Research residency focused on new sound devices, with a view to creating a new performance.
This performance is part of a series of research projects based on Marcel Duchamp's text, Transformateur destiné à utiliser les petites énergies gaspillées(Transformer designed to use small wasted energies), which discusses recycling bodily excesses in the form of sound energies. Through unlikely body-machine assemblages, the aim is to show and hear a gallery of living, low-energy-performance ready-made loudspeakers.
By extending the issue of energy waste to the human body, this sound performance uses caustic humor to question our fantasies of high performance, perpetual intensity, and infinite self-regeneration. It presents bodies on the verge of breakdown, their energy leaking out from all sides, producing uncontrolled sounds at the cost of immense effort.
Camille Lacroix
Composer, sound artist
Camille Lacroix graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris with a degree in scenography and from the CRD in Pantin with a degree in electroacoustic composition. Her work currently spans the fields of music, visual arts, and performance.
Since 2022, she has been working on a multidisciplinary project inspired by a text by Marcel Duchamp, which takes the form of a series of sound miniatures, a book, and a series of performances.
She also composes acousmatic pieces, sometimes on commission: Quatres hymnes mous (2023), commissioned by Ici l'onde; Concrétions (2024), commissioned by Athénor,Bouche de ventilation (2024), commissioned by Motus.
Her compositions are performed at numerous experimental and acousmatic music festivals: Festival Futura, Festival Ekhoes, Festival Supersonique, Festival FF.XP...
His performances are regularly presented in galleries, art centers, and music venues in France and abroad: La Biennale Son (CH), Le Générateur, MuMa, Le Consortium, Arthouse Jersey (UK), Topographie de l'Art, Plateforme, etc.
Camille Lacroix
: concept, composition, performance