This "winged hare", this "other animal", this strange beast of the theatre is an ensemble made up of three plays, an exhibition and some lectures-shows. The spectator does not have to see them all, each element can be appreciated separately but the ensemble does have ramifications and the logic of a particular universe that discloses more secrets to the most curious spectators. The first play, Vvert Célacon, is a creation by Duchamp Duchamp - fake brother of Marcel, a butcher from Normandy and a prolific artist, "a Living Ready-Made", presented in a glass case. This living sculpture tells of its beginnings, its place in Duchamp Duchamp's work and applies several pataphysical principles.In the second play, La Chambre du Professeur Swedenborg, the illustrious scientist and friend of Duchamp Duchamp, is referred to through his research into inverse relativity and his attempts to photograph the invisible. Assisted by Hanna Hurri, the eternal chamber maid, a young artist takes the public around this "folding" bedroom. In the third play, Le Dispositif expérimental pour une visite chez les Åsa chasseurs de météores, A. Pophtegme, (creator of the Albert Pophtegme group, the first perpetual artists' movement) makes a device for his performance in collaboration with the Åsa, an Inuit group only discovered recently. As for the peripheral events, the exhibition of Les Morceaux bas de l'Odalisque, this is a way to see the retrospective of the original works of Duchamp Duchamp, and the lectures on Hans K. un cas de figure, enriches the history of photography through the revelations of an astonishing portrait artist. O. Darbelley, M. Jacquelin and their team modify the perception of the spectator by playing with space and ritual. With constant humour, they pay a poetic homage to the boldness of the Twentieth Century and create a genre of performance and a form of contemporary art that are open to the world and to the public.
Distribution
Realization by : O. Darbelley and M. Jacquelin
Production
Coproduction : Association Arsène, Théâtre de l'Eclipse, Fondation Professeur Swedenborg pour l'Art contemporain et Festival d'Avignon.
Avec le soutien de : La galerie michèle chomette
et le soutien technique du : Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers.