pour une ville étrangère (The boxes - Instruction for a foreign city »
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First production / Performance 3.4.5.6 april 08
Daniel Aschwanden and Peter Stamer, two Austrian visual artists and choreographers, will set camp in Lyon, in the district of La Guillotière. As “art craftsmen”, they will ask people of various linguistic origins to tell us about their life, to share words and stories. Thirty boxes will be given to locals and each of them will decorate the inside or his/her box, his/her universe, with photos, drawings, or legends. Each of them will then create with the help of the artists a story - their own or an invented story - which he/she will tell to people invited to enter the box… This experience was tried out last year in Beijing where they chose people from very different social backgrounds, and will be recreated in Lyon to illustrate a city populated by a number of inhabitants of many various geographic and linguistic origins.
"THE BOX
The box is used to create a meeting and link people who have never met before in the city. What is this box doing out in the street, and what happens in it? The “portable piece of architecture” creates a double show, both public and private.
Outside, passers-by gather. Inside, everyday life stops and gives way to an intimate moment: the host reveals his true self to his guest. A stroll & installation at La Guillotière and at Les Subsistances" Peter Stamer and Daniel Aschwanden
November & January 07 : 3 meetings with the locals of La Guillotière.
February 08: The “art craftsmen” will ring doorbells, organise meetings in not-for-profit organisations, schools, etc, and come to deliver their boxes. Each guest will make the inside of the box his/her own. He/She can imagine anything, speak in any language, sing, talk about himself or tell stories... He/She will be invited to attend workshops.
February & March 08: Meetings will take place at La Guillotière or at Les Subsistances (6-9 February, 3-8 March and 21-28 March). With the help of current art students, the artists offer the chance to meet again during workshops dedicated to creation inside the box and to building the story.
At La Guillotière, 29/30 March 08 from - 3pm to 5pm: The hosts and their boxes will be waiting for you in the streets and squares of the Guillotière district. They will ask passers-by if they want to enter their box and will tell them their stories.
At Les Subsistances, Ça Tchatche! WeekEnd 3.4.5.6 April 08:
> On 3 & 4 April 08, all 30 boxes and their owners will gather at Les Subsistances. The artists will then invite spectators to enter the boxes and listen to their story.
> On 5 & 6 April 08, the assembly of boxes will become an installation, a gigantic model of the private living conditions of Lyon’s inhabitants, in all its heterogeneousness and varied glory.
Biography
Daniel Aschwanden is a Swiss choreographer who lives in Vienna. He is an expert of contemporary dance, performance, media, and social and urban art. He has founded and organised the Dance / Performance Festival “Tanzsprache” and founded label “Bilderwerfer” in Vienna. From 1992 to 2001, he has created various solo and group performances showcased in Europe, the United States and South America. In 2004, he directed “Invisible” (installation / performance on the topic of art and disability), with 36 amateur actors. In 2005, he created “Framefreezeframe” (Vienna/Bratislava), in partnership with 30 guest performance artists for 40 days. He initiated and co-directed Absent Interfaces, a series of creative workshops in the fields of art and science on media and performance, and Chinese Whispers (with Peter Stamer, in Beijing).
Peter Stamer is an Austrian choreographer, curator and theoretician. From 1993 to 1998, he was the dance director of the National Theater in Mannheim. He also worked for the Ursula-Blickle International Foundation as an independent curator in charge of dance shows. In 2001, he became a curator of theoretical interventions for the Tanzquartier in Vienna. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance dance curator / dramaturg. As such, he has worked with Thomas Lehmen, Willi Dorner, Martin Nachbar and Claudia Bosse. He participated in Philip Gehmacher’s “Incubator” (first production shown at Les Subsistances, Les Intranquilles Festival 2005). Since 2005, with Daniel Aschwanden, he has been involved in the development of projects mixing contemporary dance and urban environment as well as in a series of creative workshops including “Chinese Whispers” in Beijing.
Cast and crew & thanks
Conception & realisation: Daniel Aschwanden and Peter Stamer Piloting of plan: Honorine Meunier in collaboration with Yamina Ait-Yahia Production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France.In partnership with the Alliance Française, Arche de Noé / Armée du salut, IFRA, Association Franco Hellénique, Galerie La Rage, Jardin Brin d’Guill, la Mission de coopération culturelle et les équipes territoriales du 3ème et 7ème arrondissements, Théâtre de l'Elysée, l’Ecole de Condé, le Lycée de Charlieu, le Comptoir Général d’Emballage. With the help of: FIACRE / Région Rhône-Alpes.
Dates
Thursday 3, Friday 4, Saturday 5, Sunday 6 april 08
