Fiction / Performed readings #16
On the occasion of this new event in the Fiction/Performed Readings series, artist Estefanía Peñafiel-Loaiza presents Cartographies 1. La crise de la dimension, a film re-playing a text by Henri Michaux through traces left by it.
Valérie Mréjen proposes a creation around a series of questions and answers on trades and a reading of colors.
Finally, Carole Douillard and Loïc Touzé give a performance specifically around the phenomenon of falling asleep, based on a text by Kazimir Malevich.
BIOGRAPHIES
Estefanía PENAFIEL-LOAIZA
A 2006 graduate of the French national school of fine arts (ENSBA) in Paris, Estefanía Peñafiel-Loaiza, an artist with a protean practice, literally enacts disappearance and plays on the reactivation of memory. Through videos, installations, and performances, her work invites to a sensorial experience that deals with vestiges, oblivion, the passage from the visible to the invisible, the image as a fleeting testimony of what has taken place and been perceived.
Valérie MRÉJEN
A graduate from the Ecole nationale de Cergy, Valérie Mréjen is a novelist, video artist and plastic artist. She has developed a multiple practice, and her work deals with language through the testimony of characters, often discordantly.
Carole DOUILLARD
A graduate of the school of fine arts (ERBA) in Nantes, performer and artist Carole Douillard uses her body as a sculpture in minimal interventions in space. Looking at the social context, she experiments with the possible encounter between a physical body and a social body represented by the audience, furthering previous work by feminist artists. One example is her attempt to fall asleep in public on a gallery floor on the occasion of the Nuit blanche while visitors were circulating around her. Her work often borders on the spectacular.
Loïc TOUZÉ
Loïc Touzé is a choreographer. From 1982 on, he danced in the corps de ballet of the Opéra de Paris, then headed by Rudolf Noureev, and participated in many creations of the Groupe de Recherche Chorégraphique de l’Opéra de Paris (GRCOP). He then turned to Nouvelle Danse and joined projects by Carolyn Carlson, Jean-François Duroure (1986-1991), and Mathilde Monnier, who remains one of his artistic partners.
The founding of his own company with Fabienne Compet in 1992 marked the beginning of a long period of exploration. A whole series of projects followed, which touched on the relational space of representation, be it a wasteland in Bilbao or the Centre d’art contemporain of La Ferme du Buisson, with Un bloc (1997). Settling in Rennes in 1999, Loïc Touzé activated the social and collective conditions of invention, production and diffusion within the field of choreography. Déplacer (« to move » or « to displace » in French), co-organized by the choreographic center La Criée, brought together Myriam Gourfink, Xavier Leroy, Alain Michard, Jennifer Lacey and others to work on the practices of performance. He co-directed the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (2001-2006) while nurturing a collective of artists in Rennes with the Aéroport international project. Finally, Touzé also has an important teaching activity: at the school of the Théâtre national de Bretagne, the Université de Rennes, the Université de Paris VIII – Saint-Denis, the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, the Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier, and abroad.
