FESTIVAL in 2010 and was granted residencies and co-productions at the Centre des Arts in Enghien-les-Bains
as well as at [Ars]Numerica/ Montbelliard and received production support from DICREAM.
The final version of HERMSELF was presented at the Centre des Arts in Enghien-les-Bains on November 18,
2011.
@, the new modular works project of the collective (2011/2013) examines the place of the body in the era of the
internet and of everything digital. Co-produced by the Ménagerie de Verre and by the ODACC in 2011, it received
aide à la maquette from DICRéAM in 2010 and was hosted in residency at the Chartreuse (CNES Villeneuve-lesAvignons).
@.1:Prolog is presented at the Ménagerie de verre, as part of the Étrange Cargo Festival in March 2011, then in
Caen in the Nordik Impakt Festival in October, 2011.
@.2:SleepingBeauty was created in April 2012 for the ]Interstice[ Festival in Caen, and was also hosted by the
OSOSPHERE Festival (Strasbourg) in December 2012.
@.3:PU_PETS, presented as a prototype at a “Carte Blanche” at the ESAM for Nordik Impakt 2012 and was also
hosted by the OSOSPHERE Festival (Strasbourg) in December 2012, and continued towards its creation in 2013
and 2014.
LE CLAIR-OBSCUR IS A COMPANY REGISTERED IN THE BASSE-NORMANDIE REGION AND
IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF CALVADOS, THE CITY OF CAEN, AND
L’ODIA NORMANDIE.
(more information: http://www.leclairobscur.net)
Credits :
Page 4 : 2013 - @.3:Pu_p3ts (prototype) with Lucia Mendoza - Photographer : Thierry Depagne
Page 5 : 2013 - @.3:Pu_p3ts (prototype) with Lucia Mendoza and Julien Bézy - Photographer : Thierry Tiko and Alban Van Wassenhove
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BIOS :
Frédéric Deslias :: director :: musician
http://leclairobscur.net
He was born in 1978. After studying electronics he attended the University of Caen in the Performing Arts department and
founded Le Clair Obscur which he has directed since 2002. He worked in both theatre and dance as a composer and acoustic
creator, for David Bobée, Eric Lacascade, Héla Fatoumi & Eric Lamoureu and Médéric Legros ... he also created several
soundtracks for film and created several musical projects with the collective Purée Noire.
Trained in the digital arts and programming under MAX/MSP, his research soon moved toward interactive installations and
sensitive pathways: Décadrage 2009 and 2010 at the Beaux Arts Museum in Caen – Interactive Route and Remixes in situ, in
video tableaux. HERMSELF was awarded the Dance and New Technologies Grand Prize at the Les Bains Numériques Festival
2010. He has also created musical therapy multimedia installations to develop the senses of autistic patients.
Fabrice Planquette :: acoustic creation :: programming
http://pan-etc.net/
Along with his many experimental musical projects, FP also participates in open collaborations in the stage arts, in acoustic
poetry, installations and video. He has also participated in many creations by theatre and dance companies since 1997. He was
the recipient of a grant for the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan) in 2006. And beginning in 2007, he has invited other artists to join
him in the A.lter S.essio group to create a series of performative works based on the tight relationship of body/ image/ sound.
NOHISTA / Bruno Ribeiro :: Audiovisual Artist :: http://www.nohista.org/
Bruno Ribeiro, aka Nohista, is an audiovisual artist. Considering hearing and eyesight as a single sense, he plays with images
on a sampler as if it were a musical instrument. In his audiovisual creations, his principal themes are perception and illusion,
creating sensitive, immersive performances. A director, graphic artist and live performer, NOHISTA is also a member of the VATAK label.
Yum Keiko Takayama :: choreography :: interpretation
Having studied ballet, contemporary dance and butoh, she began creating solo performance pieces while also participating in
interdisciplinary collective projects (dance, theatre, photography). As a member of the Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club (a neobutoh company), she performed in all their pieces on tour, from 2000 to 2007 (visiting Japan, South Korea, France, the United
States, Canada and Chile). Her solo performances were conceived in non-theatrical spaces with room for improvization especially
when they are presented in galleries. Since 2007, she has been a member of the A.lter S.essio group as a choreographer, dancer
and costume designer. She also teaches workshops open to all audiences.
Julien Bézy :: choreography :: interpretation
Having studied at the Académie Internationale de la Danse under Pierre-Yves Aubin and Mey-Ling Bisogno, Julien Bézy attended
the Toulouse conservatory to specialize in contemporary dance. At the same time he studied psychology and the philosophy of
art at the University of Toulouse le Mirail. He continued training at the IALS in Rome and at The Place in London. He continues to
train regularly in ballet with Wayne Byars and Andreï Glegolski. As a dancer, he has performed in, among others Quand je ferme
les yeux by Frédéric Jolivet, Jazz Ethnique by Georgette Kala-Lobe or Liaison by Stephane Loras. He has also been a jazz soloist
with Eric Castry, and is currently a member of the Ariel et Furie theatre company under the direction of Volchitza Cabrini. Having
earned his state teaching diploma in contempoary dance at the CND, he teaches at the Studio Harmonic, the Conservatory in
Gagny and at the ADASE. As a choreographer, he is currently collaborating with the Berlin-based director and photographer Louis
Vignat on the Sneezin’ project.
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CONTACT
Le Clair Obscur
Address: 82, rue de la Seine - 14 000 Caen
FRANCE
Artistic and technical contact:
Frédéric Deslias
[email protected]
+33 (0)6 80 57 38 37
Administration contact, Les Indépendances
Mathieu Hillereau
[email protected]
+33 (0)1 43 38 23 71
Florence Bourgeon
[email protected]
+33 (0)6 09 56 44 24
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