Soirees Nomades - July at the Fondation Cartier
Image: Rémi Vannier
As part of the Beat Takeshi Kitano exhibition 'Gosse de Peintre', the Fondation Cartier are offering a number of interesting cultural evenings in July under the title 'Soirees Nomades'.
Thursday July 1 sees Aymeric Hainaux and Jérôme Game perform at the Departure Lounge. Hainaux, a French vocal artist also known for his graphic work, presents a vocal performance piece that “combines friction, heartbeats, beatbox, silence and dense sound.” Expect to witness the human voice doing things you didn't think were possible. Jérôme Game is an associate professor of film studies and philosophy at the American University Paris, and has emerged in the past couple of years as an important young voice in the field of contemporary poetry. He is the recipient of a 'Mission Stendahl' genius grant given by the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, allowing him to travel to any country in the world to research a project. His style is described as using “superimposition and ellipsis to create effects of stammering, haste, and syncopation.” His reading of his own poetry will be accompanied by videos produced by Valérie Kempeneers.
The following Thursday, July 8, Mickaël Phelippeau performs his 'Bi-portrait Yves C'. The 'Bi-portraits' are a series of dance duets in which Phélippeau explores themes of otherness and identity. Having met Yves C, a choreographer with a traditional Breton folk dancing troupe, he created this piece inspired by the Round, a circular dance with singing from the Northern Finistère region. In the artists own words, “The bi-portrait is neither a portrait of the subject nor an auto-portrait. The bi-portrait is a desire to go toward.” With Yves Calvez, Maeva Cunci and the Avel Dro dance troupe.
Then on Tuesday July 22 Hong Kong ballet choreographer Dick Wong directs and performs '1+1'. He describes it as a “duet about suspending or reinforcing the differences, about play or peace making, fairness or inequality, manipulation or accommodation.” Quite.
Soirees Nomades
Throughout July
Fondation Cartier
261 boulevard Raspail, 75014, Paris.
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