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.
Si Poteris Navarre, Licet is the title of the first film Jeffrey Shaw devised for iCINEMA. It was made in 2002 by Jean-Michel Bruyère and the LFK group. "If you can say it, I consent." So spoke Diana to Acteon, according to Ovid. Acteon had fallen upon Diana while she was bathing and saw her nakedness. "Go and say that you saw me naked,without a veil, if you can say it, I consent," she says to the hunter whom she has just turned into a deer and while she sets her dogs on him, and who is now unable to speak, and afraid. Under a 12-metre-diametre, inflatable dome, Si Poteris Navarre, Licet is made up of 124 six-minute films, some of them shot outside in Senegal, some in the ZKM studio in Karlsruhe, Germany, and they reveal themselves to visitors by the displacement that their changing view imposes on a "cinetic screening window".
Distribution
Conception and realisation : Jean Michel Bruyère / LFK
First interactive film realised for the iCINEMA imagined by : Jeffrey Shaw
Cast : les étudiants de Man-Keneen-Ki maison-clinique-école d'art contemporain des enfants et jeunes errants de Dakar / Sénégal Pape Camara, Mansour Guindo, Abdoulaye Keïta, Ibé Konaté, Mamadou Lamine, Sakho Assane Sène, Chérif Soumaré, Babacar Sy, Sada Tangara
and : Fiorenza Menni, Ndatté Ndiaye, Issa Samb
Music and songs : Thierry Arredondo
Compositing : Patrick Zanoli (CICV)
Sound cut : Jean-Luc d'Aléo
Cameramen : Jean Michel Bruyère, Michel Kœblen, Philipp Sichler
Chargé de production : Jan Gerigk (ZKM)
Software application: Adolf Mathias (ZKM)
Hardware/software integration : Torsten Ziegler (ZKM)
Gestion spatiale des sons : Torsten Belschner (ZKM)
Production déléguée : Richard Castelli (Epidemic)
Production exécutive : Nadine Febvre, Joseph S.W. Sagna
Production
Production : LFK-lafabriks, ZKM Institute for Visual Media, Epidemic, CICV Pierre Schaeffer
En coproduction avec : le Théâtre du Merlan - Scène nationale de Marseille, le Festival EXIT - Maison des arts de Créteil, le Festival VIA - Le Manège - Scène nationale de Maubeuge, Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies (Athènes) avec le soutien du ministère de la Culture et du CNC (commission DICREAM), de la Fondation BNP-Paribas
LFK-lafabriks est en résidence : à la Grande Halle de la Villette
