thursday 23 april > 9 pm > Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini (sala nera)
UNTITLED 2005, a lecture. In 2005 an anonymous choreography was presented under the title Untitled. No picture, no text or any information introduced the work before its presentation as an attempt to escape the means of representation that help to communicate and promote a work of art to the public. If the intention of doing so might have been to question the expectations that a signature, an image, or a text do in the construction of our perception, at the end it mainly excited the curiosity of the spectators who speculated about who was behind that project rather than what that work does? We could have expected that diverse persons would have claimed its authorship as it belonged to no one but nothing like that happened. The work wanted to challenge the imperative of recognition to represent something. It has been described as attempts to escape identity and representation. With that aim, the movements were composed to produce zones of indeterminacy between animate and inanimate, object and subject, visible and invisible, and it was staged in a very dark situation. Following a description and analysis of that choreography and its uncanny characteristics, after 10 years, we will speculate anew with Xavier Le Roy about its potentials, its traps, and necessities.
concept and performance Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy (D/F)
UNTITLED 2005, a lecture
lecture/performance, italian premièreUNTITLED 2005, a lecture. In 2005 an anonymous choreography was presented under the title Untitled. No picture, no text or any information introduced the work before its presentation as an attempt to escape the means of representation that help to communicate and promote a work of art to the public. If the intention of doing so might have been to question the expectations that a signature, an image, or a text do in the construction of our perception, at the end it mainly excited the curiosity of the spectators who speculated about who was behind that project rather than what that work does? We could have expected that diverse persons would have claimed its authorship as it belonged to no one but nothing like that happened. The work wanted to challenge the imperative of recognition to represent something. It has been described as attempts to escape identity and representation. With that aim, the movements were composed to produce zones of indeterminacy between animate and inanimate, object and subject, visible and invisible, and it was staged in a very dark situation. Following a description and analysis of that choreography and its uncanny characteristics, after 10 years, we will speculate anew with Xavier Le Roy about its potentials, its traps, and necessities.
concept and performance Xavier Le Roy
rehearsal assistant Scarlet Yu
organization Vincent Cavaroc, Fanny Herserant - Illusion & Macadam
production Le Kwatt
coproduction Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Paris), Festival d'Automne à Paris 2014, PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Festival Theaterformen (Hannover)
supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag
Le Kwatt is supported by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d'Ile-de-France