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19/4/2007

Nadia Lauro

La Criee Centre for Contemporary Art, Rennes

I Hear Voices. Installation

Nadia Lauro is a scenographer and visual artist who develops her work in various contexts: performance, landscape architecture, fashion. The different spaces she creates are scenographic devices, environments, visual installations, scripted spaces or living décors. She is a collaborator of the choreographers and performers Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Frans Poesltra, Jennifer Lacey and Barbara Kraus. Nadia Lauro is also at the origin of Squash Cake Bureau -scénographie et paysage, in collaboration with the landscape artist Laurence Crémel, for which she creates landscape installations and street furniture.

I Hear Voices is a sort of fur landscape with a sound environment to be occupied throughout the exhibition. It is an immersive space, somewhere between a “mental garden” and a “warm-up room for the public”, that will be scripted in a specific manner in order to generate new ways of seeing and of being together.

This project by Nadia Lauro is part of a series of performance-installations that includes Tu montes? (Ménagerie de verre, Paris, 2002 – Kanagawa Art Center, Yokohama, 2003) As Atletas (Serralves Foundation, Porto, 2003 – Lausanne Jardin, 2004, and I Hear Voice (Kaaitheater, 2006, Brussels – la criée Center for Contemporary Art, 2007 – Spring wave, Seoul, 2007).

Conference – debate “ Public space, Open Doors”

With Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu, aaa – atelier d’architectes autogérée

More and more fences, surveillance cameras, police and digital door entry systems are being installed in so-called "public" spaces: squares, streets, parks, and the grounds around co-op buildings. Public space is thereby being privatized, without really becoming private space but rather non-space. The projects of aaa – atelier d’architectes autogérée, through tactics adapted to the social, cultural, and political dimensions of each context in which they intervene, question the critical reconstitution of public space today, its uses, the way it is experienced and its potential.

Amongst other things they explore is the appropriation of abandoned space and the creation of new forms of city dwelling through reversible development, everyday usage, and through the implication of residents and users with their various skills. Created in 2001, the atelier d’architectes autogérée is a collective platform for research and action around the question of transformations in the contemporary city. aaa proposes the constitution of a "space for the intervention of citizens" in urban planning, at the crossroads of multiple perspectives: residents, architects, urban planners, sociologists, artists, students, scholars, retired people, politicians, unemployed people, activists and all concerned users.

"Le voyage d’hiver", (The Winter Journey), performance/reading by Fanny de Chaillé after G. Perec (15 min)

At the origin of this project were the discovery of one of Georges Perec’s lesser-known texts and an incongruous idea: transcribing this text with synonyms while respecting its meaning. This rapidly gave birth to an idea for a performance that consists of a reading of the synonymous version while the original text by Perec goes by on a screen, like the credits of a film.

The meaning of the text is hampered or enriched by the second version but also by the multiplication of sources; while we hear a voice giving one version of a text, a text meaning approximately the same thing goes by on a screen; At a precise moment, the oral version disintegrates into nonsense, semantic logic is no longer respected and a competition sets in between the text read aloud and the one being viewed.

For this performance, on the initiative of Latifa Laâbissi, a new version will be added to the two preceding ones, with the presence of a simultaneous translation into sign language.

La Criée - Centre d'art contemporain
place Honoré Commeurec 35 000 Rennes

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