Marion Laval-Jeantet et Benoît Mangin (Art Orienté Objet) / Perrine Clément
This last event of the second season of the Partitions (Performances) series proposes an initiation to biology and cognitive sciences with a performance by artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin (Art Orienté Objet). «Brainstorming Biotech» will go back over the pair’s experimentations with the human body and how it relates to the animal. The evening will also be the opportunity to discover a young artist, Perrine Clément, whose voice is at once an object of study and a material. «Pull» reflects on the way the voice may become a weapon of mass enunciation.
Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin (Art Orienté Objet) / Brainstorming Biotech
Since the early 1990s, Art Orienté Objet have been carrying out research in the field of biotechnology—through the observation of animal behavior, but also through a redefinition of the relations between species and the possible encounter between human and animal bodies. Be it with prosthetic devices, cell culture or, more recently, the transfusion of horse blood into the human body, the two artists attempt to redefine an interspecies dialogue that puts animals on a par with humans. In the course of their performance «May the horse live in me», which took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2011, Marion Laval-Jeantet—bringing several years of lab research to a close—injected horse blood into her own body, temporarily embodying a female version of the centaur. They were awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in 2011.
Marion Laval-Jeantet et Benoit Mangin
Since the early 1990s, Art Orienté Objet have been carrying out research in the field of biotechnology—through the observation of animal behavior, but also through a redefinition of the relations between species and the possible encounter between human and animal bodies. Be it with prosthetic devices, cell culture or, more recently, the transfusion of horse blood into the human body, the two artists attempt to redefine an interspecies dialogue that puts animals on a par with humans. In the course of their performance “May the horse live in me,” which took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2011, Marion Laval-Jeantet—bringing several years of lab research to a close—injected horse blood into her own body, temporarily embodying a female version of the centaur.
Perrine Clément / Pull
For Partitions (Performances), she is presenting a variation on the English term «pull», used at shooting competitions to indicate target launching, moments before participants fire.
Perrine Clément
Perrine Clément is currently completing her studies at the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts in Le Mans. Her practice of performance is rooted in the legacy of sound poetry and mobilizes the voice as both subject and object of study. Since 2011 she has been walking the streets of the city with a portable platform on her back. She uses the device to announce her performance and to declaim her texts in the public space.
Clément’s performances mostly take place in Le Mans—Place de la République, to be specific. Recently, she also performed at the exhibition “L’Origine d’un monde” in Azay-le-Rideau.