"LES ORIGINES D’UN MONDE, UNE ILE"
TURAK
Exhibition / Installation
25, 26, 27 & 28 March 2010
From the foundation of the world to the company’s multiple origins, Turak tells the story, through an installation, of a cobbled up form of eroticism: masks, puppets and objects exist in their relationship with nudity and small unimportant mechanisms unveil parts of the body. What if Les Origines d’un monde presented bodies as varied landscapes? What if out of the folds of the skin, little figures and characters were born, like the inhabitants of a microcosmic island?
Catch a glimpse of the origins of a world, discover... Small heads hide within the many folds, turns and corners of the female anatomy. The body is a landscape, a theatre, a puppet theatre which toys with scale and unveils a population. Each body is an island. Let’s invent little stratagems to reveal ourselves, between friends or in company.
Parcours
Michel Laubu discovers Turakie in 1985. He is the official guide, ethnologist, linguist, and archaeologist of the country, while remaining an artist throughout. He invented a theatre mixing puppeteering and a theatre of objects. For a few years now, Michel Laubu has been examining the renewal of theatrical devices. He stated his wish to develop new fields of writing, new tools that make it possible for the theatre of objects to keep its intimate quality while developing forms with a greater scope. He also examined the role of the actor in this type of theatre. What is of particular interest to Michel Laubu in the work with puppets is the outline of the puppeteer standing behind, the shadow of the person who holds and moves the object. Projects created by Le Turak at Les Subsistances: A notre insu (Dec 08), Grammaire des oncles et apprentissage du silence (first production with Rodolphe Burger - April 08), Stirpt’iz (Jan 05), Intimae (Nov 06), etc.
Cast and Crew
Photos, Drawings and Project Design by Michel Laubu and Emili Hufnagel.
With Caroline Cybula, Géraldine Zanlonghi and other anonymous artists.
Our thanks go to them for their generosity, their humour and their commitment to the project.
Video by Maximilien Dumesnil. A
rranged by Sofi Arto with the help of the building workshop at Le Volcan.
Masks by Emmeline Beaussier.
Many thanks to our friends, who continue to follow our madcap projects: Le Bateau Feu / Scène nationale Dunkerque, le Volcan / Le Havre Scène nationale and Les Subsistances in Lyon.
Turak Théâtre is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, DRAC Rhône-Alpes and Région Rhône-Alpes. Turak is also funded by Ville de Lyon and regularly receives support from Culturesfrance for its foreign projects.
