FROM STANDSTILL TO MOVEMENT, FROM MASKED SILENCE TO WORN WORDS: ALWAYS EXPERIMENTING...
2020: Like a furious desire to put words back into movement, back on the front line. A desire for movement, assertive gestures, committed bodies. To rediscover the public space and adorn it with poetry. A passage of words, poetic impromptus.
And the ‘suitcase’ object so dear to Compagnie Carabosse is writing a new story. A communal object that at the same time asserts something of the intimate. These suitcases will take our individual stories on a journey, and they will take words on a journey. All the while tracing a poetic cartography of territories.
Porte-paroles’ is an artistic project for the region, conceived as an original space for encounters with local people, based around the different phases and disciplines of creation.
After an initial design residency in 2020, the first stage took place from September to December 2021 with Culture-Commune - scène nationale du Bassin Minier du Pas de Calais. Having survived the curfews, the first group of Porte-Paroles made their first poetic claims on our memories in December 2021: ‘Les mamelles de Loos...’ shone with all their generosity.
This research is in gestation, and will continue in its own time, in other forms, with other artists, other disciplines, around other themes.
This journey will lead us to a final form that remains open to this day. We want to be surprised by these Por
Porte-Paroles #1
In partnership with Culture Commune - scène nationale du Bassin Minier du Pas de Calais.
Project with the residents of Loos-en Gohelle / September to December 2021.
Porte-Paroles #1 offers a group of local people the chance to share in the experience of creation through a series of workshops, followed by a performance of the show ‘Installation de Feu’ on 5 December 2021, to coincide with the Fêtes de la Sainte Barbe (Saint Barbara's Day celebrations).
Artistic director: Nadine Guinefoleau Coordination: Armelle Chenu
Writing workshops to bring words to life, including local words, with poet-musician Denis Péan.
Plastic workshops to help words travel in the light of our flames, led by visual artist Armelle Chenu, assisted by Olivier Vérone.
Presence and movement workshops to harmonise the movement of the Spokespeople, taking ownership of the word, the space, wearing it and asserting it. Workshops led by actor Ilijana Vukmir Damour.
Photographer Kalimba is an integral part of the project, present throughout. His photographic portraits sketch out a memory of the spokespeople, as well as a poetic cartography of the area.
Eventually, this will form a ‘community’ of Porteurs de Paroles. Why not one day invite them all to write the longest poem in the world?