10 > 30.03.18
CN D Pantin
In the beginning there was a choreography work by Volmir Cordeiro, L’œil la bouche et le reste. Or rather not: in the beginning there were images, words, faces that wove this work’s imaginary world; an underlying weave of works that interacted with each other – videos or films joined together by meaningful links, by accents, by echoes, correspondences and intensities. Accompanied by Marcela Santander Corvalán and Margot Videcoq, Volmir Cordeiro transformed the images, voices and motifs that made up this fragmentary world into an exhibition that both extended and went beyond the work. These works suggest critical, political and aesthetic lines of thought: a constellation built around what one might call, following on from Gilles Deleuze, ‘facialisation’: ‘The face digs the hole that subjectification needs in order to break through,’ he wrote. What Joséphine Baker, Samuel Beckett, Valeska Gert and Latifa Laâbissi have in common is a certain idea of the enigma of the face – what it articulates and what it expresses: its expressive power and its power to resist. ‘The face is a map’, wrote Deleuze. The eye, the mouth (and the rest) are arranged on this spatial, temporal, physical map, which has been prominent since the beginning of the 20th century and right up to the present day: these holes through which reality emerges, through which the subject receives and gives off signs, fragments of identity, registers of expressiveness. This exhibition also recounts another history of the body: history with minority overtones that can be deciphered on the margins, and a form of murmuring, harrowing, contorted, hilarious community, whose songs, cries, smiles and murmurs reverberate with us.
Volmir Cordeiro, a performer (with Xavier Le Roy, Lia Rodrigues, Laurent Pichaud, Emmanuelle Huynh and Vera Mantero), uses the body as a place of intermixing, the vehicle for disturbing expressiveness. After a first series of solos (Ciel, Inês and Rue), he created L’oeil la bouche et le reste in 2017. He is also a researcher, author of a thesis on marginal figures in contemporary dance.
A performer, notably for Dominique Brun and Faustin Linyekula, Marcela Santander Corvalán also collaborates with Mickaël Phelippeau. After Époque, a duo with Volmir Cordeiro exploring the expressionist imagination, she presented Disparue during the DañsFabrik 2016 festival. In 2017, she created MASH with the artist Annamaria Ajmone, a piece that combined the choreographic languages that they both embodied.
After working as Latifa Laâbissi’s administrator and co-director of the Extension Sauvage festival, Margot Videcoq today divides her time between accompanying artists’ projects (Volmir Cordeiro, Grand Magasin, Pauline Le Boulba, Martine Pisani) and programming shows and performances. With David Sanson, she is the curator of the Biennale du Divers.
Movies and film clips presented in the exhibition
Galerie
Joséphine Baker
La Sirène des Tropiques, 1927
La Meme, 1927
La Plantation, 1927
Le pompier des Folies Bergères, 1928
Luiz de Abreu
O Samba do crioulo doido, 2004
Nina Simone
Backlash blues, 1976
Bruce Nauman
Lip Sync, 1969
Volmir Cordeiro
L’œil la bouche et le reste, 2017
Vera Mantero
Une mystérieuse Chose, a dit e.e cummings*, 2004
Latifa Laâbissi
Écran somnambule, 2012
Maguy Marin
Singspiele, 2014
Studio 12
Steven Cohen
Chandelier, 2002
Juan Manuel Echavarria
Bocas de Ceniza, 2004
William Forsythe
Solo, 1997
Valeska Gert
Tanzerische Pantominen, 1925
Yvonne Rainer
Hand Movie, 1966
Richard Serra
Hand catching lead, 1968
Bas Jan Ader
I’m too sad to tell you, 1971
La Ribot
Laughing Hole, 2006
Maguy Marin
Ha ! Ha !, 2008
Lia Rodrigues
Incarnat, 2005
Latifa Laâbissi
Self portrait camouflage, 2006
Tatsumi Hijikata
Hôsôtan, 1972
Abbas Kiarostami
Shirin, 2008
Marcelo Evelin
Matadouro, 2011
Micheline Torres
Carne, 2008
Ana Rita Teodoro
Fantôme méchant, 2016
Maria Bethânia
Cantico negro, 1978
Sabine Macher
Audiodescription de L’œil la bouche et le reste, 2017
Studio 1
10 > 15.03
Tatiana Issa et Raphael Alvarez
Dzi Croquettes, 2009-2011
16 > 20.03
Loïc Touzé & Latifa Laâbissi
Love, 2010
21 > 25.03
Antonia Baehr
Could you please laugh for a day, 2007
Laurent Goldring
Figures, 2004
26 > 30.03
Mark Tompkins
La valse de Vaslav, Hommage à Nijinski, 1989
Icons, Hommage à Valeska Gert, 1998
Under my skin, Hommage à Joséphine Baker, 1996
Witness, Hommage à Harry Sheppard, 1992
