Syndicate: announcement Faim de siecle

[Anna Balint <epistolaris@freemail.hu>]

FAIM DE SIECLE announcement


Between,  September 12, 13, 14, and 15th we are performing 
Rivage a l?
abandon in Saison France-Qu?ec. This work will be shown at 
the Caserne
Dalhousie, in Robert Lepage?s space called Exmachina in 
Qu?ec City

Festival Saison France-Qu?ec is organized by The French 
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, French Ministry of Culture and The Quebec Ministry 
of Culture and
Comminications.


On October 25 2001, we are presenting Rivage a l?abandon in 
MESS 2001, The
Sarajevo International Festival in Sarajevo Bosnia-
Herzegovina. The Mess
Festival is one of the premiere eastern european 
experimental festivals that
grew out of the war inflicted on Bosnia-Herzegovnia.




Rivage a l?abandon (Abandoned Shores)
By Heiner M?ller

A cross cultural, multi-disciplinary performance 
installation

A production of Compagnie Faim de Si?le


Conception & Direction: Ibrahim Quraishi
Dramaturgy: Jo? Cramesnil
Visual sculptures: Xavier Hool and John Long
Musical Conception: Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky
Visual Installation: Gregory Pignot a.k.a. Servovalve and 
Zachary Shuman
Musical Direction: Norscq
Musical Score: Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, Norscq,
Tiphani Kazi-Tani a.k.a. Dj Wet, Imani Uzuri and Waleed
Choreography: Arthur Aviles
Video Director: Marc Perroud
Technical Director: Xavier Hool
Sound Specialist: Christian Sutter a.k.a. Krishna

? Rivage a l?abandon ? or ? Abandoned Shores, ? is an 
interdisciplinary,
multi-cultural and multi-media performance/installation 
based on non-textual
interactivity in de-constructing the physical space through 
movement, voice,
theatre, digital, sonic and visual installations within 
video/vj, animation
and experimental films.

In one brief burst, 17 performers simultaneously offer a 
disorienting
theatrical tsunami twined with the spatial dynamic of 
industrial guignal
architecture and visual decay while 
constructing/deconstructing Heiner
M?ller?s ? Rivage al?abandon ?  within forty minutes as 
objects of human and
visual installation.

The performance includes:

Movement : Arthur Aviles (contemporary dance), Laurent 
Cramesnil (fire
eater), Dominique Starck (dance but?

Voice and Performance Art : V?onique Ruggia-Saura 
(actress/text in French,
Italian, Spanish, English and German), Mireille Safa 
(actress/text in
Arabic), Sandhya Sanjana (Sanskrit and Hindi singer) and 
Imani Uzuri
(composer, drum and bass singer).

Music : Tiphaini Kazi-Tani a.k.a. DJ Wet (music/dj), 
Nicolas Lelievre
(percussionist), Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky 
(composition, music/dj),
Norscq (composition, sound creation and total mix), 
Mattheiu Safatly
(composition cello), Waleed (music/composition),

Visual Images : Zachery Shuman (vid?/vj), Gregory Pignot 
a.k.a. Servovalve
(web and multimedia), John Long (vid?/vj), Daniel Mangeon 
a.k.a. H?zel &
Gretzel (vid?/vj), Prema Murthy (vid?/vj), Bill Shannon 
(vid?/vj), Ron
Kiley (photographer), Karen Lawler a.k.a. The EX-change 
Project (projection
vid? and animation films), Corinne Blouet et Claude 
Trinquesse (vid?/vj)


? Rivage a l?abandon, ? is specifically designed for the 
deconstruction and
re-construction of Heiner M?ller?s classic text in forms 
other than strictly
theatrical narrative. Using voice, movement, sound, images 
both live and
pre-recorded, the spectators are invited, even forced to 
interact with the
sculptural elements created by Xavier Hool.  The audience 
is ? free ? to
choose what they wish to see within the 40 minute 
performance. Inside the
sonic reality and physical manifestation (represented by 
the male artists)
through the barrage of visual images, the audience in turn 
becomes the
aggressor of sorts, like the historical Argonautes, walking 
on the physical
text and creating a kind of dynamic, abandoned (lost) in 
space in seemingly
chaotic macabre reality.  It is this deliberate 
incorporation of the
audience and the performance through direct collision, that 
causes a
participatory emotional response in the urban space of 
Alienation.

Premiered in the open street of Meat Market district in New 
York on
September 11 1999 with the Downtown Arts Festival,  ? 
Rivage a l?abandon ?
has traveled through the web at the LA Edge Festival then 
crossed the ocean
to a former industrial suburb, in the midst of a 
classical ? ghetto ? of
Ch?illon in the Sixeme Festival International Les Arts dan 
la Rue on
September 25 1999. Since then  ?  Rivage a labandon, ? has 
been presented at
Festival Ounze, Paris (9-10.6.00), Festival Piratage/Le 
Batofar, Paris
(27.8.00), Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (13-14.10.00) and 
Festival, Saison
France-Quebec, Canada (12-15.9.01).

This performance installation is based on the first part of 
Heiner M?ller?s
? Landscahft mit Argonauten ? trilogy. It is the inversion 
and the
urbanization of the classical Greek mythology rooted in the 
premiere
colonization by the Argonautes and the paternalistic motion 
into Medea's
horror with the final catastrophe of war caused by 
oppression. Compagnie
Faimde Si?le has spent the last three years researching 
urban warfare
through ? Rivage a l?abandon ? and last September it 
unveiled the second
part of the trilogy under the title of  ? Shattered Boxes ? 
at The Kitchen
(with the Downtown Arts Festival) in NewYork and ? Mat?iau 
M?? ? at the
Biennale de Interference (2em Festival International d'Arts 
Multimedia
Urbains, Belfort France) in December 2000.

The psychology and the physical reality of oppression in 
forms other than
overt manifestation within the human-condition very much 
weighs on the
notion of time, place and imagined communities. The space 
to breath
intellectually and the place to belong in an communal 
dynamic does not
necessarily mean that human power dynamics excuse one of 
suppression of the,
"Other. " Perceived inferior, weak, fragile individuals 
regardless of what
ever paternalistic tradition one is coming from, ? Rivage a 
l?abandon ? is
essential about human alienation in it's most severe form 
and our Medea is
the intellectually oppressed Other.

Heiner M?ller (1929-1995) is one of the great post-Brecht 
German writers.
Son of a concentration camp survivor, director of the 
legendary Berliner
Ensemble and creator of such revolutionary theatrical 
pieces as ?
Hamletmachine, ?
? Medeamaterial ? and ? Quartets, ? M?ller wrestled with 
the post-war legacy
of "Germany's continuing schizophrenia."  He believed that 
immigration from
the south--Turkey, India, Africa and Arabia--offered the 
only new
alternative to racially, politically and emotionally 
polarized German and
Western societies.

Compagnie Faim de Si?le is a multi-cultural, multi-medium, 
visual
performance installation company based in Paris and New 
York, working within
a larger concept of transformation of space through 
movement, voice, sonic,
visual and physical installations in activating the 
audiences through a
melange between performance installation and technology. We 
are essentially
a collective and have just begin a two year residency in a
inter-disciplinary complex called Mains d'Oeuvres in St 
Ouen France.

Besides ? Rivage a l' abandon ? (Abandoned Shores), ? 
Shattered
Boxes ? - ? Mat?iau M?? ? and our new research into ? 
Landscapes," which
will form the final part of Heiner M?ller's "Landscape with 
Argonauts"
trilogy for 2002-3, Faim de Si?le as embarked on further 
artistic
activities as well.  In January the company presented a new 
movement cenor
piece called ? Geometric Variables, ? premiered in Mains 
d'?uvres and later
presented in Festival d'l OH.  With Jo? Cramesnil, Waleed, 
Andrea Davidson,
Jean-No? Montagn? Frances Bra, Karla Pollux and Ibrahim 
Quraishi the
company has also began a series of "classes and lectures" 
on creation of
video art, theatre, electronic composition and dance hip-
hop for University
of Paris, Sorbonne and Paris Trios University. With Mains 
d'?uvres, we have
already started our residency project in realizing Nazim 
Hikmet's  ? Human
Landscapes ? as frame for research into multiple forms of 
disciplines in
performance art and theatre, installation with the 
community of St Ouen.
Further, we have begun our sound and video studios with 
Mains d'?uvres.

Member's of the Faim de Si?le collective include Arthur 
Aviles
(choreographer), Fawzia Afzal-Khan (performance artist and 
kawali singer),
V?onique Ruggia-Saura (actress/director), Imani Uzuri 
(composer, drum and
bass singer), Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky (composer in 
residence),
Norscq (composer), Mattheiu Safatly (cellist), Waleed 
(composer in
residence), Zachery Shuman (vid?/vj) Ron Kiley 
(photographer), Xavier Hool
(art plastique), Jo? Cramesnil (writer and intellectual).

Ibrahim Quraishi's, director, writer and conceptual artist, 
work's focus on
contemporary issues of migration and alienation and their 
impact on urban
culture.  For Quraishi, Heiner M?ller's insights are of 
particular relevance
today at a time when U.S. and most European societies are 
facing severe
conflicts  of migration, dispossession and assimilation. 
During the past
four years Quraishi not only co-founded (with Joel 
Cramesnil) Compagnie Faim
de Si?le, but he has also directed experimental pieces for 
the The
Maryinsky Theater (Kirov Opera) St. Peterburg, Samara State 
Theatre in
Samara, Russia and Berlin Festival, Dastaan Drama Circle, 
Lahore, Pakistan,
the NY Fringe Festival. Former member of the Actors 
Studio's Director Lab,
Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard School's Directors 
project.  In the
early 1990's Quraishi led a dance- installation collection 
called ''8,"
whose pieces were primarily inspired by the Bosnian war. 
Award the
Rockefeller MAP Grant in 2000 for the M?ller Trilogy, 
Ibrahim is also in the
process of completing ? Dust Upon Us, ? a film installation 
on feudalism in
Pakistan, Iran and Afganistan. Quraishi was born in 
Nairobi, raised in
Tunisia, Karachi, Belgrade and now resides alternately in 
Paris and New
York.  Quraishi was assistant director in Peter Sellars 
production of Gyorgy
Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" at the Salzburg Festival in the 
summer of 1997.

Jo? Cramesnil, is the co-founder of Faim de Si?le. He is 
a writer for
numerous theatrical publication, an artist and a 
researcher. His first book,
? Le Fil Favori, ? was recently published by edition de 
Rocher. Cramesnil
has been involved in the theatre for the last 15 years as 
an actor, a
puppeteer, and a director. Trained at the Sorbonne Theatre 
Institute, he
studied under Geroges Banu and Martine deRougemont. 
Currently Cramesnil is
finishing his research into the History La Cartoucherie in 
le boit de
Vincennes.

Compagnie Faim de Si?le
1, rue Charles Garnier
93400 Saint ouen
France
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 40 12 64 22
Fax: + 33 (0) 1 40 12 94 71
Personal email : litiq@aol.com
e-mail : iq.faimdesiecle@mageos.com
http://www.faimdesiecle.org







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