Anne Le Troter Apolo One
An original performance by Anne Le Troter. During an artist’s residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan, Anne Le Troter began to take an interest in the “culture of apology”. In the last several years, the artist has been investigating the mechanisms of language, the position of the individual speaker, the messenger and the substitute. Public apologies proffered by politicians, business leaders, officials and celebrities have proliferated in the public sphere in recent years. There is even a service to rent personal apologies from specialized agencies. This is the material that Anne Le Troter explores in her latest show, which involves physically carrying the apologies of others. This performance is a coproduction of the Pernod Ricard Foundation, Villa Kujoyama and the ¡Viva Villa! festival.
Anne Le Troter (1985–) uses speech and its protocols and formatting as her main material. Through sound poetry, installations, theatre and writing, she amplifies in language the movements that run contrary to collective norms and individual expression. Her works lie at the intersection of corporate, domestic and emotional situations, stretching these to abstraction in an exhibition space, a book, an audio creation or even — why not? — in people’s homes.
