Les Subsistances, laboratoire de création artistique, spectacle et théatre à Lyon
Saison 2007/2008

on-situ / FR

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Presentation
Photos & Vidéos
Biography, cast and crew, thanks
Dates, duration, price

Free

3.4.5.6 april 08




Do you speak Gilbertese, Bamileke, Tagalog or Spanish? The WeekEnd will mark the start of a big Language Library at Les Subsistances. We will continue collecting languages every year, until hopefully one day we have all 6000 languages spoken by humans in the world. This “Library”, invented by On-situ, will be made of words, video images, sound bites, and key phrases in foreign languages collected from the WeekEnd’s visitors. It will be shown in big format on the walls of Les Subsistances for 4 days, then will become a tool available to Les Subsistances during the rest of the year.

"A smile, a frown. A tensing, a relaxation, a light movement. The muscles start moving and we get transported from joy to sadness, from listening to scepticism. The face speaks. An encoded language, seeded with messages, expressions. A non verbal language, an universal language.
Come and drop off your word, mute, into the on situ’s automatic photo booth. It will then fly off, be pronounced in silence, and be projected during 4 days on the walls of The Substistances."
on-situ