Armand Morin Bettina Hutschek
This new session of Scores (Performances) will broach the relativity of the different kinds of knowledge about the world, from its geological origins to its successive occupations in an ongoing process of redefinitions which are as historical as they are poetic.
From the earliest traces of humanity in prehistoric caves to the construction of the city of Valetta, on the Island of Malta, Armand Moran and Bettina Hutschek use phenomena which transform historical and scientific data into images to tell us, be it through fiction of special effects, how our perception of a territory or a landscape is transformed, along with its gradual mythification are transformed into nothing less than archetypes dedicated to tourism.
Armand Morin / Les effets spéciaux
Through what artifices is the world perceptible to us? From scientific imagery to special film effects, Armand Moran suggests approaching the world like a set by way of the direct manipulation of images. In the wake of his exhibition in Nevers, La terre vue du ciel in the Espace Tlön, this performance broaches the gap between the observation of phenomena and its popularization. From the Lascaux caves to paleo-astronomy, and from theme parks to the dioramas of the Tervueren Museum, Armand Moran guides us through images of reality and its reconstruction.
Born in 1984 in Nevers, he lives and works in Brussels. Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes, and then at Le Fresnoy—National Studio of Contemporary Arts, he has recently exhibited his work in Nevers (Tlön), at the FRAC Bretagne, at the Yuma Art Center in Arizona, at the Villa Emerige, at the Bourges Biennale, and at the Salon de Montrouge. His first performance was presented at the Centre Pompidou as part of the Hors-Piste Festival.
Bettina Hutschek / Valetta
For some years now, Bettina Hutschek has been developing a series of lectures in which she gives us a different history of cities, combining historical facts and legends with the imaginary factor which they give rise to. After Brest, Venice, New York and Bucharest, it is the city of Valetta, on the island of Malta, where the artist is currently living, that she has chosen to talk about in a form where scientific rigour is permeated by fiction and its possible re-interpretations. Starting out, in particular, with the armadillo, the island’s emblematic animal, she offers us her analysis of the city like a hyper-structure whose strict land use plan is being gradually upset by its different users. This performance follows her research work that has been conducted for several years on the island of Malta, and which gave rise, last year, to the exhibition Maltese Confabulation, at the Blitz Centre in Valetta.
Born in 1977 in Kempten in Germany, she lives in Berlin and Malta. After studying Art History in Florence and then at the Humvoldt-Universität in Berlin, she attended the School of Fine Arts in Leipzig and then studied performance at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. In 2013, Le Quartier in Quimper held a solo show of her work. She has exhibited and performed in particular at the Passerelle Art Centre in Brest, in several kunstvereins in Berlin, at the ICCA in Bucharest and at the Deutsches Haus in New York.
