PROJECT PRESENTATION
During the first part of her residency in April 2017, Mercedes Azpilicueta developed a research into several artistic figures and trajectories, through meetings with art historians and critics, visits to museums and archive, and long strolls through the city and its underground — which she perceived as a place of collective resistance, where bodies perform differently from overground. She wrote a diary, hells, smells & shame, which served both as a draft script.
During the second part of her residency in January & February 2018, Mercedes Azpilicueta will develop a script for a filmed performance, based on a series of working sessions with choreographer Pauline Simon, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias (performer and performance maker, and a practitioner of perceptive somatic-psychoeducation), performer Emmanuelle Lafon, theorist Myriam Suchet and curator Virginie Bobin (Villa Vassilieff) ; as well as on collective workshops with students from Paris 8 University, Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Additional workshops will take place at Cité Internationale des Arts on February 2 & 3 as part of We Are Not the Number that We Think We Are, a 36-hour event produced by Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff.
During the second part of her residency in January & February 2018, Mercedes Azpilicueta will develop a script for a filmed performance, based on a series of working sessions with choreographer Pauline Simon, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias (performer and performance maker, and a practitioner of perceptive somatic-psychoeducation), performer Emmanuelle Lafon, theorist Myriam Suchet and curator Virginie Bobin (Villa Vassilieff) ; as well as on collective workshops with students from Paris 8 University, Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Additional workshops will take place at Cité Internationale des Arts on February 2 & 3 as part of We Are Not the Number that We Think We Are, a 36-hour event produced by Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff.
Mercedes Azpilicueta will also produce a series of props and « visual mnemonics » in collaboration with artist and designer Lucile Sauzet.
Parts of these activities will be recorded in collaboration with film-maker Hélène Harder, with the aim of producing a film in the course of the year 2018.
A work by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Pink popping plank, is presented in the exhibition Akademia : Performing Life, on view at Villa Vassilieff from January 13 to March 24, 2018. Curated by Solvita Krese & Inga Lāce (Latvian Center for Contemporary Art).
The work is all at once a sculpture, a set, a script, a score, and will be activated during a series of workshops taking place in the exhibition.
The work is all at once a sculpture, a set, a script, a score, and will be activated during a series of workshops taking place in the exhibition.
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