Series of 7 performances, 2008
Original title : Conférences du dehors
The notion of access (to wealth, borders, work, education, imagery and words) is nowadays permeating all contemporary situations, be they private or collective. Generalized liberalism no longer permits us to stay outside the arena of its logic, and one of the paradoxical consequences of this “world with no outside” is that the very notion of “outside” has become ubiquitous.
Gatering several invited artists and a single performer investing several status, Outside Lectures explores this notion on an intentionally reduced scale,, thru a dark, noisy, electric and burlesque proposition .
This “theatre of operations” is part and parcel of an overall approach questioning and challenging the relations between writing, plastic arts and types of performance: notion of device and arrangement, involvement of the spectator, critical choice of performance venues.
The series Outside Lectures is composed by the performances: Closed circuit, Foreign Office (guest author David Beytelmann), The Right Distance (guest author Noëlle Renaude), Ready mixed (with Esther Salmona), Residency, Frost (with Jean-François Robardet), Sentinel (guest artist Juliette Fontaine). See also the photographs of the performances, and the critical texts (in french) written by Franck Bauchard, Jean Cristofol, Juliette Fontaine, Jean-François Robardet, Noëlle Renaude, Emmanuelle Lafon and Esther Salmona.
Video extract (performance Closed Circuit)
