In Performance: Gisèle Vienne’s Kindertotenlieder (France)
KTL Video NSFW “Poetry leads to the same space as all forms of eroticism, to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity…“ Georges Bataille “Eroticism“ “Jonathan: The idea of raping and killing you just triggered off its million billionth hard...
Highlights- APAP MEGA Listings: UTR, Coil, American Realness, and Off The Map
As we move into this next exciting week of too many shows to possible see during the APAP conference, Under The Radar Festival, Coil Festival, American Realness Festival, and some non-festival performances that are “Off The Map”, we’ve put together our master highlights list. Good Luck and post back and let us know what you...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear
Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear: Everything starts in a forest. Extremely natural, inhabited by a buzzard in feathers and bones, this wooded landscape is staged like the reflection of the interior experiences of the characters who cross it. Depending on the light, mist and sound atmosphere, the metamorphosis capacity of the...
In Performance: 2010 Gisèle Vienne New Work
CREATION 2010 (TITLE IN PROGRESS) Conception, direction, choregraphy & scenography Gisèle Vienne Musical Direction Stephen O’Malley with 10 musicians Text Dennis Cooper Lights Patrick Riou Video Shiro Takatani Performed by and created in collaboration with Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir, Jonathan Capdevielle et Jonathan Schatz Executive producer : DACM Coproduction (in progress) : Le Quartz – Scène nationale de...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne + Dennis Cooper 2008 Production of JERK
A description of the 2008 production of Jerk by Dennis Cooper and directed by the French Artist, Gisèle Vienne. Jerk” is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than...
