Faced with confinement, artistic action gets organized!
This April, the Générateur team and its artists present a special edition of Show your [ frasq ] renamed for the occasion ZOOM your [ frasq ] !
ZOOM? It’s a videoconferencing application that can host up to 100 participants simultaneously.
Visitors can get an overview, zoom in on a performance, or move from one performance to another, as close as possible to the real experience.
New features for an enhanced experience:
– The microphone will be muted by default for all those connected, and only performers will have access to it.
– For visitors and performers: you can hide the gray boxes (participants without video), by clicking on the 3 blue dots in any gray box and selecting “hide participants without video”&;< with the only instruction to mute your microphone! (mute mode).
ABOUT SHOW YOUR | FRASQ ]
Show your [ frasq ] is an “ultra-vivant” gathering dedicated to performance art, bringing together dancers, actors, circus artists, musicians and visual artists.
Show your [ frasq ] is a biotope in which a collective of artists evolves, ready to put their practice, know-how – and above all – their savoir-non-faire to the test. At the heart of this creative ecosystem, the boundaries between works, audience and artists vanish to give life to a new dialogue, far removed from convention.
Show your [ frasq ] is akin to a playground, a playground, a wasteland, a throne fair or a crossroads without traffic regulations… It’s a privileged time to throw yourself together, without a net, into an out-of-time pod!
ARTISTS
Anne DREYFUS, Bernard Bousquet Clémence BAUBANT, Mickaël BERDUGO, Sonia CODHANT, Jade COLLET, Paola DANIELE, Sophia EL MOKHTAR, Claire FAUGOUIN, Agathe HERRY, Baptiste JOXE, Deed JULIUS, Laurent MELON, Emilie MOUTSIS, Marc PLANCEON, Ariel PY, Mathilde RANCE, Jean-François REY, Catherine URSIN, Eneas Vaca Bualo, Ariane ZARMANTI.
MANIFESTO ZOOM YOUR [ FRASQ ]
Why we choose to perform in spite of everything ?
At a time of confinement, when free cultural offerings are multiplying on networks, living artists are plunging a little further into precariousness.
We contemporary artists in the age of late capitalism are a precarious and unstable professional category. We pay every day for the choice of our freedom, and our remuneration remains all too often optional, given that we are reputed to value visibility which, it is well known, advantageously replaces money.
Before confinement, we had a regular appointment at Le Générateur in Gentilly: Show your [ frasq ], a multiple stage, shared between performers and visitors, a moment of performative propositions similar to what a car launched without headlights at night on the highway might be. A vast, untouched plateau in which we have the right to wander, to make mistakes, Le Générateur is an associative art space with a fragile economy. Admission is free, and the team pays the artists who come to perform as much as possible.
And then we’re confined.
Show your [ frasq ] becomes Zoom your [ frasq ]. Our physical meeting becomes virtual. We choose to continue performing together, in front of an audience, sometimes with the audience. We make the choice to hijack the digital tools associated with corporate telecommuting and make them our own, to make them artistic, uncertain, cacophonous.
We’re also making the choice to find an economy of our own, since it’s obvious that our condition won’t be paid for by the Ministry of Culture, local authorities or Bercy…
We keep plotting our trajectories, we keep invading the public space with our ideas, our images, our demands. We’ve been living with limited means for a long time, we’re sort of from the future and we know we need to organize for a collective world.
Join us and let’s perform together today for a way out of the crisis that is also a change of course!
– Emilie MOUTSIS
RETURN TO THE PREMIERE OF ZOOM YOUR [ FRASQ ] SATURDAY MARCH 28
Windows overlooking courtyard
For 10 days we’ve all been talking to each other via screens-family, friends, processionals, students-tonight performance finds a way in there, and makes a mockery of confinement. Dare. See you on ZOOM in a virtual Generator, which aggregates in a mosaic the personal spaces of the performers at home.
Of course, at first it’s all a bit stuttered – and so much the worse for it – it’s all a mess, everyone in their own corner, distanced. The rules have to be reinvented before they can be broken: great confusion, with the voices of spectators who have forgotten to turn off the microphone. All reduced to a fixed, two-dimensional frame, like in the early days of cinema, like our lives at the moment.
The virtual space is organized, with some fifteen small windows opening for us to enter. It looks like the facade of a building, curtains open on so many living scenes. We react to these invitations, zooming from screen to screen as if we were pacing the Générateur’s auditorium to get closer to one performance or another. Chattering or laconic proposals, unexplained, beautiful, zany visions, in living rooms, bedrooms, corridors, staircases or bathrooms, turned upside down. Songs, drawings, still or moving bodies. Or just the watchful eyes of spectators with their cameras on. All united by the will not to give up.
We smile. And the moment is also moving to the extent of what’s missing, to the extent of the frustration of not being able to get any closer, a promise of after.
– Guy DEGEORGES