Gilles Jobin "Text to Speech"
- Date :
- 2008-07-21 (mon)–2008-07-21 (mon)
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Time :
- 14:00〜
- Venue :
- Studio A /
- Admission :
- Advance ticket ¥2,000, ¥1,700 (members of "any" and special discount) Day ticket ¥2,300 * Various discounts do not apply to day ticket.
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Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
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Choreography: Gilles Jobin Dancers: Jean-Pierre Bonomo, Gilles Jobin, Richard Kabore, Sung-Im Kweon, Susana Panadès Diaz, Rudi Van der Merwe
Text to Speech, first venture into the world of words,
In Text To Speech, Gilles Jobin de-contextualizes the most concrete terms of his own language, which he tries to scrutinize from different angles. Halfway between plastic and choreographic approach, he no longer tries to link, in hybrid or mutant fashion, or through the articulation of a system of transposition, but instead attempts to sample, to directly extract materials and sources of reflection in order to expose them on more immediate terms. What remains is a work on porosity and on friction that in the first instance appeals to the sense of hearing, being the world of sound and speech. A work that equally assumes responsibility for the phenomenon of violence, both physical and political, that has been present in his entire body of work. The interface of body/screen, multimedia language/physical effort is the opportunity to explore new spaces where the performer and the movement are set into motion. A first game that one could almost describe as post-situationist orchestrates it: voices, languages, historical or topical texts taken from the internet are changed and manipulated to the point of recreating a singularly poetic environment.
An impressionist touch with humoristic and alarming undertones whose ambiguous sway between the real and fiction acts on our perception. It is a process that closely resembles the relation image/body developed in earlier creations, notably Braindance (1999). Waves and frequencies, loops and samples, mixings and interactions are the object of this approach operating through focalisation, manipulation and impacts. They make up a kind of "material to be heard" that develops itself in the form of "tampering".
(text ; Irène Filiberti)
In Text To Speech, Gilles Jobin de-contextualizes the most concrete terms of his own language, which he tries to scrutinize from different angles. Halfway between plastic and choreographic approach, he no longer tries to link, in hybrid or mutant fashion, or through the articulation of a system of transposition, but instead attempts to sample, to directly extract materials and sources of reflection in order to expose them on more immediate terms. What remains is a work on porosity and on friction that in the first instance appeals to the sense of hearing, being the world of sound and speech. A work that equally assumes responsibility for the phenomenon of violence, both physical and political, that has been present in his entire body of work. The interface of body/screen, multimedia language/physical effort is the opportunity to explore new spaces where the performer and the movement are set into motion. A first game that one could almost describe as post-situationist orchestrates it: voices, languages, historical or topical texts taken from the internet are changed and manipulated to the point of recreating a singularly poetic environment.
An impressionist touch with humoristic and alarming undertones whose ambiguous sway between the real and fiction acts on our perception. It is a process that closely resembles the relation image/body developed in earlier creations, notably Braindance (1999). Waves and frequencies, loops and samples, mixings and interactions are the object of this approach operating through focalisation, manipulation and impacts. They make up a kind of "material to be heard" that develops itself in the form of "tampering".
(text ; Irène Filiberti)
Performance in Tokyo
25th, 26th July, 2008
venue: Spiral Hall / Spiral 3F (Tokyo, Aoyama)
5-6-23, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
http://www.spiral.co.jp/
Advance ticket ¥4,000, Day ticket ¥4,300
