Defenders of the notion of general sybaritic idleness as an alternative to salaried, capitalist, globalised work which is depleting the world's resources, the LFK artists in their informal arrangement with Jean-Michel Bruyère at the centre, have never felt like seriously joining any of the various artistic circles, which they encounter all the time, but never therefore, enter. Jean-Michel Bruyère has, for his part, taken refuge in Senegal where he has been living since 1992, and where he was the guest of philospoher-poet Issa Ramanelissa Samb. "It was by chance", he says, "that in 1997, he found himself compelled to set-up the home-clinic-art school for street children, Man-Keneen-Ki. LFK which was an advantage in the setting up of this foundation, puts its means and its experience at the disposition of the Man-Keneen-Ki. A first generation of artists (painters, video-makers, photographers and actors) are almost ready to leave their home in Dakar, the Man-Keneen-Ki. Their remarkable level will enable them to make rather peaceful and easy lives for themselves if they choose, something that makes everyone at Man-Keneen-Ki and at KFK laugh." At the Avignon Festival, Jean-Michel Bruyère presented Enfants de Nuit in 2002 and Jëkk (sui in res) an open workshop in 2004.
LFK presents two works composed in Senegal with students from the Man-Keneen-Ki – Si Poteris Nararre, Licet, first performed at the VIA Festival (Le Manège à Maubeuge in 2002) and L'Insulte Faite au Paysage – An Insult to the Landscape) a world première in Avignon that has been especially adapted for the Céléstin Church. Like Poèmes à l'Infect in the Grande Halle at La Villette in Paris in 1997 and Enfants de Nuit at the Avignon Festival in 2002, L'Insulte Faite au Paysage has no subject and no form other that itself. That is in fact the case for most of LFK's work. It is nature or the real condition, or rather something of nature and the real condition, of who and what goes into them which is called into question directly. In this way, L'Insulte Faite au Paysage, the wanderings of the young actors will determine both the nature and the condition of the play. Four hours every day, where people can lose themselves once or several times in the simultaneous continuums of "Fiorette of extermination and of wandering" which are the main part of L'Insulte Faite au Paysage.
Distribution
Conception and realisation : Jean Michel Bruyère / LFK
Cast : les étudiants de Man-Keneen-Ki maison-clinique-école d'art contemporain des enfants et jeunes errants de Dakar / Sénégal Pape Camara, Abdoulaye Dème, Djibrill Dieng, Mansour Guindo, Ibé Konaté, Modou Ndiongue, Mamadou Lamine Sakho, Thierno Sall, Assane Sène, Chérif Soumaré, Babacar Sy
and : Thierry Arredondo, Goo Bâ, Jean Michel Bruyère, Laurent Dailleau, Fiorenza Menni, Issa Samb
Realisation team : Thierry Arredondo, Goo Bâ, Franck Bouilleaux, Xavier Bouilleaux, Martine Brunott, Jean Michel Bruyère, Richard Castelli, Joachim Coly, Laurent Dailleau, Nadine Febvre, Fiorenza Menni, Joseph S.W. Sagna, Issa Samb, Philipp Sichler, Delphine Varas, Benoît Weber
Production
Production : LFK-lafabriks
En coproduction avec : le Festival d'Avignon, Epidemic
Avec la participation : de la Grande Halle de la Villette
Avec le soutien : de l'AFAA et de l'Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
LFK-lafabriks est en résidence : à la Grande Halle de la Villette
Man-keenen-ki est soutenu : par la fondation BNP-Paribas