︎ CENTRE WALLONIE-BRUXELLES / PARIS
VOSTOK — NOW I AM A LAKE
6.12.24
20:00-21:30
A programme of videos and performances
With Signe Frederiksen, Margaux Schwarz, Hagar Tenenbaum & Eleanor Ivory Weber
Curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou
19-20.10.24
︎ TEXT
VOSTOK - Now I am a Lake is a programme with Signe Frederiksen, Margaux Schwarz, Hagar Tenenbaum and Eleanor Ivory Weber curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou / SB34 for the Centre Wallonie- Bruxelles / Paris.
The theme was built around the idiom “VOSTOK”, the title Stéphanie Pécourt has given to her cycle dedicated to performative semantics in which are deployed carte-blanches signed by guest curators.
Buried beneath several kilometers of ice, Lake Vostok acts as an invitation that both fascinates us and refuses us. This sub-glacial lake on the edge of Antarctica, the largest identified, becomes the mirror-object of our desires and fears for the abyssal depths. The title, Now I am a Lake, is taken from Sylvia Plath's poem Mirror (1961).
Two performances - Civility by Margaux Schwarz and Riddle by Eleanor Ivory Weber - and two videos - Ni étrange ni étranger by Signe Frederiksen and Fun Fair by Hagar Tenenbaum compose the programme. In each work, the stage or screen is approached́ as a threshold where the architecture of the gaze, seeing and being seen∙e meet, questioning, even challenging, traditional modes of reception and attention. This programme is completed by a booklet designed by SolidÉditions.
(c) Margaux Schwarz, Civility, performance, Indiscipline / Co-production by WIELS & Knokke-Heist, Grand Casino Knokke-Heist, 2024.
Still frame from the documentation video (Sebastiaan Vermeille).
︎ PUBLICATION
This booklet includes the scripts and texts of the performances, translated exclusively into French for the occasion, along with stills from the videos presented during the event. This compilation is centered around Sylvia Plath's poem Mirror and features an introductory text by curator Pauline Hatzigeorgiou.
Published in a limited edition of 200 copies.
︎ 6.12.24 - 20:00
︎ Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris - Théâtre et salle de spectacle
︎ 127-129 rue Saint-Martin 75004 Paris
Co-production by SB34, supported by Loterie Nationale and Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.