Arts vivants
Lives Per Se
Like a Japanese Benshi – the narrators of silent films – Patrick Corillon handles objects, projects images, lights up his stories of encounters and inner journeys. He slowly builds a form of fiction by stirring together tradition spoken story telling (Benshi, kamishibai, cantastories, etc). His journey-tales bristle with surprises, are fed by anecdotes from his life and childhood. They invite the audience to open up to new thoughts, starting from the tangible and whisking them toward the philosophical. “Inner Lives” is seven performances accompanied by seven artist books which each contribute in their own way to a single universe, intimate and sensitive, erudite and bizarre, which marries high and popular culture, conceptual art and childish plasticine creations.
How can a mythical river, its name long forgotten, take us back to humanity’s forgotten past and our own memories of childhood?
How can an old family house, floorboards creaking and water-marked ceilings, take us on a voyage of discovery to deepest Indonesia?
How can finding a strange art work shock someone so much that they decide to commit to eternal silence?
A cat who hears all our secrets teaches us to speak the languages of the world just by listening to the sounds of nature.
A collection of mere bits of sticky tape, tacked to the stage so the players find their places in the dark, let us see in Technicolour.
How doing nothing and staring into empty space can be intense enough to turn us into explorers of the great white North Pole.
Could we believe that our daily life really hold something so surprising as a Fakir snake charmer or a man who sees with his hands?
The Abandoned Devil
A saga of sea-shanties.
Feeling the ocean is the search for the immensity which we so miss, that which perhaps exists nowhere on earth, but at the same time seemed so familiar to us, but so long ago, before it was lost forever.
A sentimental history of ventriloquism.
Great tiny voices presents the supposed destiny of ventriloquists, who with their art of speaking “through the stomach” have shifted around society over the centuries: From the holy (oracles and sprites) to satire (court jesters and power rivals) or simply on stage (in theatres or at fayres).
