After studying literature and philosophy, Célia Houdart became assistant director for Oskar Gomez Mata, Arthur Nauzyciel and Christian Rist before devoting herself to writing and producing her own works, which redistribute writing, sound image and movement in a global non-narrative poetic form. Since 1999, she has created Rotozaza soir(é)électrogène pour Jean Tinguely composed from interviews with the Swiss sculptor, Did You Ever See Piedmontese Hills? after Cesare Pavese, M&W (oratorio-diptych) in which she queries texts by Musil, Wittgenstein, A King without Distraction after Jean Giono and Franz Schubert and The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, an installation co-produced with Claire Peverelli. Célia Houdart invests theatres, galleries, public venues and streets to question theatre practice and to put it in contact with the most diversified publics.
Upon reading Précisions sur les vagues (Precisions on the Waves) by Marie Darrieussecq, Célia Houdart wanted to have this text heard. It is the minutely detailed description of marine phenomena – whether they are scientific or poetic is not clear to us. The spectator is invited to enter an installation where Marie Darrieussecq's words, spoken by Valérie Dréville, are disseminated in a sound and light space. The sound track conceived by Sébastien Roux is made up of randomly arranged and disseminated mini-sequences. Small blocks of texts and sounds unfurl like waves, to infinity. At any time of the day, we can access what is simultaneously pocket theatre, a music kiosk or a radio studio, designed by Oliver Vadrot, to listen to what might be a lecture, a lesson about things or a poem. A journey through time and space, a crossing of continents, from the “roller” of the Atlantic coasts to the “tsunami” of the Indian Ocean, these waves recount a part of the world, between the gentle lapping of water to the fury of a tidal wave.
Distribution
proposition: Célia Houdart
texte: Marie Darrieussecq
voix: Valérie Dréville
musique, conception sonore: Sébastien Roux
élaboration du dispositif sonore: Christophe Hauser, La Muse en circuit
espace: Olivier Vadrot (Cocktail Designers)
production déléguée: Centre dramatique national Orléans-Loiret-Centre
texte publié aux éditions P.O.L
Production
coproduction: Centre dramatique national Orléans-Loiret-Centre,
Festival d'Avignon, La Muse en circuit – Centre national de création musicale, Stanza