Béatrice Didier

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

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

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

THE NON-FUNGIBLE BODY

17. - 19. June 2022 at OK and Landestheater Linz

Linz has a new performance festival. It brings together artists to address the importance of the live experience for our shared public sphere, focusing on the living body’s relationship to the digital economies of our time.

What do momentariness, uniqueness and (ir)replaceability mean to us, both in the context of the real and the virtual?

How do performance artists deal with the living body and its relationship to the virtual economies of our time?

This is an invitation to explore spicy intersections: of the body and the archive, of live performance and its digital renderings, of the physical space and the metaverse

With Cibelle Cavalli Bastos (BR), Marita Bullmann (DE), Yun-Chen Chang (TW), Beatrice Didier (BE), Jan Hakon Erichsen (NOR), David Henry Nobody Jr. (US), Sara Lanner (AT), Sajan Mani (IN), Boris Nieslony (DE), Yiannis Pappas (GR), Jianan Qu (CHN), Xavier Le Roy (FR), Sarah Trouche (FR), Rong Xie (Echo Morgan) (CHN)

Curators: Freda Fiala and River Lin

More Info and Program Booklet https://www .ooekultur.at/event-detail/performance-festival-the-non-fungible-body