VIDEOBAR #84 + Exposition

Garance Alvès & Marie George – “Mue”
Performative installation | 2021

As part of a residency, VIDEOFORMES invites Garance Alves and Marie George to invest the Chapelle de l’Oratoire with an interdisciplinary research project linking dance and visual art. The resulting project – MUE – is presented in partnership with Arts en Balade 2021 from May 27 to 30.

MUE is an interdisciplinary research project linking dance and visual art, developed as a performative installation project bringing together a choreographic solo and a work of drawn animation. Animated projections are superimposed on the dancer’s body with which she interacts. These animations are envisaged as fragments of the “memory of the body”. The movement unfolds and repeats itself in various forms, leaving behind the trace of its passage. Mue explores several modalities of interaction between the video and the present body, working on the notion of disturbance in the perception of the body, of the space in which it is inscribed and of the relationships at stake within the device. This work is constructed in two forms, a choreographic piece and a video installation, which is presented to you today.

Garance Alves is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary work revolves around the concept of “second skin”. She works with everyday objects and in particular clothes, considered as vectors of fragments of history, revealing in part their owners.

Marie George is a choreographic artist, also involved in university research activities applied to the field of dance, she articulates these two fields of work to feed her choreographic reflections.