Focus sur Bernard Heidsieck et Jean Dupuy
Carte Blanche to Gilles Coudert (a.p.r.e.s productions) and Anne Le Troter
Director, producer and publisher at a.p.r.e.s productions & éditions, Gilles Coudert has selected for this fifth evening of [ frasq ] #16 two of his films devoted to artists Bernard Heidsieck and Jean Dupuy. Interviews and archival footage, much of it previously unseen, invite viewers to follow the unique itineraries of these major figures in performance and sound poetry, placing their actions in their historical and artistic context.
Detailed program:
3pm : Screening of the documentary film Jean Dupuy Ypudu directed by Gilles Coudert.
4pm: Performance by Anne Le Troter – the peppermint Colgate beat
5pm : Screening of the documentary film Bernard Heidsieck, la poésie en action directed by Anne-Laure Chamboissier & Philippe Franck in collaboration with Gilles Coudert.
6pm: Round-table discussion moderated by Gilles Coudert. With Patricia Brignone and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, two leading figures in the art world who have worked alongside Bernard Heidsieck and Jean Dupuy.
Patricia Brignone is a critic and doctor of art history. She teaches contemporary art at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Dijon.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux is an artist and essayist. He first made a name for himself on the performance circuit, of which he became the historian with his book L’Acte pour l’art.
Anne Le Troter
the peppermint Colgate beat
Performance
” I bought a new toothbrush because I have something to say, because I have something new to say, and when I have something new to say, I like the word to be brushed, rubbed, polished, so I rub all the words on the way out and then I go, in front, behind, up, down, sideways, all the words, there they go, because what I want to do is make the words shine so that they are smiling, they are jewels and then enamelled, yes words repair, that’s what I want. Because for words to be beautiful, you have to rub them, sand them to get fluoride words, calcium words, Colgate words. Signal words, that’s what I want! Then there’ll be a ” bathroom ” speech with angry white words. And in the end, it’ll be a rather sanitizing speech, with angry dentals biting the words out despite the pasty toothpaste that could, admittedly, make this speech frothy and expansive. So in the end, what I have to say is rather something inarticulate, which is going to get louder and louder, because it’s inarticulate. Yes, because right now I’ve got a mouth full of it, yes I’ve got a mouth full of it, I’ve got the rage rising and all that is foam around the mouth, yes foam, yes rage and finally what I’ve got to say are the words anger!”

[ frasq ], rencontre de la performance : 16ème édition
