Prendre Corps – Festival 33,7

Elsa Biston (*FR, 1978)
Prendre corps (2020) installation for vibrating object device – 60’
“At the beginning, the eye is taken up by the beauty of the objects, the play of light and vibration, the ear follows the gaze, lagging a little behind… Little by little, however, the gaze gives way: the character-objects become so familiar to us in their physical characteristics, their materiality, their ability to vibrate, to murmur, to sing, that they become
a part of us. (…)” When “Prendre corps” ends, we are no longer quite the same: our eyes seek out the character-objects that have become silent, while our whole being vibrates, from head to toe. “Prendre corps” certainly takes us far away, and draws a sound “cartography” like no other! (Anne Montaron for Hémisphere Son, on the occasion of the creation of the performance version at the theatre in Vanves, translated by Jil Hamm for United Instruments of Lucilin)

Elsa Biston – Conception, composition
Stéfane Perraud – Artistic collaboration