AMOR AOMORI

 Would you take me on a walk to your favorite place?”

Béatrice DIDIER began her residency in Aomori by posing this question to local residents.

“Could you write down a few words on this leaf? I’ll write my own message on another leaf. Then we’ll exchange them.”
This suggestion to the four participants who collaborated on Didier’s project allowed the five of them to share with each other the things they noticed and felt during their walks together around Aomori.

The leaves exchanged between Didier and the four participants are displayed in pairs, with each pair corresponding to one of the four drawings of their respective walking routes, traced on the gallery floor. In the space opposite, across from short poems that Didier composed daily during her residency, video recordings are displayed along with the typewriter she used. Throughout her 15-plus-year career as a performance artist, the Brussels-based Didier has consistently utilized her own body and its experiences as important materials in her artistic creations. The pieces shown here can be thought of as the traces of her experience in Aomori, an experience that revisited the everyday act of “walking.” Each of these traces is organically connected, and together form an image which serves as a more tactile record through which we can vicariously experience the thoughts that passed through Didier’s walking body. (Tomo Setou, ACAC)

photos@Béatrice Didier and ACAC

This installation was created in the context of the project Spinning Scapes at ACAC, 

under the patronage of the Belgian Embassy in Japan. 

With my deep gratitude to all participants and the team of ACAC

In silence, Oulu

On 1th and 2th november 2024,

One by one, in the culturhouse VALVE theatre room, the spectator was invited to face me through a one-way mirror.

In silence.

To observe her/his face.

Then mine.

Then our two faces combined in a single image.

Little by little, the mirror is removed, until we find ouselves face to face.

As our body is the place and time of our human condition (D. Le Breton)

Until the light shone on who became the actress/the actor.

Before it gets dark. 

                                                             Photos@Annina Kettunen

This performance took place in the context of the the festival Kehä / One-to-One 

Pacifique, 21/04/2023

On 21th april 2023,

On one of the banks that connects the city of Ishinomaki to the Pacific Ocean

12 years after the tsunami

I walked to the sea...

Bamboo extending the arms

Wind resistant bamboo

Bamboo offering japanese to the sea

Arms and hands offering feathers to the sky

Strenght and peace to you

Pacific Ocean

Pacifique is the name of this performance created for R5 Since then I from now

Curated by Daisuke Takeya

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International

 

  Photos © Beatrice Didier, Evamaria Schaller and Koichiro Takahashi

 

 Fluctuations of the Invisible Mind

What do you see?

Diffused reflections of the sunset

The surface of the river is illuminated

Its boundaries have separated you and me

My heart has been crushed along with yours

Don't reclaim it 

Look

I'm not you

You are not me

What do you see? (Maron Shibukowa)

                         

Ishinomaki, 11.03.2011...20.04.2023

On 20th april 2023,

Twelve years after the tunami and earthquake,

Three years after start of covid 19,

At Kinematica's café,

Audience was invited 

To sit 

To look at some foto from Okawa Elementary School Ruins

To listen to japanese radio news from 

To hold hands

To kiss plastic covid window

To write on window

In memory of what each has gone trough/experienced/lost

This performance was created in tghe context of R5 since then from now ,

Curated by Daisuke Takeya,

With the support of WBI

 

     Photos © Beatrice Didier and Koichiro Takahashi

HERE AND NOW II, 15th july 2022 at Milford House, Convergence Festival

 (...)

To be here and now 

Now

Now

Now

Now

Now

Now

No

Not

Not online

But here and now

This performance has been created for the festival Convergence.

Based on the text Here and Now (which became the soundtrack of the performance), the action took place from the office room to the entrance of the Milford House where an old beech tree stands.

Convergence of writing and speech
Convergence of past and present
Convergence of beings (tree and human)
Convergence of living beings

With the support of WBI 

Photos @Jordan Hutchings

DOE A YAE VI, 02/04/2021

 

DOE A YAE VI*  est une action créée le 02/04/2021 pour le lancement de TRANSNATION

 

TRANSNATION est une réponse nécessaire et immédiate aux menaces qui pèsent sur les vies et libertés démocratiques de nos collègues artistes, travailleur/ses culturel/les et personnes du monde entier. Nous manifestons notre solidarités envers celles et ceux qui, opprimé/es par des régimes autoritaires, luttent pour la démocratie et la justice sociale. Nous nous engageons à protéger les artistes, travailleur/ses de la culture et personnes contre toute forme de harcèlement et de répression étatiques. Nous défendrons les libertés civiles et défendrons la démocratie populaire.

A cette occasion, TRANSNATION demande à l'armée du Myanmar – exige l'armée du Myanmar - dont le coup d'Etat violent a l'intention de réinstaurer une dictature militaire – de mettre fin à leur brutalité ainsi qu'à la loi martiale.

 

* action Béatrice Didier - captation Geneviève Dufey 

Hour - Bergen International Performance Festival (BIPF) Kunstgarasjen - 28 February to 1 March 2020

 


 

Performance Art Bergen proudly presents;
HOUR: Bergen International Performance Festival 2020
Performance art and one day seminar at Kunstgarasjen
Friday 28 February: 17.45
24 hours group collective performance
28 February: 18.00 continue to 18.00 on 29 February
One day seminar
Sunday 1 March: 14.00 - 17.30
HOUR is a performance art, collective encounter which 24 artists from Norway, Nordic and international countries migrate, interact within and share time, space and materials over a 24 hour period follow by one day seminar. HOUR is curated by Pavana Reid for Performance Art Bergen. .

On Friday 28th February at 18.00, artists enter the shared space, one by one, on the hour, every hour and remain in the space for the 24 hour period. The artists perform together and will end the performance collectively at 18.00 on Saturday 29th February.
12 artists have been invited to participate in BIPF 2020 and 12 artists have been selected through an Open Call:
Alastair Maclennan, Sinead O'Donnell, Thomas Wells,  Niamh Seana Meehan, Manuel Lopez, Nieves Correa, Marilyn Arsem,Chomphunut Puttha, Tanya Mars, Ivonne Navas Dominguez, Sandrine Schaefer, John Court, Olga Prokhorova, Mads Floor Andersen, Gustaf Broms, Thomas Reul, Ingeborg Blom Andersskog, Béatrice Didier,  Andriy Helytovych, Ana Matev, Sajan Mani, Marta Bosowska, Rita Marhaug, Jan-Egil Finne.

Among the audiences, students from Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen (KMD) will take part in a writing workshop “Witness” Experiential Writing: text as a means to document performance which organise by Eleanor Clare and Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen.
On Sunday1st March at 14.00, the seminar begins with About Real Time and Constructed Time a lecture performance by Kurt Johannessen. Follow by Reflection a panel discussion which Sylvie Ferrè, Øyvind Kvalnes, Douglas Park, Eleanor Clare, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Kurt Johannessen will share their experience with the 24 participants and audiences of the performance HOUR. The seminar will finish with short presentations by the students.


HOUR BIPF 2020 is supported by:
Performance Art Bergen, Nordic Culture Fund, City of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Kunstgarasjen, Hordaland County, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen (KMD) and H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anne Westfall-Larsen´s Almennyttigefond

Dream of Earth without boundaries I

Au milieu de l'espace, la machine à écrire de Sanmu Chan arrêté quelques heures plus tôt 

à l'entrée de Macau.

Sur la machine à écrire, les restes sonores de la performance de Chumpon Apisuk réalisée le 15/10 sur les toits de JJAC à Hong Kong.

De la fenêtre 1 du balcon, explosion d'un ballon noir rempli de plumes.

De la fenêtre 2 du balcon, décompression d'un ballon rouge rempli de sang.

De la porte fenêtre 3 du balcon, Béatrice Didier entre dans l'espace, portant sur l'une main des plumes ramenées de différents pays par les artistes de MIPAF, sur l'autre main une feuille d'arbre sur laquelle apparaissent des caractères.

Plumes et feuilles sont délicatement déposées sur la machine.

Dans le noir, le public peut lire sur la feuille : «  Dream of earth without boundaries, Hong Kong, 15/10/2019 »

                            

Photos © Béatrice Didier, Yifei Hu & Mio Soi Wa

This performance was created in the context of MIPAF Festival at Oxwarehouse, 

curated by Noah NG and Chen Jin.

Thanks to Sanmu Chan, Rachel Pan and Chumpon Apisuk.

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International