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Dimanche 7 juillet 2024
De 16h à 19h
Gratuit | Entrée libre
Plastic artist Alexandra Riss envisions her works as hybrid bodies whose manipulation infuses them with a function that results in a performative form. Her aesthetic universe is part of a system of metaphors blending Greek mythology with professional athletics, storytelling with the domestic universe, ritual with shamanic accessory.
In the performance Antiphona presented on Sunday, July 7, 2024 at Générateur, the practice of fencing becomes a sound device enabling male and female fencers to compose a melody according to their movement. Each player is assigned the ascending or descending scale of C major, and their movements are transcribed musically in real time. The artist has associated the repetition of “attack and parry” with the notion of “call and response” which exists in music under the name d’antiphonie (Latin Antiphona) meaning “two soloists alternately singing a sequence of verses”.
Two violinists from l’orchestre du concert de la Loge will perform scores from Antiphona as well as excerpts from Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an 18th century composer nicknamed the “black Mozart” and a great fencer of his time.
With fencing master Richard Robin, PUC’s high-level manager, and fencer Ana Mesic, Croatian champion, and other amateur fencers.
As part of the Les Incorrectes creative residency and with the fencing section of the PUC (Paris Université Club). In partnership with the PUC Social Club.
More on Alexandra Riss’s work: www.alexandra-riss.fr
Antiphona, Alexandra Riss (Le Générateur, 2024) © Bernard Bousquet
This event is programmed as part of Nous courons à toute vitesse, an arts visuels & performance program from May 4 to July 14, 2024 at Le Générateur, and on the occasion of La Métropolitaine, the international contemporary art rendez-vous of the Greater Paris Metropolis. more info
With the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture.
Alexandra Riss
Alexandra Riss
Visual artist.
Born in Clamart in 1992. Lives and works in Paris and Tours.
“Similar to a dreamlike, obsessive journey, Alexandra Riss’s works oscillate between observing reality and constructing fiction.
She arranges the memories and objects that surround her in vibrant compositions, convinced that the best way to address others is from one’s own experience. In this dreamlike space, all the objects are facets of the artist’s intimate reality. Like the heroic deeds that form the basis of a legendary character, it is the setting evoked, narrated or just imagined that reveals the power of things.
Far from being mere props, objects become actors, witnesses and transmitters of silent stories. The object created opens up a situation in which it will be put to performative use.
For Alexandra Riss, gestures and body movements are the means, like dramatic springs, for telling us, or inciting us to tell ourselves, stories. Designating most of her productions as performative objects, she establishes performances with professionals summoned for the precision of their gestures and the mastery of their skills. With the exception of her personal archives, the artist makes virtually no recordings, her aim being to encourage a kind of rumor, a more or less distorted echo of what happened, transmitted orally. Putting the object into action is essential, as it reinforces its singular character. The work enters into a relationship with the person who wears it, endorses it or handles it. A closeness is created between the artist, the piece and the person for whom it is intended.
Memory, both mysterious and profound, lies at the heart of Alexandra’s practice. Refusing to forget, Alexandra Riss has a special bond with everything that has disappeared, objects as much as people. When exhibited and shared with the public, furtive narratives compose a fictional scene.
The work is ultimately all this: it is a story, it is time and successive states, it is both a material and immaterial presence.”
Sandra Emonet
More info: https://www.alexandra-riss.fr/
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