LIST OF WORKS
TEAM AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jérôme Bel
Born in 1964, lives and works in Paris
Shirtology, 1997/2015
HD digital video, 25’
Shirtology, 1997
Solo performance, 25’
Performed by Frédéric Séguette
1000 2015
Performance for c. 30 people, 30’
CURATORS
Kathryn Weir
Director of Cultural Development Department
Serge Laurent
Head of Live Shows, Cultural Development
Department.
Julien Prévieux
Born in 1974, lives and works in Paris
What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2) 2014
HD digital video installation, 16’
What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #3) 2014
Performance in three modules, each 6’30’’
Olafur Eliasson
Born in 1967, lives and works in Copenhagen
and Berlin
Movement microscope 2011
HD digital video installation, 16’
Jocelyn Cottencin
Born in 1967, lives and works in Rennes and Paris
Monument 2014
HD digital video, 47’
Valérie Belin
Born in 1964, lives and works in Paris
& I COULD NEVER BE A DANCER
Carine Charaire, born in 1976, and Olivier
Casamayou, born in 1973, live and work in Paris
Performance 2013, Centre Pompidou
HD digital video, 28’
Directed by Claire Belin
600 Highwaymen
Abigail Browde, born in 1982, and Michael
Silverstone, born in 1980, live and work in
New York
The Record 2013
HD digital video, 61’
Xavier Le Roy
Born in 1963, lives and works in Paris
Product of circumstances 1999
Solo performance, 65’
Performed by Xavier Le Roy
Rosalind Nashashibi
Born in 1973, lives and works in London
Lovely Young People (Beautiful Supple Bodies) 2012
Digital video installation (transferred from
16 mm), 13’
ASSISTED BY
Evelyne Boutevin
Programme Manager
Lauriane Schulz and Malena Suburu
Trainees
Corinne Marchand
Stage Designer
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jérôme Bel, Claire Belin, Valérie Belin, Abigail
Browde, Matt Carter (LUX), Vincent Cavaroc,
Carine Charaire, Olivier Casamayou, Jocelyn
Cottencin, Olafur Eliasson, Sandro Grando, Janice
Guy (Murray Guy), Fanny Herserant, Rebecca Lee,
Xavier Le Roy, Rosalind Nashashibi, Julien
Prévieux, Michael Silverstone, Richard Swope, Dr.
Stephan Urbaschek (neugerriemschneider
gallery), Sophie Vigourous (Jousse Entreprise/
Contemporary art gallery).
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
From left to right
Jérôme Bel, Shirtology
© Herman Sorgeloos
600 Highwaymen, The Record
© Pierre Borasci
Jocelyn Cottencin, Monument
© Jocelyn Cottencin
Julien Prévieux, What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2)
© Julien Prévieux, Courtesy Jousse entreprise
CORPS SIMPLES
SHOW ME YOUR MOVES
28 MARCH 2015 - 20 APRIL 2015
Corps Simples | Show me your moves
stages points of contact between
choreography, contemporary art and
everyday actions through video works
and performances. In Movement
microscope, 2011, Olafur Eliasson brings
dance movements and the gestures of
production in an art studio together in a
literal way. He films a lyrical
choreography of street performers,
dancers and mime artists in slow
motion as they move around his studio,
juxtaposing them with the activities of
his assistants. Using the same principle
of the meeting between two registers of
bodily expression, in Lovely Young People
(Beautiful Supple Bodies), 2012, Rosalind
Nashashibi films young dancers in a
studio together with their audience : the
parents who slip into the room and look
at them, leaning against the wall, their
postures profiled against those of the
dancers.
The video What Shall We Do Next?
(Sequence #2), 2014, by Julien Prévieux
explores how our now everyday
technological gestures have followed
science fiction cinema. «Swipes» and
«drags» on mobile phone screens and
tablets have their origins in
blockbusters of popular culture such as
the Wachowskis’ Matrix, (1999).
Performance, 2013, by Valérie Belin & I
COULD NEVER BE A DANCER also
draws on popular culture, more
particularly the cult of Michael Jackson,
to show how fans’ identification takes
the physical form of mimicry of
gestures, expressions and dance
movements.
Monument, 2014, by the visual artist and
choreographer Jocelyn Cottencin
constructs tableaux vivants in a spirit of
apparent improvisation using the bodies
of dancers as raw material, magnifying
simple gestures into heroic ones. The
Record, 2013, by the New York theatre
duo 600 HIGHWAYMEN, involves
amateur extras executing simple
movements, their interaction creating a
new physical, wordless theatre. In a
similar way, Jérôme Bel’s Mille, 2015,
stages amateurs’ bodies. This time, a
single instruction is given to all the
performers to occupy them with a
simple task so that something else may
arise through less conscious bodily and
facial expression.
In Shirtology, 1998, Bel questions the
projection of an identity through the
prosaic slogans seen on everyday
clothes. The simple, minimalist action
of putting on a T-shirt emblazoned with
words or symbols is a gesture of both
identity and camouflage. Xavier Le
Roy’s Product of Circumstances, 1999,
also involves the production and
projection of a self. Le Roy mingles
theory and physical practice to present
a biography in a «performance lecture»,
a new genre that he has helped to
create. Drawing from his own life, he
links the area of dance and biology with
the specificities of his personal
experience.
Corps simples | Show me your moves
involves the multidisciplinary
exploration of the physical, where
contemporary art and dance mingle
with theatre, performance and film. The
works presented reveal a space where
apparently simple gestures and
movements question how the body
makes sense and constructs its own
language.
OPENING PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 28 MARCH
SUNDAY 29 MARCH
Temporary exhibition gallery
Temporary exhibition gallery
4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Julien Prévieux
What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #3),
2014
Performance in three modules, each
6’30’’
11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Julien Prévieux
What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #3),
2014
Performance in three modules, each
6’30’’
4.00 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.
Jérôme Bel
Shirtology, 1997
Solo performance, 12’
Performed by Frédéric Séguette
4.00 p.m.
Jérôme Bel
1000, 2015
Solo performance, 25’
Interpretation: Frédéric Séguette
Auditorium
5.00 p.m.
Jérôme Bel
Shirtology I, 1997
Solo performance, 9’
Performed by Frédéric Séguette
Xavier Le Roy
Product of circumstances 1999
Solo performance, 65’
Performed by Xavier Le Roy
Jérôme Bel
Shirtology II, 1997
Solo performance, 12’
Performed by Frédéric Séguette
7.00 p.m.
Conversation with Jérôme Bel,
Xavier Le Roy and Julien Prévieux
Introduced by Kathryn Weir and Serge
Laurent
Jérôme Bel
Shirtology III, 1997
Solo performance, 4’
Interpretation: Frédéric Séguette