PERFORMANCE
Empreintes et passages à l’acte

TAKING ACTIONS, LEAVING MARKS

Some contemporary myths taught us that performance leaves solely in our memory the track of an indistinct recollection which stretches out then fades away with time, to end up transforming and travelling in an interstice torn between fiction and reality. The extraction of a few pieces, clues and residues of these episodes in action, makes a conceptual and plastic journey happen on the verge of truth, providing new faces to these works of art which burnt over time. How to better decipher these mysteries –last tracks of these “bone and flesh” equations, than through the essential presence and valued testimony of the artist?

Taking actions, Leaving marks defines a project that examines the evolution of a performance as much in its live production as in its residual resurrection. It seeks to present several projects that reveal the underlying thoughts and analysis of several young artists confronted with their own readings: is performance a prepared and detailed hypothesis, run according to a script, a synopsis, a story-board, a note, a sketch, a location, a brand, a protocol – preparatory work, inherent to the artwork? Does the realisation of the action in the here and now confirm these initial hypotheses? What remains of these traces? What value does the artist accord to them? Do these fragments enable one to make a true and real reading of the action or just a fictional interpretation of these moments that have now become part of the past?

Each artist is invited to follow a protocol in two stages based on the fragments and the remainders of a past performance. From these few embers still alive and smouldering, a piece of work and a performance will be produced at the main intersection of this exhibition, thus becoming the agora of a temple dedicated to contemporary art forms and young creation within the field of performance, revealing the artistic canvas woven by the artist throughout his own work.

Situated on the fifth floor of the Friche la Belle de Mai, these landscapes of procedural subtleties and traditional colours do not exist without reminding us of the explosion of the frontiers and the vision of a world in constant mutation, specific to Atelier Van Lieshout. From here, the exhibition will impose itself as a cartography – an archipelago in movement where this quest is centred around the body and gestures of the artist, an approach to performance under high tension and in “all its aspects” that will reveal the primary codes which lead to these aesthetic identities so particular to performance, metaphors of the plurality and diversity so very present within the territory of Marseille.

This exhibition constitutes an experience around this medium and attempts to draw to our attention the work in the wings and with the staging, just as much to the flesh and living material in a specific situation, a work of art and thought that never ceases to change and to evolve as time passes.

AGENDA
CYCLE I
ROMINA DE NOVELLIS
Jeudi 4 juillet 2013, 20h30

NICOLAS FENOUILLAT
Jeudi 4 juillet 2013, 21h30
IGOR GRUBIĆ
Samedi 6 juillet 2013, 16h
DARREN ROSHIER
Samedi 6 juillet 2013, 17h

ANNA BYSKOV
Samedi 6 juillet 2013, 18h
NICOLAS PUYJALON
Dimanche 7 juillet 2013, 15h30
CYCLE II
LOUISE HERVÉ & CHLOÉ MAILLET
Vendredi30 août 2013, 19h
DAPHNÉ NAVARRE
Samedi 31 août 2013, 16h
NOÉ SOULIER
Samedi 31 août 2013, 18h
NATSUKO UCHINO
Dimanche 1er septembre 2013, 14h
CYCLE III
MARCELLINE DELBECQ
Vendredi 13 septembre 2013, 19h
HSIA FEI CHANG
Vendredi13 septembre 2013, 20h
F2/ FRANCINE FLANDRIN
Dimanche 15 septembre 2013, 16h