Rue Barbe-Torte

An ambulatory urban performance for two performers. Original work for “mothership Union”, Plug-in, ESBANM, Nantes, ELIA 2010. Performance duration : 25 mn.

Artistic design and performance : Siegfried Canto, Magali Desbazeille, Cie ASAP

À propos de la mémoire d’une ville, des usages d’une époque et des certitudes About a city’s memory, the customs of an era and the certainties that keep us from seeing the present differently…

Description

Two performers walk through the streets at night. Each of them carries a portable handheld video and sound projector. They project images directly on the walls of the city, fictitious images mixed with images of the buildings themselves. With a detached viewpoint, the performance places the public in the year 2150. The performers tell a fictional autobiography that describes what the city and customs were like during the period from 1945 to 2010.

Extract of the text heard in voiceover:

– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, people believed in ecology.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, cellulite was not recycled into energy.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, Asian men had started looking for women elsewhere.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, the price of women skyrocketed, because of supply and demand.
– In 2150, polyandry had become mandatory.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, reality, after having increased, decreased.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, my grandmother died and I got her war journals, written in the Nantes region, between Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, I had certainties that corresponded to my incompetence.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, I had the naiveté of my own violence.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, Apartments were starting to be equipped with WiFi, the first wireless Internet system. PS: Internet was the predecessor of Hypernet.
– In 2010, when I was 17 years old, people tried to reassure themselves as best they could.
In 2050, when I was 57 years old, I told myself that I should have acted; but there was still time, whew.
In 2050, when I was 57 years old, I said to myself: Now !

Producer: plug-In project

Thanks to
ESBANM’s students : Pauline Aurousseau,
Quentin Bordes, Florentine Busson, Adrien Cruellas

Plug-in research programm members :
Philippe-André Béna, Georges-Albert Kisfaludi,
Alexandre Mairet, Véronique Verstraete,

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