Series:

Voissonnades

Performance type:

action sonore

Creator:

Georges Claude Boissonnade

Performer:

Georges Claude Boissonnade

Witness:

Ghislaine Delrey

Charles Pirat

Frédéric Altmann

Julienne Poulat

Theoretical background:

Interest for the location: a building with a strong acoustic echo but deprived from any major historical, religious or architectural specificities, only a massive and anonymous volume. A ready-made only having its form, its silence and its echo to offer. Based on this observation, a "As a reaction to…" is lived, starts specifying a practice, a way of being. The bareness of the premises could, for the first time, be married to the bareness of the voice and the process. I was all of a sudden "kneading" the Arte Povera space and the sensitivity usually convened was taken with drunkenness, freedom, lightness, in the spirit, the form and the body of the performance as that of the performer.

Georges Claude Boissonnade

Occurence:

Places:

Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis

Starting date:

2001

35 minutes

Topology:

administration/hospital/community center/school/university

Organization:

UFR Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis

Background:

for a work at the end of a cycle of the students of the Human Sciences Faculty during which they had carte blanche to invite an artist.

Producer:

Julienne Poulat

Ghislaine Delrey

Adress:

Gymnase

Nice

Documents:

Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard | © Georges Claude Boissonnade | courtesy de l'artiste

Georges Claude Boissonnade

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Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard | © Georges Claude Boissonnade | courtesy de l'artiste

Georges Claude Boissonnade

George Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard | page 2 sur 2 | © Georges Claude Boissonnade | courtesy de l'artiste

Description:

A space, some echo, some voice and other sounds calculated or spontaneously operated according to what characterizes the site and movements, generally silent moves (bare feet) apart from the exceptions (go through the room in long loud strides on the wood flooring, for example).

The audience being forced to close its eyes during the whole time of the presentation it would be strange to impose here a long an meticulous description of the process.

Georges Claude Boissonnade

Georges Claude Boissonnade

A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

Voissonnade, Nice Sophia Antipolis 2001

Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard

Georges Claude Boissonnade | partition d'une réitération de la performance "Voissonnade" huit années plus tard