Augenmusik, 2016
performance
streets of Paris
June, 20, 2016
collection of M HKA, Antwerp
Re-arrangement of Art of Fugue
by J.S. Bach
curated by Azad Asifovich
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Each walker comes alone, from one of the 24 gates of Paris to the converging point, Les Halles. He puts his emergency light together with his siren on the floor and goes away. Progressively, as far as the walkers arrive one by one to the center, siren sounds are completing each other, and finally one can hear a fugue orchestered by 24 bitonal sirens.
Date / Time: June 20, 2016 (summer solstice) / 9 p.m. - 00 p.m. ("blue hour")
Duration: 02 : 50 : 00 (= duration of Art of Fugue of J.S. Bach)
Context: terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, installation of the emergency state in France in December 2015, social movement Nuit Debout occupying Place de le République between March and July 2016, numerous attempts and new terrorist attacks in France in 2016
Fugue: J.S. Bach, Art of Fugue (unfinished piece, no instrument for interpretation
is specified by by)
Performers:
Flavie Lebrun- Taugourdeau , Lulù Nuti, Camille Le Chatelier, Johan Larnouhet, Claudia Tennant, Tanya Nedelskaya, Elodie Dao, Antoine Balaven, David Lenon, Guilhem Monceau, Matthieu, Manu Arnaud, Léa Chevrefils, Etienne Dumas, Patrick Florentiny, Laura Wagner, Thomas Jones, Fernando, Alexandre Morzy, Anaïs North, Timothée Pedron, Victoria Shalisheva, Alice Papon
Sound design : Romain Grenier
Sound engineer : Jérémy Dahan
Curator: Azad Asifovich
Curator's assistant: Gavriella Abekassis