Béatrice Didier: Wallonie Bruxelles International

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

(...)

To be here and now

Now

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

Dream of Earth without boundaries II

On the beach of Guishan Island, a stone installation. Under the stones, a soundtrack performed in situ: sound of footsteps from the shipyard to the edge of the sea, sound of a phrase repeated during the walk: "Dream of earth without boundaries dream of earth without boundaries, dream of earth without boundaries .... Dream of birds without boundaries. Without boundaries without boundaries ..."

The audience, invited to gather around the pile of stones to listen to the soundtrack, can follow in the landscape a body dressed in black. Gradually, this body is getting closer. We can see that this body carries a big stone.

Approaching the sea, the body lays the stone on a rock and then rises in balance, facing the sea.

Faraway, we can perceive the flag of China. The flag of a nation.

Nearby, facing the flag, a hand rises and brandishes feathers, these escaping to the horizon: "Birds without boundaries.... without boundaries...."

On the rock, remains the the stone, some feathers and sunflowerseeds.

Photos © Béatrice Didier, Beate Linne & Yifei Hu

This performance was created in the context of Open Art Performance Festival,

curated by Chen Jin and Yifei Hu.

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International

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 »