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Creator:

Sophie Taam

Performer:

Sophie Taam

Valérie Palma

Géraldine Le Léannec

Bibliographical sources:

catalogue no-made 2006-2007

Website:

//www.sophietaam.com

Theoretical background:

"If a wide audience is to be reached, according to Dick Higgins, one must speak the language of that audience". And then concluding that mediocrity wins against art, far from being prevailed upon by art.
With my projects, I modestly (but firmly) try to show that this fate is not a definitive one. In the history of contemporary art, Fluxus or John Cage, for example, could represent a phase that I would qualify as an adolescent one. They pushed back the limits of artistic experimentation and, in order to break the academicism, by systematically rejecting conventions, linguistic or musical ones alike, contemporary art has further moved away from non- initiated, ordinary audiences, much like a teenager rebels against his parents to find its identity.
This phase was essentially turned "against" something. It was necessary to expand the boundaries of art but it seems to me that contemporary art has now reached a certain degree of maturity enabling it to receive my work. Just like the teenager who refuses rules, and then reinstates them once an adult by personalizing them, I reintegrate rules into my work: those of language, of the signifier.

I use language, just like Filliou, with an emphasis put on the meaning of words rather than on their shape, and I use singing, with its strict vibrato rules and lyrical technique, for the sake of aesthetics.
If the previous experiments were needed to push back the boundaries of art, they have, in my opinion, reached their limit as a result.

Sophie Taam

Occurence:

Places:

Le tunnel mal-aimé

Starting date:

05 21 2006

12 minutes

Topology:

in the countryside/village

Organization:

no-made

Background:

During a conference organized by the artists of the No-Made collective.

Producer:

Denis Gibelin

Adress:

tunnel de chemin de fer

Cap d'ail

France

Performance du tunnel mal aimé

Jean-Claude Fraicher

Synopsis / Description:

Captation montée de la performance.

Performances:

The unloved tunnel

Documents:

Invitation à la performance et aux autres événements de la journée par l'association no-made

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Invitation à la performance et aux autres événements de la journée par l'association no-made

TAAM_S

Sophie Taam | trace de la performance "Le tunnel mal-aimé", 2006 | © DR | courtesy Sophie Taam

Nice Matin du 20 et 23 mai 2006

Type:

Presse

Technique description référence:

Nice Matin du 20 et 23 mai 2006

TAAM_S

Schéma préparatoire de la performance par Sophie Taam

Type:

Manuscrit

Technique description référence:

Schéma préparatoire de la performance par Sophie Taam

TAAM_S

Sophie Taam | trace de la performance "Le tunnel mal-aimé", 2006 | © Sophie Taam | courtesy de l'artiste

Description:

The idea of the performance of the unloved tunnel was born when we visited the tunnels with Denis Ghibelline, the creator of no-made, and Valerie Palma. We ambled in the big tunnel, Denis’ favourite, which is the usual place for the no-made artistic activities and then we went into the second tunnel, which is smaller, a little more lit, and a little hidden. Denis and Valerie have expressed a kind of discomfort they felt in this tunnel. And I said, "Ah! It's like an unloved child! "Hence the idea to rehabilitate it by baptizing it and giving it a name," the unloved tunnel. " The first part of the performance, the separation takes place in the big tunnel. It begins at the center with an a capella Handel duet from the opera Rodelinda, which is a melody of separation between the soprano and the contralto. Singing this tune while moving away from each other at both ends of the tunnel. Then I go into the second tunnel, for the superposition phase and I sing an excerpt from a contemporary opera by Lawrence Petitgirard, Elephant Man, while Valerie in the first tunnel takes up on her own part of Rodelinda’s duo while Geraldine Leannec prepares the cement board. The choice of Geraldine Leannec in this performance is not a coincidence. She was a friend at the time of Thierry Boussard, a painter who was going through a very long "elephant" period and herself, a sculptor, Works on monstrosity. The third and final part of the performance, which is the construction, takes place outside the unloved tunnel where Valerie has led all participants and spectators of the performance and where I joined her after having crossed the second tunnel while singing the Elephant Man’s tune. I carve the plate "the unloved" with the date of performance and affixed it. This is the phase of construction because it is the name that will give his identity to the tunnel.

Sophie Taam

Sophie Taam | trace de la performance "Le tunnel mal-aimé", 2006 | Capture d'écran tirée de la vidéo de la performance réalisée par Jean-Claude Fraicher | © Sophie Taam | photographie : © DR | courtesy de l'artiste

Sophie Taam | trace de la performance "Le tunnel mal-aimé", 2006 | Capture d'écran de la vidéo de la performance réalisée par Jean-Claude Fraicher | © Sophie Taam | photographie : © DR | courtesy de l'artiste