Chair
video (excerpt), 03:07, sound, 2019.
A video produced during an art residency in Tehran, Iran in 2019.
In Iran, women are not allowed to dance in public. For that reason they mostly occupy chairs and benches while men are dancing.
Chair x 2
video (excerpt), 03:12, sound, 2019.
A video produced during an art residency in Tehran, Iran in 2019.
Two chairs face each other in a duel, in which their silhouette never
intersect.
ROOM m3
video (excerpt), sound, 1´34´´, 2015.
ROOM m2
video (excerpt), sound, 8´29´´, 2015.
Through two protocols that use the body as a measuring instrument (walking along the walls of a room in m2, or clapping my hands in m3), I try to capture the surface and volume of several different empty rooms (housing, offices, etc.). The sound and the echo produced by these repetitive gestures are then presented with the real measurements.
Floor
composition for a sound performance (improvisation), 25:00, 2018.
With Yukari Misawa (flute), Aleks Slota (vocal) & Marie Takahashi (viola),
wood.
Inspired by the layout of Japanese tatamis, the scenography of my composition «Floor» forces the musicians to perform in a horizontal position. They are thus forced to direct their gaze towards the ceiling rather than to exchange with the public.
Courtesy visit
performance, about one hour, 2015.
During a residency in Düsseldorf, I led a group of visitors through the house complex I was living and working in: built by the Nazis in 1937, this was first a model for artists housings. I started by explaining how much I enjoyed my time in this beautiful place without knowing the past, and specially the nice proportions of my studio-housing. For that reason I redraw its plan by myself and shared it with the audience.
Then we went in the middle of the common garden, where I did a parallel with the american TV show Melrose Place I used to watch as a teenager : a pool in the middle surrounded with housings. At the difference here that the inhabitants are not sharing the originally common space, but rather appropriates parts of it by using sometimes strong physically barriers.
In this context, I decided to copy them and slowly expand my territory over the 2 months: I first appropriated the green space in front of my house by cutting the bamboo that overgrown there. Moreover I renovated a part of the pool that was recovered with vegetation. By doing that, I started a little territory war in the house complex. To protect myself, I built a bow and some arrows made with the bamboo rods I cut previously.