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Lou Masduraud
Chemin des églantines, 5
CH-1219 Geneva
Switzerland
+ 41 77 427 22 17
+ 33 621 22 41 65
[email protected]
www.loumasduraud.com
www.masduraud-bellini.com
space through space
what
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test
LOU MASDURAUD
Education
2012-2014 - Master’s of Fine Art, Jury’s congratulations
Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva, CH
2009-2012 - DNAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, FR
1996-2006 - Conservatory, Vocals, Montpellier, FR
Performances
2015
2014
2013
- PULSE big bodies, Swiss Performance Art Award, Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH ( upc )
- PULSE big bodies, Théatre de l’Usine, Geneva, CH ( upcoming )
- Pas de bourrée, pas de biche, Centre culturel PHAKT, Rennes, FR ( upcoming )
- 29 ideas, festival okay confiance, Atelier de Lorette, Marseille, FR
- Space through space, what you hear is not a test, festival .perf, BAC, Geneva, CH
- Performance proletarians!!! Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble, FR
- Night of the tumbler on fire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
- Generator, CAN, Neuchatel, CH
- Pas de bourrée, pas de biche, Parc Saint Leger, CAC, Pougues les Eaux, FR
- Forme, Magnétisme, Industrie, Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
- Om, CNSMD, Paris, FR
- Chaine d’excitation, de l’outre à l’oreille, Centre d’Art Plastique, Saint Fons, FR
Selected shows
2015
2014
2013
2012
- From you through them to situation, From them through situation to you
solo show, BF15, Biennale Musique en scène, Lyon, FR ( upcoming )
- Jeune création, Paris, FR ( upcoming )
- Duo show Territoire des songes, Galerie du Crous, Rennes, FR ( upcoming )
- #00 Chantier(s), Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, FR
- Crossfading, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, CH
- 6 - 4 - 2, Moving Images Biennial, LIYH, Geneva, CH
- Enseigner comme des adolescents, Veme Marrakech Biennial, MA
- Au bout le sud après encore, Centre d’Art Plastique, Saint Fons, FR
- Raout, une saison en enfer, Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
- Waterproof, Urgent Paradise, Lausanne, CH
- Le Trou, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, CH
Concerts
2013
2003
2002
2001
- Forme, Magnétisme, Industrie, Wildrfid record release party, DAS, Geneva, CH
- Le Grillon, Maurice Ravel, soloist, Theatre Jean Vilar, Montpellier
- Die Zauberflöte, Soloist, Corum, Montpellier, FR
- Rizurectionne, Soloist, Festival de Radio France, Corum, Montpellier, FR
- Pollicino, Soloist - title role - Opéra Comédie, Montpellier, FR
Residencies
2016
2015
2014
- TITANIK A.I.R, Turku, Finland ( upcoming )
- SummerLake, Art research residency, ESAAA, Annecy, FR ( upcoming )
- Studio of ADC, Maison des Arts du Grütli, Geneva, CH ( upcoming )
- Résidency in Radio PICNIC, Berlin, DE
Award
2015
- Grant from the City of Geneva «Aide à la création pluridisiplinaire»
- Grant from the Loterie romande
Talk
2014
- Conference with Lili Reynaud Dewar, Benjamin Valenza, Mathis Collins
et Axelle Stiefel, ESAD, Grenoble, FR
- Conversation with Charlotte Laubard, 6 - 4 - 2, BIM, Moving Image Biennal
Live In Your Head, Geneva, CH
Bibliography
2015
Born and Die, Chantier(s), Catalog (200 ex.) Born and Die, Paris
Multiples
2015
All through skin ( 30ex. ) Edition/Production .perf , Geneva ( upcoming )
Lecture au soleil ( 25 ex. ) Risography, Edition/Production Born and Die, Paris
Publications
2015
FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER, Edition Clinamen, Geneva ( upcoming )
2014
FEEL SO GOOD, une forme d’écoute - master thesis directed by Christophe Kihm
2012-2013 Redaction for «artpress» magazine
Statement
I want to turn the exhibition space into a place of
enhancement of vitality and intense pragmatic
experiances.
I take part in my sound installations with Antoine Bellini
as performers.
I consider these performances as a shift of situation,
as a time of choregraphic presentation (rather than a
representation), an intensification of relations between
objects and the audiance’s bodies.
I use the sound phenomenon as a stimulating plastic
element. The exhibition space becomes a vibrating
background where I build animist relations with objects
and where I lead plays between elastic bodies stimulated
by sound.
The exhibition space becomes the privileged place where
experience and alternate realities are possible if we’re
willing to consider the experience as the very meaning of
this construction.
SELECTED PROJECTS
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Muscles or wires
Space through space,
what you hear is not a test
3. No information, pattern for
public sector
4. Performance Proletarians ! Join us !!!
5. Flat reverb
6. Behind the curtain
7. Twenty nine ideas
8. Pas de bourrée, pas de biche
9. good good good good
( vibrations )
10. Body Flat
11. Chaine d’excitation, de
l’outre à l’oreille
12. Om
Sounds and videos records are aviable on line : active links in this pdf
1. Muscles or wires / Lou Masduraud
Muscles or wires
Sound Sculpture, 2015
170 x 25 x 35 cm
Leather, speakers, sneakers, electric wires
Muscles or Wires is a sound sculpture from the figure of Frankenstein and from cyborgs.
It’s an electric body in a handstitched tube of leather. The sound produced is composed by a
syntheziseur and represent the sound generated by defective electric circuits.
Short video : https://vimeo.com/121534698
1. Muscles or wires / Lou Masduraud
2. Space through space, What you hear is not a test / Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini
Space through space, What you hear is not a test
festival .perf, Introduction to the Performance Swiss Art Award, Le Commun,
Contemporary Art Center, Genève, CH
1 novembre 2014
Sound perfromance with Antoine Bellini
Light : Florian Leduc
This performance is about sound propagation and his continuous distortion between space and
corps.The relationship with what you hear is the heart of this piece, from a simple resonance to a
trance state. I explore differents sounds and audio effects on my body and his movements.
Thoses connections are materialized by costumes designed to fit speakers and dancers as well.
View an extract from the end of the performance : https://vimeo.com/110897232
3. No information, pattern for public sector / Lou Masduraud
No information, pattern for public sector
6 - 4 - 2, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, BIM 2014, Live in your Head, Genève
Sound Sculpture
Aluminium, 8 industrial speakers
3m x 1,20m x 1,20m
No information, pattern for public sector is a sound sculpture broadcasting a repetitive
synthetizer sequence at low volume.
This tall and authoritarian looking sculpture intends to drive the exhibition space to a
more scenic and social area. The 6 - 4 - 2 exhibiion is a projection space curated by Yann
Chateigné around the american composer Robert Ashley and a group of experimental
performers, actors and musicians, the « Once Group »
Link to hear a sound record : https://soundcloud.com/resonnance/tecno-public
3. No information, pattern for public sector / Lou Masduraud
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TECHNO
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4. Perfromance Proletarians ! Join us !!!- Space that will not be recorded / Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini
Performance Proletarians ! Join us !!!
Space that will not be recorded
Sound Performance filmed and broadcasted from Le Magasin with Antoine Bellini
National Contemporary Art Center,Grenoble, France
10 octobre 2014 - 30 minutes
« Space that will not be recorded » is our proposition for the project of Lili Reynaud Dewar and
Benjamin Valenza « Performance Proletarians !!! Join us !!!», a program of performances filmed
in the auditorium of the Magasin and broadcast live on youtube.
Our performance is about the constraint to transcribe by vidéo a sound performance
and the «off-space»
See an extract : https://vimeo.com/122092058
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website of the project : www.performanceproletarians.com
4. Perfromance Proletarians ! Join us !!!- Space that will not be recorded / Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini
SCREEN
5. Flat reverb / Lou Masduraud
Flat reverb
Sculpture, Sound diffusion
steel plate, acoustic panels, contact microphones, vibrating speaker, synthesyzer
Flat reverb is a sculpture that spreads the sound of a syntesizeur through a large steel plate,
which oscillates and transforms the sound with a reverberation effect.
The modified sound is recieved by contact microphones, re-amped and spread straight on
to acoustic panels.
5. Flat reverb ( with hands ) / Lou Masduraud
6. Behind the curtain / Lou Masduraud
Behind the curtain
Sound Sculpture, 2014
steel, brass, leather, speaker on stand
240< x >320 cm / ø 65 cm
Behind the curtain is a sound sculpture that spread the sound of a little syntesizer through
a leather curtain.
The leather skin becomes the second membrane of the speaker and the sound is formed
with this second skin, which transforms it and turns it smooth.
7. Twenty nine ideas / Lou Masduraud
Twenty nine ideas
Palais de Tokyo, Le Point perché, Paris
Sound performance
27 juillet 2014 - 10 minutes
Twenty nine ideas is a sound performance that represents the system of ideas coming
together and the thinking pattern through an electric system.
I am wearing a costume on which are taped several light bulbs.
A wireless microphone is hidden in my sleeve and amplifies the sound of the tape that I tear
out in order to pick a light bulb off my suit and plug it in the electrical system on the wall.
The performance is over when the two eyes made out of the twenty nine light bulbs are
completed.
7. Twenty nine ideas / Lou Masduraud
8. Pas de bourrrée, pas de biche / Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini
Pas de bourrée, pas de biche
Parc Saint Leger, Contemporary Art Center, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France
Sound performance with Antoine Bellini
23 mars 2014 - 20 minutes
Pas de bourrée, pas de biche is a performance in which Lou Masduraud dances with Sarah Tritz’s sculptures exhibited in the Parc Saint Leger. We had hung in the middle of that
exhibition, in between two metallic sculptures, our own sculpture called good good good
good (vibrations) which interacts with the magnetism surrounding it. The movements of Lou
Masduraud are the magnetic source of a strange melody, which is manipulated during the
performance by Antoine Bellini.
See an extract : http://vimeo.com/90546051
8. Pas de bourrrée, pas de biche / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
9. good good good good good (vibrations) / Lou Masduraud
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Sound sculpture / Thérémin instrument
Wood, leather, élèctronics
123 x 50 x 50 cm
good good good good (vibrations) is a sculpure that is sensitive to magnetism, it produces
sounds according to the physical and magnetic activity happening around it.
It is about translating distances and positions into sound.
good is a sculptural research integrated to various projects, an object around which I build
other researches, performances and concerts.
The electronic system, the calibration and the optimisation of the sound width of the basic
system (a Moog Etherwave) were operated by Thierry Frenkel, an engineer and a specialist
of the first generation of electronic instruments.
10. Body flat / Lou Masduraud
Body flat
Sculpture
135x50x40cm
Wood, cork
Two spreakers cabinets on top of each other are empty.
These two structures wich used to host speakers and create sound are now being cut
through by the sound athmosphere of the room and recieve residual waves.
11. Chaine d’excitation, de l’outre à l’oreille / Lou Masduraud
Chaine d’excitation, de l’outre à l’oreille
Centre d’Art Plastique ( Fine Art Center ) Saint-Fons, France
Sound performance
17 avril 2013 -15 minutes
This performance is about the intense industrial memory of the city of Saint-Fons, located in
the suburb of Lyon.
A large steel plate vibrates with sounds provided by two similar forms, also electronic musical
instruments, devices and stage design objects.
The reverberation effect created by the vibration of the steel sheet is strongly amplified.
By carrying objects, caressing them, positioning them, I compose simultateously a strange
sensual image and an industrial music piece.
11. Chaine d’excitation, de l’outre à l’oreille / Lou Masduraud
12. Om / Lou Masduraud
Om
Concervatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, Paris
Sound Sculpture & Performance with Alvise Sinivia
25 janvier 2013, Paris
Béton, steel, aluminium, low frequencies speaker
A speaker broadcasts a frequency around 20Hz, hardly perceptible to human ears. The metallic
membrane in front of the speaker vibrates sympathetically.
The performance is an improvised dialog between Carmen Lefrançois on barytone saxophone
and the Om sculpture.
Short clip of the sculpture moving : https://vimeo.com/121536320