Do inanimate objects have a soul, an enclosed part of humanity?
"Enter a house to be less lost.
Light, fright, childhood, reverie,
embark on the things collected, make a fantasy story.
And the little imaginary girls in this house will have all the rights,
the most romantic desires. "
Macha Makeïeff
The fundamental fear, the familiar strangeness that we sometimes feel when we meet them reveals an unconscious part of ourselves: the one we meet in our dreams. Trouble-fête is thus that.
In this installation conceived as part of a triptych that completes her show Lewis versus Alice and her book Zone Céleste, Macha Makeïeff exposes the words of her brother Georges.
Like the author Lewis Carroll, Georges invented stories for himself as a little girl in imaginary worlds. His wonderland was also built during a stunned childhood.
In the corridors and the living rooms, their words answer each other in the heart of a concert of strange beasts, distended sounds and mirrors that reflect. A sensitive walk in a house haunted by benevolent, rejected objects, those abandoned in the recesses of workshops, at the bottom of drawers, in the reserves of museums and on the edges of stages.
After the Maison Jean Vilar (Avignon) and Musée des Tapisseries (Aix-en-Provence), Macha Makeïeff's exhibition Trouble-fête opens at the Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne...
The GMEM coordinated the sound scenography and the realization of Christian Sebille's musical composition in its studios. For more than a year, the technical direction of the GMEM collaborated with the teams of the Musée des Tapisseries and La Criée to meet the artistic needs of Macha Makeïeff and Christian Sebille.
From technical advice to design, from the choice of equipment to its installation, Alexandre Pax (technical director), Emmanuel Proust (general manager) and Paul Sarraquine (sound manager) have made possible this sound and musical journey that accompanies the dreamlike wanderings conceived by Macha Makeïeff.
An exhibition imagined by Macha Makeïeff at the invitation of Nathalie Cabrera, Director of the Maison Jean Vilar - Avignon, to coincide with the rehearsals for the show Lewis versus Alice, created at the Festival d'Avignon in July 2019, and the publication of the book Zone Céleste by Actes Sud.
Delegated production
Association Jean Vilar (Avignon), coordination of the museums of the City of Aix-en-Provence
Coproduction
La Criée - Théâtre national de Marseille & le GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
With the support of
Région Sud, City of Aix-en-Provence, Natural History Museum of Aix-en-Provence, Sté JEFCO Peintures
In partnership with
Pavillon Bosio, École Supérieure d'Arts plastiques de la Ville de Monaco, Festival d'Aix
Acknowledgements
Fondation Cartier, Actes Sud, Nathalie Cabrera - director of the Maison Jean Vilar, Pavillon Noir, Hervé Castanet - psychoanalyst for the Escabeau filmed interview presented in the exhibition
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.
Macha Makeïeff pursues her activities as an author, director, set designer and costume designer through Mademoiselle, her theater and visual arts company, which she sees as a unifying artistic label for talent.
Macha Makeïeff
conception, voice
Christian Sebille
musical and sound creation
Armelle Marq
singing
Felicity Pricam
voices
Jean Bellorini
light creation
Alexandre Pax
technical director gmem
Emmanuel Proust
general manager
Paul Sarraquigne
sound manager
Julien Imatasse
sound technician
March 3 - May 15, 2022 | Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne (69)
June 3 - November 7, 2021 | Musée des tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence