Rehearsal/Retrospective
2009
Performance
Materials:
Collection: Courtesy the artist.
The performance takes the shape of a rehearsal session. It’s engaging and makes the audience part of the same staging. Four different performances (The Sphinx, The Messenger, The Artist Without Works and Prayers) are presented simultaneously, under the guidance of a director, one of the performers, who, like an orchestra conductor, gives orders, instructs, ask to repeat if not satisfied, and validates the actions of the other protagonists. Rehearsal/ Retrospective permeates the space with a disorienting feeling, blurring the boundary between reality and fiction. Instinct immediately leads us to wonder if what we are observing is part of the programme. A short circuit that feeds the desire to be overwhelmed by the compulsive whirlwind of actions.
First performed at Théâtre National de Chaillot, commissioned by CNAP (2009)
