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Festival

PAULINE BOUDRY/RENATE LORENZ

Fri 2 June 2018 at 2 pm - Studio

Telepathic Improvisation

This filmed performance uses telepathy to grasp how Others – humans and non-humans alike – come to fuel alternative political and sexual imaginative realms.

This exclusively cinematic performance uses telepathy to grasp how Others – humans and non-humans – can fuel alternative political and sexual imaginative realms. Performers, motorised objects, speeches, lighting and smoke machines replay a score by experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1974) in response to the audience’s imaginative projections.

 

While in some respects abstract, the film is nonetheless dotted with concrete references to leftist demonstrations, a queer SM club, surveillance devices and new human/non-human relationships in an interstellar context. The film begins with a direct, «piece-to-camera» address to the viewer and closes with From Protest to Resistance, a text written by Ulrike Meinhof in 1968.

In its challenging of the use of images as mere illustrations of political action, Telepathic Improvisation signals the tensions between action as it is imagined and action as such.

Telepathic Improvisation

HD film, colour, sound, 20 mins, 2017

filmed performance

with Marwa Arsanios, Werner Hirsch, MPA and Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Pauline Boudry was born in 1972 in Lausanne. Renate Lorenz was born in 1963 in Bonn.

They live and work in Berlin and are represented by Marcelle Alix gallery (Paris) and Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam).

 

Boudry/Lorenz have been working as a duo since 2007. Their film and archive installations take a fresh look at the materials and practices of the past: working from photographs, texts and songs, they invent collaborations between personalities of different periods, recreating forgotten utopian moments from history and destabilising established norms.

Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians with whom they investigate the long-term implications of performance, the pathologising of the body, glamour and resistance. Their films are shot in 16mm so as to underscore their performative aspect, while their characteristic aesthetic stresses the autonomy of the camera, music, costumes and props. Described as «temporal travesties», their works present bodies that traverse and interconnect different temporalities.

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infos pratiques

Festival Pass
Full price: 10€
Reduced price: 8€

 

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1:15pm Paris-Opéra Bastille > Ferme du Buisson

12:30am Ferme du Buisson > Paris-Opéra Bastille

(with a surprise contribution from OKAY CONFIANCE)