A modular performance project under the artistic direction of
Benoît Lachambre
“ Our project makes the coexistence of different modules,
designed by various artists, possible. We accept the challenge of questioning
our artistic convictions through the confrontation of our respective visions.
We seek to explore the idea of encounter, its mobility, and that which can come
out of such an exchange. The project is not a dance performance, nor a
representation, but above all a choreographic event to be lived and experienced
by the performers as well as by the public. Over the course of the evening, we
invite the spectator to build his/her own experience as an independent observer
and creator in his/her own right. There is freedom of choice in the order of
discovery for each proposition, the duration and intensity of attention as well
as the point of view to be adopted.”
Benoît Lachambre and his co-creators
The Installation and Intervention Modules and their authors
L’œuf -Martin Bélanger
Un drap -joe hiscott
Big B -Benoît Lachambre
La table réseau *- Benoît Lachambre et David Kilburn
Backrooms - Jorge Leon
Pay Here
Le premier VRAI clone humain-
Sheila Ribeiro
Les Maris Honnêtes / Marions Nettes
La forêt transparente
The band
La danse
Le volume ingérable #1 -
Pierre Rubio
Put Your Head Off - Isabelle Schad
L’appartement… Nous sommes tous des prostitué(e)s *- George Stamos
Le Corridor - Julie Andrée T.
* The construction of these modules uses elements conceived
by the visual artist Lawrence Malstaf, created originally for events outside
100 Rencontres : The Water fait mal by Benoît Lachambre ; the Sauna
in Exile watertub by Lawrence Malstaf.
L’Œuf
The module l’Œuf is a device that reorganises the
physical proximity of one person meeting another. L'Œuf is sheltered by
a tent, an extension of it that can act as a crossroads, a waiting room or a
boudoir. The person living in l'Œuf is in a particular frame of mind: he
swaps a certain state, a certain point of view, with the other, almost like a
soothsayer. - Martin Bélanger
Un drap
Virtuality, reality and interpretation blend invisible events
in this encounter between the spectator’s ‘self’ and the superimposed ‘selves’
induced by the visual projection of different bodies, imaginary spaces,
subliminal references on life and death as well as by the resonances on the
body engendered by all these things. - joe hiscott
Big B
When does a spectator become one? Where and how does he
position himself in relation to the object, drastically modify a connection and
his accessibility to the dynamics of communication? Big B links a device
to the performer, creating a dependence and attaching itself to him like an
ambiguous kidney. The physical link is technological, the object a poetic
prosthesis. - Benoît Lachambre
La table réseau
A place of public exchange, table réseau provides an
opportunity for listening to the overall sound environment differently. The
audience is invited to exchange and compose collectively within a modified
environment for harnessing sound. - David Kilburn & Benoît Lachambre
Backrooms
The photographs I offered Benoît when he invited me to
participate in his project were done in backrooms/dark rooms. These places are
arranged so that, in the dark and generally in an anonymous way, the bodies
embrace each other, sex takes place. 100 rencontres, places of
encounters. What encounters? These images projected in a slide show will
perhaps evoke something of the body in play here. - Jorge Leon
Pay Here and Le premier VRAI clone humain
Believe, wish, wait or just be a VIP at Pay Here.
Le premier VRAI clone humain is a part funny, part melancholic
installation playing with the issue of cloning. - Sheila Ribeiro
Les Maris Honnêtes / Marions Nettes. La forêt transparente. The
band. La danse. Le volume ingérable #1
Through these modules of concepts, performances and plays, the
question is posed of identity in encounters. Rejecting what you believe you
have to do or be, the performer offers an identity that can always be regained,
redone, pursued, one that is dizzyingly mobile rather than a crystallised mask
that is comfortably immobile and reassuringly steadfast. - Pierre Rubio
Put Your Head Off
This work moves to define the gaps in the hidden and the seen
scenes of the projected and real body, interrogating along the way the imagined
and the real, the real and the identified. - Isabelle Schad
L’appartement… Nous sommes tous des prostitué(e)s
An apartment or a body are generally considered to be private
spaces, separate from public or commercial places. L’appartement
questions this separation. Voyeurism, interaction, references to physical
modifications and s(t)imulation are convened to suggest the idea of a living
skin, a house, that could equally well be open markets or spaces destined for
transactions and changes in ownership. - George Stamos
Le corridor
The corridor is a space of displacement, of transition. Its
primary function is to direct the person passing through towards another place.
Le corridor here is a passing place with no way out. A meeting place
where sound and image, history and everyday life cohabit. To leave you have to
retrace your own steps, your own journey, your own little story. - Julie Andrée
T.
Sound
Each module generates sounds of its own in the performance
space. For 100 rencontres, I wanted to create a general sound
environment in which the modules participate whilst retaining their
singularity. My approach is for people - every spectator, every performer - to
meet through sound. - Laurent Maslé
Seek, take and move sound to engender listening. Create and
articulate spaces of sound that favour the intimacy of a meeting. Through sound
accompany each person on his trajectory towards the new, i.e. the other. -
David Kilburn
Lighting
The lighting offers a two-fold relationship with the place: an
opportunity for exploring the juxtaposition of objective lighting for the space
welcoming us and subjective lighting for the performance modules. This two-fold
relationship of light in the globality of the space suggests a meeting place in
itself, coherent and autonomous. - Jean Jauvin
