Based on the work done for Musique-FictionOlivia Rosenthal and Christian Sebille present a performative form where the project was born, in the breathtaking outdoor amphitheatre of the Fondation Camargo overlooking the entrance to the port of Cassis. The 29-chapter text was written specifically for the occasion by Olivia Rosenthal. Christian Sebille proposes a sound and musical construction in dialogue with the text.
We love cars because they give us freedom of movement, we hate them because they break down and shatter our lives. The car is a source of traumatic memories (crashes and carcasses) or of family vacations.
From generation to generation, the metamorphosis of its gleaming, metallic bodywork has accompanied our advancing years. Cars date.
Christian Sebille and Olivia Rosenthal have decided to tell this story, which is at once intimate, social and generational, from the DS of the 60s to the automated Tesla that will soon rule our journeys. By weaving together words, noises, ritornellos and other musical effects, they reveal the complexity and richness of what attaches us to the car.
Production
GMEM
In partnership with
The Camargo Foundation
Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of the GMEM in Marseille. He works on the realization of sound installations in situ, in particular within the framework of a series entitled Miniatures. The place of sound capture is linked to the place of its diffusion in a ratio of space compression (reduction of the diffusion space in relation to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of capture time / diffusion time). Moreover, he works on the concrete sound and on the capacity of the material to be in itself its own diffuser (the instrumental object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the object (sound) play with each other.
Olivia Rosenthal
French writer, novelist, playwright and performer
Olivia Rosenthal has published a dozen stories, including "Éloge des bâtards" (Verticales, Prix Transfuge 2019), "Toutes les femmes sont des aliens" (Verticales, 2016), "Mécanismes de survie en milieu hostile" (Verticales, 2014), "Une femme sur le fil" (Verticales, 2025).
She won the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Alexandre-Vialatte for "Que font les rennes après Noël?" (Verticales, 2010) and the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for "On n'est pas là pour disparaître" (Verticales, 2007). Winner of the Villa Kujoyama in 2018, she published "Un singe à ma fenêtre", the book resulting from this three-month residency in Japan, in September 2022 (Verticales).
Performer and playwright, Olivia Rosenthal writes for the theater and takes to the stage herself to present hybrid forms with artists from all disciplines. Performances ("Macadam animal", conceived with composer and video artist Eryck Abecassis), opera libretto ("Safety First", again with Eryck Abecassis), sound pieces, musical readings (with Bastien Lallemant, among others), performed lectures, short fiction films (with Laurent Larivière), she also makes various interventions (posters, frescoes) in the public space, all ways for her to renew and multiply the forms that literature can take.
Camargo Foundation (Cassis)
1, avenue Maurice Jermini13260
Cassis
RATES
Evening pass (including Notes on the memory of notes at 9:00 pm)
Full: €12
Reduced: 10 € *
* Young people aged 12 - 25, students, jobseekers, recipients of minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over - with proof of age.
DURATION
approx. 40 min.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
No on-site parking. Paid parking 200 meters from the Fondation Camargo, at Bestouan beach.
Think about carpooling!
Olivia Rosenthal
text, voice
Christian Sebille
composition, electronics