apologies for cross-postings
Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance have the
pleasure of inviting you to discover B(earth) by painter and video
artist Ludivine Allegue (France), and extended vocalist and live artist
Yvon Bonenfant (UK/Canada).
B(earth) bridges extended voice and painting. The dialogue begins with
the physical gesture that animates the vocal body as well as –
simultaneously - the refined and articulate gesture of the body of the
painter. From this place the installation takes us on a voyage through
breath, corporeality, the warp and weft of the fibres of the canvas,
through encounters between colours and timbres, and above all, vocal
and painted texture.
A unique image is divided in two panels of equal dimensions : two
painted worlds meeting through voice and light , so that a sense
of breath can circulate through both space and image . B(earth) is
the held-back shout that can cut beings in two, the voice
of uncried tears - yet also the emergence of an individual
into the mystery of the encounter with other human hearts.
This piece is the fruit of a collaboration among disciplines and
institutions, and was financed by project partners including the CNRS,
France, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the University of
Winchester, and the National Conservatory of Art at Limoges-Aubusson
(Ministère de la Culture).
The artists have developed an educational programme that sits alongside
the work, and that can be used to explore the relationships between the
senses of touch, sight and sound, and relate these to both live and
performed contexts, through engagement with tactility in painting,
voice and body.
A video work that re-visits B(earth)’s engagement with painting, light,
canvas fabric, and voice was filmed during the piece's exhibition at
the Talmart Gallery, Paris, from 15 May to 1 June 2008.
Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance will offer
a preview of this video work during the conference.
More info on:
http://cci.glam.ac.uk/events/2008/jun/26/cultures-translation-
adaptation-film-and-performan/
Dr. Ludivine Allegue
Institut d'Esthétique des Arts et Technologies
UMR 8153 CNRS-PARIS 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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