The (dark-)room
adaptated from the Diary 1979-1983
of Alix Cléo- Roubaud
Duplications
European strolling show 2010
Project at the crossroads of drama, photography and literature
WE ARE LOOKING FOR PARTNERS!!
Interested in human and artistic exchanges with foreign cultures,
in the field of: pluridisciplinarity
The project is fist based on encounter with ohter cultures around the personality of Alix Cléo Roubaud and the artistic work of the company.
* The show
The (dark-) room is a show made up of excerpts taken from the diary of Alix Cléo Roubaud. It displays her mental and photographic world. The scenography and the lighting are determined by the visual world of the photographer.
It focuses on the contradiction there is between her happy married life and her incurable ill-being, also probably due to the long hours spent in her solitary room because of severe asthma that contaminates her diary and her photographic production ; the contradiction too between her unremetting need to write and her basic need to take refuge in the silence of photography.
Now and again, Jacques Roubaud's presence will echo the world of the photographer, when he will be reading passages from his poetry anthology Something black as a posthumous answer to Alix in the form of a dialogue with her diary.
** The exhibition
With the support of Jacques Roubaud and the photography Gallery of Aurillac, the Company proposes an exhibition of photos by Alix, among which the series displayed in Arles in 1983 « If something dark ».
*** The Arts reading-encounters
Starting from Jacques Roubaud's poetry Anthology something dark , the diary of Alix echo his poems.
**** Jean Eustache's short film, « The photos of Alix », shot in 1980.
Alix Cléo-Roubaud, a friend of Jean Eustache, comments on photos she has made, but the connection between what she writes and what we can see on the screen becomes more and more complicated. (Performers: Alix Cléo-Roubaud, Boris Eustache, directed by Jean Eustache. 19 mn).
more information: www.athra.fr
Tagged as:
diffusion, europe, literature, photography, pluridsciplinarity, theatre
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