Creative residency.
Transformer for the use of small, wasted energies is a sound performance, giving sight and sound to a gallery of living, loud, low-energy ready-mades.
In a white cube-like space, the public is invited to visit an exhibition organized by the foundation for contemporary art of a fictitious energy supplier: the SILEX group.
Here, the foundation presents its collection of sound sculptures made up of improbable body/machine assemblages: on pedestals of various shapes and sizes, performers' bodies are coupled to devices designed to recycle their "wasted" bodily energies in the form of sound energy.
By extending the issue of energy waste to the human body, this sound performance questions, with corrosive humor, our fantasies of high performance, perpetual intensity and infinite self-regeneration. It presents "augmented bodies" on the verge of derangement, whose energies leak out in all directions, producing uncontrolled sonorities at the cost of immense effort. Sound reveals these unruly energies, which constantly escape the control of their "interpreter".
Hosted residencies
GMEM ; le 104 ; La Muse en Circuit ; Ici l'Onde ; la Ménagerie de Verre
Coproduction
Ici l'Onde (Dijon) ; La Muse en Circuit (Alfortville)
Support
Maison de la Musique Contemporaine (MMC); Fondation Beaumarchais SACD; DRAC Île-de-France
Camille Lacroix
Design, composition and performance
Camille Lacroix is a composer and sound artist based in Paris. She studied scenography at ENSAD and electroacoustic music composition at the CRD de Pantin. Her work currently evolves between 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 an electroacoustic piece(Transformateur destiné à utiliser les petites énergies gaspillées, 2022), an illustrated booklet(D.U.S.T., 2022) and a series of sound performances(Générateur de tensions, 2023; Ventilateur, 2024). These performances are regularly presented at festivals, and in concert and performance venues, galleries and art centers in France and abroad.
She also composes acousmatic pieces, sometimes as part of commissions(Quatres hymnes mous, 2023), commissioned by Ici l'onde; Concrétions, 2024), commissioned by Athénor; Bouche de ventilation, 2024, commissioned by Motus).
Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve
Performance
Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve is an actress and performer for film, theater and contemporary art.
She began her work as an actress in film under the direction of Cécile Bicler and Hervé Coqueret (with whom she is still touring).
In theater, she played in Je veux tout le temps mourir au moins j'y arrive à chaque fois by Xavier Deranlot at the Festival In, Festival d'Aurillac. She continued her bodywork with David Wampach in Urge (Festival Montpellier Danse). Still at the theater, she is a performer and artistic collaborator with Louise Lévêque. She also performs under the direction of Aurore Magnier(Hapax, Manège de Maubeuge), Mélissa Barbaud(L'Agrume by Valérie Mréjen at CDNT) and Clarice Plasteig(Dans le meilleur des mondes). She reads literary texts by Elodie Issartel.
She collaborates with visual artists Cécile Bicler, Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Cécile Paris, Gwenola Wagon and the art center cONcErn.
Sigolène Valax
Performance
Sigolène Valax is a musician and digital artist. She attended Christine Groult's electroacoustic composition class at the Conservatoire de Pantin (DEM). She holds a specialized master's degree from Ensci, Paris, in contemporary creation and technology.
She produces electroacoustic and radio pieces (ARTE Radio), and sound creations for live performance(Un qui veut Traverser, 2015). Since 2016, with the trio Vierge Noir e, she has created music for choreographer Anna Gaïotti,(Les antécédentes, 2020, A kiss without lips, 2021-22).
In her compositions, she brings together analog and modular synthesizers to express variations in sound grains. She transforms their frequencies, developing stony, noisy, sparkling sonorities, deploying organic drones that take shape in the indeterminate. She is interested in wild lutheries and explores experimental improvised music with Vierge Noir e, Elek Ember, Seuil Optique, Mesce Basse, Ensemble Electron, Lucus Furrina.
Camille Lacroix
design composition and performance
Marie Bénédicte Cazeneuve
performance
Sigolène Valax
performance