Still Lives Installation starts in the streets of different cities (Essen, Halle, Lille, Bucharest and Berlin), where Good Work Productions’ team collects descriptions and comments on ’The Stumbling Block’, a photography by Canadian artist Jeff Wall. The collected sound material, free of any sensationalism, is reorganised towards creating a continuous soundtrack for the performances realised in each city. The connections between the different points of view taken by the interviewed persons provide the base for choreographic and scenic propositions.

In the cyclic installation version created in the context of ’Berliner Ermittlungen’, the dispositive is designed to confront the sound materials gathered in each city with one another. The transcriptions of all the interviews are projected on five screens, each dedicated to a specific place.

The actual juxtaposition of paroles and statements expressed in different cities allows to observe and highlight similarities and differences in perceiving Jeff wall’s image and in positioning towards it.

More generally, ’The Stumbling Block’ functions here as a filter – its descriptions give an insight on the interviewed people, their different ways of perceiving the world, their social realities, as well as a sketch for an affective portrait of the places where they live.

STILL LIVES / BERLIN – Installation Version

Good Work Productions / Cie Isabelle Schad

GIES, POCHERON, PELMUS, SCHAD

Concept and realisation: Frederic Gies, Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Pocheron, Isabelle Schad

Production: Good Work Productions / Cie Isabelle Schad

In the frame of Berliner Ermittlungen at Tanzfabrik Berlin

Technical realisation: Olivier Heinry, Bruno Pocheron

Supported by: Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin, Pact-Zollverein Essen, Goethe Institut Bukarest,

Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti/National Dance Center Bucharest, Latitudes Contemporaines Lille, Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe Halle.

This specific formulation of the credits has to be respected by any venue presenting this project in any published document.

2005 Still Lives in Berlin, installation version

August 11th / 12th 2006, 21.00 – 24.00 in Studio 1, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

GIES, POCHERON, PELMUS, SCHAD / Good Work Productions / Cie Isabelle Schad | Concept and realisation: Frederic Gies, Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Pocheron, Isabelle Schad | Production / management: Wassili Zygouris | Technical realisation: Olivier Heinry, Bruno Pocheron

Still Lives starts in the streets of different cities (Essen, Halle, Lille, Bucharest and Berlin), where Good Work Productions’ team collects descriptions and comments on ’The Stumbling Block’, a photograph by Canadian artist Jeff Wall. The collected sound material, free of any sensationalism, is reorganised towards creating a continuous soundtrack for the performances realised in each city. The connections between the different points of view taken from the interviewees provide the basis for choreographic and scenic propositions.

In the cyclic installation version created in the context of ’Berliner Ermittlungen’, the dispositive is designed to confront the sound materials gathered in each city with one another. The transcriptions of all the interviews are projected on five screens, each dedicated to a specific place. The actual juxtaposition of words and statements expressed in different cities allows the viewer to observe and highlight similarities and differences in perceiving Jeff wall’s image and in positioning towards it. More generally, ‘The Stumbling Block’ functions here as a filter – its descriptions give an insight into the interviewees, their different ways of perceiving the world, their social realities, as well as a sketch for an affective portrait of the places where they live.

Supported by: Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin, Pact-Zollverein Essen, Goethe Institut Bukarest, Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti/National Dance Center Bucharest, Latitudes Contemporaines Lille, Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe Halle.

See online: Tanzfabrik website