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

SIX HOURS IN SILENCE, 18th and 19th june 2022 in Linz

Action :

From 4 to 7pm. During two days...

to sit in silence in front of a special mirror, by writing silence on a miror table.

Each visitor was invited to sit in front of traces of past performances in Linz and/or in front of me, by looking to each other. Here and now.

 

This performance was realized in the context of  The Non-fungible Body performance, festival curated by Freda Fiala and River Lin, at OK Center for Contempary Art in Linz.

 

 

 

 

                                                    Photos @ Béatrice Didier, Nurith Wagner and Robert Maybach