Gaëtan Rusquet

Unity

Performance — sound & voice experiment — 2016
Unity is a solo performance, a sound experimentation, vocal, white noise, bees recordings in lemon tree fields, the word «one» repeated as a mantra until its meaning transforms. From the individual to its disappearance in the mass, from singular to plural – the sound, the vibration – are used here as tools to question the nature...Read more

Based on an almost true story. S02

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2015
_active air & sound performance, created at iMAL – Center for digital culture and technology (Brussels, Belgium) in March 2015_ #S01remix #ultimate crisis touch #battlefield recording #papers #chaff  #drone #laser #tower An arranged collection of disaster and recourses personnals and collectives (the permanent apocalypse according to JG Ballard versus a lolcat’s armada), and some technological...Read more

© Hichem Dahes

based on an almost true story. S01

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2013
based on An Almost True Story. S01 is a Euro-American science fiction comedyby Lucille Calmel & Gaëtan Rusquet based on An Almost True Story. S01 is a response to the relay command “Crisis? What crisis?” in a fitted collection of personal and collective disasters and actions (a permanent apocalypse according to JG Ballard versus a chorus of...Read more

Pastorale

durational — Installation — Performance — 2011
Pastorale is a response to the Antoine Pickels’s invitation to share the space of the great hall from Les Halles de Schaerbeek for the Trouble Festival. With eight performers, the artists were invited to produce a three hour durational performance,under the title : The Great Gallery of Living Sculpture, in daylight, with no sound amplification. As in...Read more

© Mathias Nouel

back-and-forth

Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2010
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.

De deux choses l’une

durational — Performance — Sculpture — 2009
De deux Choses l’une (It’s one of two Things) is a durational and sculptural performance which questions the notions of heritage, remembrance and oblivion. Originally it was made to be performed in parallel to Eglantine Chaumont’s performance Tu me tues (You’re killing me).  Both performances have the same kind of ritualised use of the matter as...Read more

Je d’espace

digital art — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2009
Je d’espace is a sound installation – sometimes performed – which dematerialize reality to the sight through a physical device that, with the use of sub-bass and it’s mecanical effect(the vibration), transforms the limits of the matter.   In a dark room, at the center of the space is a four-sided column made of one way...Read more

© Elodie Timmermans

D’ici là

Performance — public space — 2009
A baroque and ghostly figure blindly crosses different locations, connecting indoors and outdoor spaces, private and public, through walking and groping. Spectators or witnesses are invited to follow them on their wanderings. Two versions of this performance exist, one by day and one by night. The daytime version’s path is defined by the direction of...Read more