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VIDEOFORMES presents :
“Anamnesis” by Jeannie Brie & Colin Petit – RPT Collective
Audio-Visual Performance
Friday, June 25th | 6:30 pm > 8 pm
Chapelle de l’Oratoire | Free access
“Anamnesis”
Jeannie Brie & Colin Audio-Visual Performance | 2021
Anamnèse wants to question the mechanism of memory through an analog audiovisual performance using the medium of magnetic tape to materialize this process. Indeed, if digital technologies allow to store and restore very precisely images and sounds, the signal inscribed on a magnetic tape has the capacity to be altered, to undergo like memory the work of time.
Here, video recorders and tape recorders work on the same principle: the tape, mounted in a loop, repeats itself endlessly. But by modifying it, erasing it, and re-recording it, the images and sounds are superimposed and self-sustaining.
“This project was born from the desire to bring together our two practices: whether video or sound, we manipulate magnetic tape in a similar way. In addition to this functional analogy, our approaches meet and complement each other in their experimental and performative approach as well as in the search for correlation between gesture, image and sound. The mechanisms of memory will be materialized by the device itself. The sound and the image will be fixed on physical supports, activated by mechanical elements that imply a real gesture in their manipulation. The bands fixed on themselves become loops, they will be stretched and will take place in the space. The performance is thus imagined in its entirety, as a representation of the mechanisms of memory.” – Jeannie Brie
Jeannie Brie is a video artist who graduated from ENSAD – Nancy in 2014. She now lives and works in Nancy at the artist studio Ergastule. Her work is mainly deployed in the form of installations and audiovisual performances. Between real-life shots, archival images and studio experiments, she creates libraries of images that constitute her “visual ranges”. Real-time video manipulation allows her to develop non-linear narratives in which she questions our relationship to memory and time. Her research, which explores the relationship between image, sound and gesture, leads her to collaborate with numerous musicians, dancers and visual artists (RPT, Temps partiel, Big Shit & His TV Wonder…).
Colin Petit is an improvising musician, saxophonist, electro-acoustician and teacher. He started playing saxophone at the Lillebonne School of Music in Nancy. He learns very early the taste of the improvisation, with musicians of the collective EMIL 13 (Musical and Improvised Experiences in Lorraine). Afterwards, he joins the department of music to improvise of the Conservatory of Strasbourg from which he graduates in 2012. There he refined his approach to free improvisation, gradually detaching himself from tonal structures to develop a much more noisy discourse. This research leads him to explore the tools of real time sound processing, first by computer, before devoting himself to analog tools, especially tape recorders which are at the heart of his electro-acoustic practice.
https://demaindamas.bandcamp.com/
https://status-noise.bandcamp.com/