« Plateaux (2021) » will be broadcasted online this February 23, 2021 at 7pm on our website.
Plateaux (2021) is a sound and experimental lecture-performance emanating from the translation of a Go game into a musical score. It is a translation of the historic meeting that saw AlphaGo Artificial Intelligence win over world champion Lee Sedol in March 2016. This ambitious work entitled Plateaux is a reflection on the system of thought around the multimillennial Asian game presented by Herman Hesse in his novel « The Game of Glass Beads » (1943) as the synthesis of human culture, capable of grasping all fields of knowledge, from music to mathematics. And it is this synthesis that Farah Khelil proposes to achieve through this original work, the fruit of an interrelation between different disciplines: philosophy, mathematics, music, games and art. Particularly complex, Go is a pure strategy game whose objective is a subtle conquest of territory consisting in making the outside a territory in space, deterritorializing the enemy or oneself, building a second adjacent territory, as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari explain in Mille Plateaux (1972). With Michaël Bertin, an engineer at the CEA, Farah Khelil proposes here a new version of sound translation while showing her process through a series of projected images and graphics.
Farah Khelil is not only a visual artist but also a theorist. She is interested in various visual forms in questions of transcription, translation and coding, which rub shoulders with philosophical questions about the definition of art. She constructs a logical space where theory and practice are both arranged and dispersed in space, as in an encyclopedia. Privileging a thought of the multiple, the artist operates back and forth between the visible and the readable, the learned and the popular, the intimate and the academic.
The programme Partitions (Performances), run by Christian Alandete since 2011, explores the links between lecture and performance.
