THE NEXT SHOW 不日騷
December 2018, Live Performance, Floating Projects, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Curated by: Frederique Decombe
Artists: Raphaële de Broissia - Philippe Charmes - Frederique Decombe
Performers: Raphaële de Broissia, Philippe Charmes, Michelle Cheung, Roy Cheung, Frederique Decombe, Saie Ryu Lee, Lori Lok, Gabriel Ma, Yen Yen Ng, Mehrdad Tahernia, Daryl Walker, Riz Yiu
Scores by: Roy Cheung and Vanissa Law
Filmed by: Recluz Production
Venue partner: Floating Projects (JCCAC, L3, room 306D, 30 Pak Tin Street, Kowloon, HK)
Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
THE NEXT SHOW 不日騷 allows the audience to witness and ponder on four distinct yet interrelated practices pursuing their own creative logics while putting into relief the other ones: a surrealist live collage of words and movement (Decombe), a sketching operation taking place through extreme dressing/undressing (Charmes), the transformation and personalization of a coat through everyday materials (de Broissia), and the documentation and piecing together of these processes through the intervention of a film camera.
Decombe engages with her chorus of story-tellers/readers/singers through a set of subtle intentional cues as she pushes forward the musicality of word and sentences in ways that turn working with text into a seemingly haphazard but highly evocative mission that could be described as ‘Wordpainting’. By contrast, Charmes displays an ‘Action Drawing’, in which he frantically draws the other performers and cameraman while being dressed and undressed to extreme levels. Over the course of the show, Charmes simultaneously embodies an almost manic dual artist/model role alternating between near-nakedness and Michelin Man-style figure. De Broissia metaphorically paints/crafts her coat with everyday yet unorthodox fabric (balloons anyone?!), realizing a kind a ‘pret-a-porter’ piece through a practice that appears both zen-like and poetic.
In the middle of these three performances, the cameraman captures the ephemerality of the rehearsal process as though it was the work of art itself (and, indeed, it is), creating his own choreography by weaving in and out of each rehearsal and their interconnection. Through its own visual painting, the camera makes itself an irreducible part of the show and invites the audience to reflect on their own position as ‘spectators/voyeurs’ of the intimacy of performances in the making.
THE NEXT SHOW 不日騷 (One night performance) Raphaële de Broissiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhHJwZmd6wTHE NEXT SHOW 不日騷 (One night performance) Philippe Charmeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF1geVfK9bcTHE NEXT SHOW 不日騷 (One night performance) Frederique Decombehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkkUDY9st8w