Performance, 2008
Thierry Fournier (sound apparatus and stage direction) / Jean-François Robardet (sculpture and text)
Series of performances Outside Lectures
In Finland, young unemployed people elect to go to keep and breed reindeers in the tundra in order to find a job. Some of them freak out because of loneliness and hard conditions of climate and life and a tale is told that they commit suicide by having a walk naked in the snow, all alone at night, through the dark and frost outside.
Surrounded by a permanent Larsen mic activated by a performer, the expansed polystyrene sculpture becomes an acoustic metaphor of polar landscape and an architecture of wilderness, while the recording of the story is to be heard.
Frost can be performed by Emmanuelle Lafon (within the frame of the series Ouside Lectures), Thierry Fournier or Jean-François Robardet (as an autonomous performance). Related to: Outside lectures, Closed circuit, Foreign Office, The Right Distance, Ready Mixed, Residency, Sentinel. Photographs Frédéric Nauczyciel and Alexandre Nollet. See also the credits page.
