You're kindly invited for a PERFORMANCE and ARTIST TALK with
visual artist AGNÈS GEOFFRAY on SUNDAY 2/12/2007, @ Echo.Base,
Ambtmanstraat 16b, 2000 Antwerp.
visual artist AGNÈS GEOFFRAY on SUNDAY 2/12/2007, @ Echo.Base,
Ambtmanstraat 16b, 2000 Antwerp.
You're very welcome to watch, talk and exchange with a drink and some fingerfood.
www.agnesgeoffray.com
www.echobase.be
Program:
DOORS, 7p.m.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE, 8p.m. :
The enchanted ones (11 songs)
I am presenting here short fictional stories inspired by daily news in the
form of songs, very much in the style of popular songs of a bygone era,
where news items were orally transmitted. The songs are short with a
tormenting chorus and sung from the point of view of the interpreter : ‘I’,
therefore involving directly the character of the story.
I am interested in developing fragments of short stories, and experience
their ability to circulate within a popular context as well as how they settle
within the imaginary of the listener. The stories are deformed, therefore
diluting the authenticity of the tale, they mediate between the familiar and
the uncanny. Their rhythm corresponds to the one of nursery rhymes and
popular songs with a chorus. Agnès Geoffray
ABOUT THE ARTIST TALK, 8.30p.m. :
More than an artist talk it will be a pictures talk. The idea is to share my own archive, personal or found, which has built my present work. Create and show the link between these none artistic pictures and my own artistic work. Agnés Geoffray
www.agnesgeoffray.com
www.echobase.be
Program:
DOORS, 7p.m.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE, 8p.m. :
The enchanted ones (11 songs)
I am presenting here short fictional stories inspired by daily news in the
form of songs, very much in the style of popular songs of a bygone era,
where news items were orally transmitted. The songs are short with a
tormenting chorus and sung from the point of view of the interpreter : ‘I’,
therefore involving directly the character of the story.
I am interested in developing fragments of short stories, and experience
their ability to circulate within a popular context as well as how they settle
within the imaginary of the listener. The stories are deformed, therefore
diluting the authenticity of the tale, they mediate between the familiar and
the uncanny. Their rhythm corresponds to the one of nursery rhymes and
popular songs with a chorus. Agnès Geoffray
ABOUT THE ARTIST TALK, 8.30p.m. :
More than an artist talk it will be a pictures talk. The idea is to share my own archive, personal or found, which has built my present work. Create and show the link between these none artistic pictures and my own artistic work. Agnés Geoffray
2 comments:
Posing. The case of the photo album with models tied into impossible poses. Do the models know why they are there? Fixed? If they are in the picture, are they in on the secret? A secret that begs again and again to be told, but in begging, gets blurred by more and more overexposures.
So the idea came that I should pose. Then I could tell again the story of over-exposure.
Investigtion is suspended into the deaths of artists AG and MR for lack of clues. Their bodies were found at the Belgium pavillion of the world expo in Zaragoza.
A common interest in photographer Charles Jeandel, known almost exclusively for his mysterious album of female nudes, seems to have brought both artists to Zaragoza. The album,- which had gone missing from the musée d’Orsay archives some months before-, was found in the hands of the bronze Jan Fabre sitting in his bath reading. The women in Jeandels pictures are all tied with ropes to a wooden frame, keeping them in torturous positions, some with erotic tendency, but suggesting suspension, as in flight, or floating.
AG was found in a coma, starved and later died in intensive care. She was locked into caravan with no opening but a peep hole. The caravan was parked in front of the pictures by Christine Felten en Véronique Massinger, who had used a similar caravan as a camera obscura for producing their work.
MR’s body was found in a filled bathtub, skin dyed blue in stripes. The coloring was obtained by cyanotype, which is the photographic printing method supposedly used by Jeandel for his album of nudes. This method from the early days of photography is widely known among present day photographers because it can be easily used to print on any absorbent surface. It is not clear whether the cause of death was drowning or cyanide poisoning, due to impurity in the photographic emulsion.
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