"Münd - Développement photographique"

Collective exhibit at Centre de Photographie, Genève
December 2010 - February 2011

Antony Hequet
Aprille Best Glover
Simon Edelstein
Natalia Stepanova
Leo Ellwood

Genève est une ville qui peut présenter un visage lisse, prospère, celui des banques, des montres de luxe, des grandes fortunes, des voiliers filant sur le lac… Mais sous cette apparence de conformité se cache une seconde vie secrète et subtile des corps.

Geneva can present a smooth and prosperous face: banks, luxury watches, wealth, yachts sailing on the lake. At second glance, this face can reveal other facets, more stern: moral values and charities, international organizations and institutions, the CERN research center. The sweet face of dignity, not of vulgar opulence… But behind this veil of conformity, lies hidden a secret and subtle life rooted in the body.

Elle est tantôt violente, tantôt provocatrice, érotique, elle s'exprime en termes d'interférences, de déraillements, de changements soudains de comportement, de poésie, d'ironie, de sabotage, de cynisme.

Münd is a sound vibration and a weave of mystery which disturb public order and resonate in our bodies. Münd provokes sudden manifestations of our secret nature: poetic, exuberant, unpredictable. Music, dance, jumps into the lake, arbitrary arrests, eroticism, collective poetic gestures, provocation, enigmas, figures stemming from ancient and contemporary myths…

Elle parle de la seconde peau des gens qui nous entourrent. Ce sont ces instants que nous avons essayé de rendre visibles à travers une série de court métranges (clips), qui mélangent la fiction et la réalité.

The photographic developments of Münd show a series of impressions, moments when the bodies unveil an aspect of their wild nature, subtle or shameless.

exposition evolutive. sculpture vivante. espaces sacrés.

Théâtre du Grütli
Restaurant de la maison des arts
15 janvier 2010 - 6 février 2011
Performance Poésie collective le 27 janvier à 19h

Aprille Best Glover
Antony Hequet

A quoi servent les mythes, les légendes, les contes et la poésie?

Se sentir en communion avec les éléments devrait être une chose simple, pourtant le sentiment d'être un avec le cosmos nous élude. Depuis des millénaires, les hommes élaborent des techniques pour surmonter cette aliénation. Chaque peuple à les siennes: le Zen, le Tao, les rituels amérindiens, les orgies dionysiaques, autant de façons de briser le carcan de la civilisation pour s'unir aux énergies élémentales. Chaque nouvelle génération doit réapprendre à créer cette communion...
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Design Conceptualization and Münd

Poets communicate on many levels through their texts. The best are distinguished for probing into a multiplicity of concepts and philosophies, with each theme illuminating the others. Often these ideas are in opposition to each other, creating a tension that is in turns emotional and intellectual. Münd is a work that explores a multiplicity of tensions - between harmony and chaos, between the individual and authority, between the natural and digital world, between shamanic ecstasy and urban alienation.

The elements of intellectual counterpoint provided for the genesis of the set, in particular, an analogy between the worlds of prehistoric Europe and contemporary life in its urban centers. The visual elements are both familiar from local history and everyday life and strange in their new context. Audiences are all too accustomed to seeing shamanic worldview in the tired cliché of some noble savage, who is a Disney-fied other and whose origins are exotic tourist locations and thus having no implications to their own lives. Münd focus on generating a common local sacred space for both the performer and the audience rather than set design that the audience views thru an imaginary window.

Theater is about human conflict. A work that presents just viewpoint lacks the ability to inspire an audience to ponder their place within the larger human experience. Theater can be the form of a debate where ideas are stated and reinforced, but are also simultaneously called into question by other ideas and implications. In this type of performance, the audience becomes "partners" in the work as they each struggle to resolve these conflicts in their own mind. It reflects a worldview where easy answers are non-existent, and reality is found in struggle, turmoil, and questioning artificial boundaries. It is this exactly this conflict in the poetry and music of Münd that makes it a work of the theatre in ancient sacred sense rather than either music or poetry.

Aprille Best Glover