Meanwhile, (the wall)

durational — Installation — Performance — sound — 2013

Meanwhile, questions our relationship to architecture and (personal or global) disaster. This project started out with the desire to carry on a work based on vibrations produced by sub-bass sounds. It was experimented in a previous installation called Je d'espace. Similarly to the Back-and-forth performance, the body is very much engaged in the process of shaping the matter.

Here the shaping of matter dictates movement as the performers build something up, hold it, or let it collapse or build it up again. In this simple and minimalist process, they repeat the same task which conveys a sense of time that stretches out.

In the end, there is an ephemeral sculpture with different volumes which conjure up either a miniature city or some architectural elements in different scales. Those volumes are made of foam board bricks which are often used in architecture to make models of cities and buildings. Powerful spotlights which produce a rather natural light are successively switched on to draw an itineray that we can follow through the space. The light works as a reference point and conveys a sense of a cyclic nature of time. As for the sound vibration, which travels back and forth through space outside or inside, sometimes it becomes concrete and disintegrates the erected volumes. The body of the performers goes from being strong and efficient to powerless in the face of the destruction of the matter.

This version of the performance is with the wall as a main architectural element, the wall is suitable for long spaces as churches (les brigittines, Frac Lorraine) or industrial warehouse (Le Magasin in Grenoble or the venue for Homonovus festival)

Duration : it can varies from one hour as a spectacular version with beginning and end, to four hours as a durational version.

CREDITS

Concept: Gaëtan Rusquet Sound design et live performance: Yann Leguay Performers: Amélie Marneffe, Gaëtan Rusquet, Claire Malchrowicz Light & space: Gaëtan Rusquet
programming: Jack Boyer Construction: Guillaume Bernier Production: Workspacebrussels, commission art numérique, Hiros With the support of: Volksroom Brussels, Wallonie Bruxelles International, MDT Stockholm, iMAL
Thanks to: Julia Irribaria, Julien Dubourg, Macha Planke, Lucille Calmel, Gillie Kleiman, Workspacebrussels, La Bellone Maison du Spectacle

SHOWS

12.12.2013 - 13.12.2013 working title, les brigittines, Brussels (BE) -wall-
31.07.2014 - 01.08.2014 Impulsanz, Vienna (AU) -wall-
29.08.2014 - 30.08.2014 MDT, Stockholm (SW) -tours-
12.09.2014 - 13.09.2014 Bastard, Theater Avant-Garden, Trondheim (NO) -tours-
10.01.2015 Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR) -wall-durational-
22.03.2015 Performatif, Kaaistudio, Brussels (BE) -tours-
11.04.2015 Do disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR) -tours-durational-
08.09.2015 - 09.09.2015 International festival of contemporary theatre, Homo Novas Riga (LV) -wall-
03.10.2015 Nuit blanche, La tentation, Brussels (BE) -tours-durational-
09.11.2016 - 10.11.2016 kaaistudio, Brussels (BE) -tours-
26.09.2017 Contemporanea Festival, Prato (IT) -wall-durational-
15.10.2017 Le Magasin, Grenoble (BE) -wall-durational-
16.02.2018 Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) -tours-
17.02.2018 Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) -tours-durational-
24.08.2018 Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen (FR) -wall-
15.09.2018 - 16.09.2018 Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels (BE) -tours-durational-
12.10.2018 Actoral, Marseille (FR) -tours-
13.10.2018 Actoral, Marseille (FR) -tours-durational-
28.06.2019 Festival Kanal, Brussels (BE) -tours-durational-

PRESS

Performance Research: Choreographic Architecture and Vital Knowledge. Gaëtan Rusquet’s Meanwhile (EN)
Behind the scenes of Meanwhile, at Centre Pompidou 04.2018
Mediapart: Meanwhile, une forme variable (FR)
Der Standard: Während sie bauen, tanzt der Boden (DE)
Der Standard: While they build, the ground is dancing (EN)
Nummer.se: Mot det oundvikliga fallet (SE)
Nummer.se: Towards the inescapable fall (EN)
Scenbloggen: Meanwhile, ett bygge (SE)Scenbloggen: Meanwhile, a building (EN)
ma culture: Entretien avec Gaëtan Rusquet 02.2018