Azkuna Zentroa presents the work Corps noir, a raw immersion in intimacy created by Stéphane Gadyszewski.
Corps noir is a raw immersion in intimacy. A staging of the body midst a delirium of accessories and objects of different textures, sonorous materials, images and voices, like many other identity metaphors conveyed via state-of-the-art technology, that enables superimposing, embedding, and fusing. This bazaar of the subconscious and memory presents congregated, non-congregated or disarranged pieces of a fictitious self that lies somewhere between liquid and solid, screens covered in frost, ice and water, warmth and cold, opacity and transparency.
The body is attacked; wet, stained, absorbed… and takes sides: it fights, penetrates and oppresses. It radiates. In physics, a black body is defined as an object which totally absorbs light on all its wavelengths.
Stéphane Gladyszewski becomes matter itself creating a fragmented self-portrait based on the complexity of a shattered identity coupled and the constructions of the psyche.
Description:
Conception, installation, image and performer: Stéphane Gladyszewski Supportive performer: Lucie Vigneault Production and operation assistant: Justine Ricard Technical Direction: Jean Jauvin Lighting design: Yan Lee Chan Sound design: Eric Forget Artistic consultants: Marie-Stéphane Ledoux et Julie Andrée T. Programme: Alexandre Burton Production: Stéphane Gladyszewski and Daniel Léveillé Danse Co-production: Tangente, Agora de la danse, Cirque du Soleil (all based in Montréal)
Sponsored by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts du Canada
This production is sponsored by DLD - Daniel Léveillé Danse in the framework of his development and diffusion sponsorship project.
Year created 2008
