Faces and Unfaces

Fiction for an acrobat and his audience, 1999.
Duration 20mn

Artistic design: Magali Desbazeille
Sound Design : Siegfried Canto
Performer : Laurent Bienaimé

DeAbout what goes through the spectators’ minds while an acrobat…

Description

Images revealing the inner thoughts of a fictitious andience are projected on the performer’s body.
According to the thoughts revealed by the voices, the acrobat plays with the images. He can deform and reform them, throw them up in the air and catch them again. By adjusting the position of his body, the acrobat can make the images clear and visible, or fuzzy and invisible. The performer’s gestures are defined according to the images projected and the thoughts that those images represent. The result is situated between choreography and balancing art.

Circus act view

Producer: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains