In-situ video performance-installation, time delayed and real time imagery in a room at the hotel Le Lutétia in Paris, as part of the Fondation Cartier's Soirées Nomades and the "En Somme!" project by Marion Levy.

Artistic Design: Magali Desbazeille, in collaboration with Marion Levy
Performance: Andréa Sitter
Computer programming: Jérôme Tuncer

“ This place exists through all of the presences/past clients. How many people have slept here? How many clients were forgotten by the personnel? I will not sleep until I have matched the images, not until I have matched them so precisely that they are no longer visible…”

There she is, lying on the bed. She moves the video projector. She sweeps an image across the room, trying to match it 1 to 1. Clients who have slept here appear at a corner of the room, on a piece of furniture, their faces, gestures seem to be inscribed in the very walls of the room.

This is a memory-image of the place itself. In delayed imagery, images of clients entering the hotel disturbs the temporality. Today's clients are also part of the place, and will leave a little of themselves in the hotel, and keep a little of the hotel in their memories. The woman's face also appears real-time in the video image. She watches herself trying to go to sleep.

Matching the memory-image and the image of the present becomes essential to the peace of mind she needs to fall asleep.

Andréa + clients' faces in delayed imagery		Andréa and a waiter		Angle 1 to 1
Clients' faces in delayed imagery		Video projection 1 to 1, couple		Andréa moving the video projector
Documented on june 28, 2006

Thanks: N'nahahaudou Diavy, Thomas, Lilti, Xavier Michel, Chloé Réjon.

Producers and partners: Compagnie Didascalie, Fondation Cartier, Soirées Nomades Hors les Murs, Hôtel le Lutetia.

Image Match 1 and 2 are part of the choreographic project:
En Somme ! works in progress #1, #2, #3…

Concept and choreography: Marion Lévy; Staging participation: Kéa Ostovany;
Artist: Magali Desbazeille;
Texts: Fabrice Melquiot, with: Sandra Delgadillo, Marion Lévy, Fabrice Melquiot, Chloé Réjon, Régis Royer;
Photos: Jean Louis Tornato; Technical coordination: Joachim Olaya;
Scenographers: Stéfane Perraud and Julien Piessel; Artistic contribution: Blandine Delcroix; Scientific contribution: Maxime Elbaz.

En Somme! sprang from the insomniac mind of the choreographer Marion Lévy. It is the story of artists and doctors who developed a dialogue on sleep. At each session throughout 2006, artists, spectators, scientists and other participants on the project were invited to experience a moment in the creative process.
The final show is designed like a 90-minute sleep cycle that goes from falling asleep to waking up, and passes through the stages of drowsy sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep.
The project En Somme! was sponsored by the Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie de Paris (Paris public health care system) and by the Sleep Center at the Hôtel Dieu hospital, managed by Doctor Damien Léger. Production: Compagnie Didascalie.