© Niels Knelis Meijer

Yan Duyvendak (CH)

invisible

Performance

  • ~3h


Idée: Yan Duyvendak. Auteur·e·s: Delphine Abrecht, Claire Astier, Milena Bakmaz, Kiran Bhandari, Jovana Braletic, Rea Burman, Milena Damnjanovič, Rémi Dufay, Yan Duyvendak, Ariedon Gomes, Monica Hofman, Pitambari Josalkar, Katarina Jovanovič, Damjan Jovičin, Merel Kotterer, Sanja Latinovič, Wency Mendes, Grana Velencia Methalaka, Marco Nektan, Phoebe Marisa Pereira, Claire Perret, Jean Daniel Piguet, Parvathi Ramanathan, Daphne de Souza, Charlotte Terrapon, Olga Uzikaeva, Jaana van Vliet, Marian van Voorn, Karijn van der Wijk, Mark Yeoman, Milan van der Zwaan. Graphisme: Rémi Dufay, Luke Archer. Documentation photographique: Agnès Mellon. Management: Marine Magnin, Alexandra Nivon. Développement international: Judith Martin / Ligne Directe. Production & communication: Charlotte Terrapon. Production: Dreams Come True. Coproduction: La Comédie - Genève (CH), Grand Theatre / Noorderzon - Groningen (NL), Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council / Serendipity, Arts Foundation - Goa, Staying here with you, Belgrade,La Manufacture HESSO - Lausanne. Soutiens: Ville de Genève; République et Canton de Genève, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes (SIS), Loterie Romande, Fondation Ernst Göhner.

When was the last time you did something naughty? Twice a week during the months of October and November, Yan Duyvendak—who was recently awarded the Grand Prix suisse du théâtre—and the 31 co-authors of this project will invite you to participate in several series of micro-interventions in the public space. In groups of 8 to 12 people, you will perform simple, almost invisible performative scores, creating small situations of which you are at once initiator and audience. A legal but exciting disorder, subtle disruptions from which emerge a certain poetry of the absurd and of which only you know the origin. There are several series of actions, and the content of the day’s three actions is revealed to you when you arrive at Arsenic. You then leave to perform them in the vicinity, before returning to share your experiences while enjoying a complimentary drink.

Yan Duyvendak, originally from the Netherlands, lives in Geneva and Marseille. His career as a performance artist began in 1995. In the course of the years, he has increasingly become a point of reference in Swiss and European art. His art underlines in particular how the overwhelming mass of televised, computer and mental images as well as our social codes and other rituals of our fun society thicken the curtain between ourselves and reality. Yet his work never fails to affirm human dignity and show the extent to which it is imperilled by our image-dominated society.