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Collectif Geste
5 performances-first productions

What are the collectives of Les Subsistances ?
Nothing really collective... only the proposal we submitted to several artists to work on the same themes and to present their performance during the Creative WeekEnds. Following Strip Tease and Les Têtes coupées by Robert Olen Butler, we have asked a new group of artists to create a show based on Vilèm Flusser’s Les gestes*. We asked them to create a free variation on this zany summary of a philosophical deconstruction of our everyday lives. This aimed to invent with them new outlooks on our daily life, taking a few daily activities: shooting films, listening to music, shaving...
*Hors Commerce Publishers - 1999.

They say...
“A physical act is an act because it represents something, because this gesture is designed to make sense of something”. Vilèm Flusser.

“The act of flicking through a book’s pages:
It represents the freedom of letting chance play a role. I am talking about the act of flicking through pages. When you let pages of a book run freely through your fingers, it is in the hope of stopping by chance on something that will allow you to unravel, from a single piece that sticks out, the story of the book.”

Background
Vilèm Flusser (1920-1991) was a philosopher and a writer. He started a long "itinerancy" from Prague: first through Sao Paulo in 1940, where he wrote a good part of his oeuvre. His presence has contributed to the development of a hub of intellectuals and artists who came from all around the world to meet him. The publication of his books, Towards a philosophy of photography and The Universe of Technical Images (1985), quickly brought him international recognition. These books are now considered as part of the basis for modern thinking.

19, 20, 21 janvier 2007

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ANGELA LAURIER

Angela Laurier is an acrobat and a contortionist. She has worked for Cirque du Trottoir, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque du Tonnerre et Cirque Gosh. She has been working for two years with François Verret and has started on a solo work that examines art through biographical data.