Partitions (Performances) Jeune Création 2014
On the occasion of Jeune Création 2014 at the 104, the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard organizes a day of performances proposed by Christian Alandete.
How are we to interact in the public place? With what means are we to re-think the relation to the other? How are we reconstruct the social bond? This third extramural Partitions (Performances) seminar proposes a re-consideration of the forms of the relation to the other through a series of interventions involving a direct exchange with visitors.
In his book Quand dire c’est faire [How to Do Things with Words] (1962), John L. Austin singles out, among the acts of language, the performative statement, analyzing the capacity of language to produce action. At the crossroads of the political and the poetic, by handing out tracts, Alex Chevalier addresses to visitors an at once subliminal and nevertheless tangible message, capable of transforming them. The occupation of the public place, regarded by some on the basis of a differentiated score based on genre and, through culture, somewhat favourable to human beings, is re-appraised by Randa Maroufi in her Tentative de séduction. In appropriating discourses involving the approaches of certain men towards women, in which verve wavers between section and aggression, she re-directs these heard words towards the public, amplifying their range to the whole of the collectivity. In order to quite literally re-weave the social bond, Kwon Hyeoki proposes the re-interpretation of an historic piece by Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (1965), in a contradictory version, inviting visitors no longer to cut up her clothes, as in the original piece, but to sew them back together.
