Anne Rochat et Jean Rochat
Jour de Fête
performance
- 1h
- G Hearing loops
- A Little or no text
Concept: Anne Rochat | Jean Rochat
Performers: Maxime Gorbatchevsky | Bianca Milacic | Anne Rochat | Jean Rochat
Panoptic concept: Yves Besson | Anne Rochat | Jean Rochat
Panoptic construction: Mirko Calabrese
Video design: Yann Gioria
Lighting design: Yann Gioria
Sound/music: Julien Aubert
Clay performers: Krisztina Abranyi | Sarah Antony | Youjin Choi | Alexandra Dulière | Loona Dusser | Aline Fournier | Alex Ghandour | Aldo Prost | Eliya Rochat | Jessica Tamsin Allemann | Margot Van Hove
Assistant: Marie Morard
Administration: La Petite Boîte
Funding
Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Centre, Lausanne; Loterie Romande, Lausanne; City of Lausanne; Canton of Vaud; Fondation Casino Barrière, Montreux
Inside an immersive display inspired by Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, the reference points move and the tables are turning. Part carceral architecture, attraction park and mini festival, Jour de fête presents a space where the limits between observation, participation and direction are blurred.
Constructed as an architecture of surveillance, the panopticon allows the person in the centre to watch all those incarcerated without being seen. An emblematic image of self-controlling, here it questions contemporary mechanisms of surveilling, power and freedom. In this display, the audience remains unstable, fragile: who is looking at who? Who watches? Who performs? Who surveils?