back-and-forth

Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2010

Dates:

2025-06-07

Back-and-forth is a performance based on a comical tool which is derived from its usual purpose : the balloon sculpture. Gaëtan Rusquet uses this tool as a sound and scuptural material. He creates a sort of exoskeleton in a ritualized artform : an expanded opened-out volume to the scale of the space while respecting an organic code of color.

This performance can adapt to any particular architectural space, which makes it an efficient in situ work. Both serious and playful, Back-and-forth has different layers of meaning, which makes it possible for adults or children to have both a fun visual experience and an intense kinesthesic one.

Duration: between 50mn and 80mn

Awards:
Two Children awards at the Antifestival in Kuopio : the price of the most disgusting and the price of the most beautiful performance.

CREDITS

Concept & performance : Gaëtan Rusquet

SHOWS

11.2010 - Festival Accionmad, Matadero(ES)

03.2011 - La Bellone, Brussels(BE)

04.2011 - Volksroom, Brussels(BE)

04.2011 - Artpotheek, Brussels(BE)

09.2011 - Antifestival, Kuopio(FI)

07.2012 - Festival Variable, Aubagne(FR)

09.2012 - Festival Infr’action, Sète(FR)

09.2016 - Festival Phenomens, Barcelona(ES)

09.2016 - Centro Cultural Puertas de Castilla, Murcia(ES)

09.2017 - Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam(NL)

09.2022 - Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam(NL)

09.2022 - Bonts Day, GC Dekroon, Brussels(BE)

06.2024 - Nuit Blanche, Le Générateur, Paris(FR)

PRESS:

http://konsthopp.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/back-and-forth/

http://highlike.org/gaetan-rusquet/

Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts Volume 17, Issue 1, 2012
Special Issue: On Failure