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2/11/2001

Live

Attitudes, Geneve

Loopmatic, A Crying Game (performance)
Yan Duyvendak, My Name is Neo (performance)(for fifteen minutes)
Saturday November 3, 2001, 8 pm

Dan Graham, Rock My Religion (film)
Tuesday November 6, 2001, 8 pm

Pierre Bastien & Pierrick Sorin (concert/performance)
Friday November 9, 2001, 8 pm

Parallel with the 9th Biennial of Moving Images, organised under the "images/sounds/music" theme by the Center for contemporary images at Saint-Gervais, Geneva, we propose, under the evocative title LIVE, a programme of three evenings of performances, concerts and films by artists who use and manipulate images in motion. We view this choice as significant at a time when so many artists, whether in turn or side by side, explore different techniques and fields of activity. In that multidisciplinary fashion, the relationships between images in motion and sound or music are among those most frequently used, and certainly the most significant.

As opposed to the exhibition of a work of art, a performance or a concert requires imperatively the artist's presence. We deeply regretted therefore to have to cancel at the last moment the VinylVideoT concert, since its conceptor, Gebhard Sengmüller, joining many victims of the present psychosis, eventually decided not to come back from the United States where he was tied up with several engagements..

The performances by Loopmatic and by Yan Duyvendak are both framed in an American metropolis. With A Crying Game, Caroline Suard and Stéphane Détruche, the duet of Loopmatic, are using four 16 mm projectors to introduce us into a frantic and giddying approach to the vertical city. The human being is repeatedly introduced by blending in a woman's face which seems to be melting into the gigantic features of the city.
Loopmatic, A Cryng Game

While the images of A Crying Game pan on New York's skyscrapers, the background of Yan Duyvendak's performance My Name is Neo (for fifteen minutes) is the underground ways of communication. Yan Duyvendak re-directs and interprets solo the final scene of the famous film The Matrix. Fifteen minutes of chase during which the artist in flesh and bones confronts an actor playing in the impalpable virtuality of special effects. The public is directly addressed by a very physical performance where the artist's mechanical gestures transform fights made spectacular by technology into sometimes funny, sometimes ridiculous, but always effective scenes.
Yan Duyvendak, My Name is Neo

We shall show Rock my Religion, a mythical film realised by Dan Graham between 1982 and 1984. It proposes a study of the United States via anthropology. It begins by deciphering the religious behaviour of the Shakers at the end of the XVIIIth century, then follows the path of history to focus on post-war society, and in particular on the values at stake in rock music. The behaviour of the human crowd, alternately worshipping a god or a rock star, is scrupulously dissected. Through this film, and his writings, Dan Graham proposes an enlightened view of New York's alternative cultural circles.
Dan Graham, Rock my Religion

Pierre Bastien plays his music on his trumpet and on instruments he made himself with pieces of Meccano. Having met him in 1995, Pierrick Sorin was fascinated by the magical and poetic universe of Pierre Bastien's concerts. Ever since, when the occasion occurs, he joins the musician and films him live with his instruments and his tinkering tools. Then, without spending time on editing, he mixes those images with those drawn from his personal universe, imbued with humor and derision. This concert performance by Pierre Bastien and Pierrick Sorin is a première in Switzerland.
Pierre Bastien et Pierrick Sorin en concert

LIVE is the fourth consecutive programme proposed by attitudes side by side with the Biennial of Moving Images. This year, we are glad that on the initiative of the Center for contemporary images a more intense and more substantial collaboration has developed between the CIC, the MAMCO, and attitudes. Our wish is to see the 2003 edition of the Biennial, following the evolution of other Genevese cultural events stemming out of partnerships or institutional collaborations, become a truly autonomous festival, clarifying and underlining its position as a Swiss and international centre in the field of images in motion.
Jean-Paul Felley & Olivier Kaeser

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