THESE PATTERNS THAT INHABIT THEM_RITUAL

Crypt of Notre Dame de la Croix, Paris, March 2025

“These patterns that inhabit them” is the rite of a collective that reaffirms its belonging to a place, to a habitat that inhabits it and to its life cycle, of which it is an integral part. Entities come together to form the body-earth of a collective. These entities are wearing cartographic clothing that represent the way in which this collective makes the world. Each garment is made of two different fabrics with multiple fluid, organic shapes. The clash between these two different elements creates lines of encounters that are at once traces and paths, but also points of access, passages between an interior and an exterior or vice versa. Some of these sinuous lines that cross the entity’s bodies are white, they appear like mycelium and lightning bolts in the dark, as reference points, singular marks that run through the clothes and unite the collective.

Some of the cartographic clothing patterns are transposed into hybrid interior furniture consisting of two sound benches made of wood, fabric and electroacoustic components (speakers). Through these benches, linked to the entities by audio cables and contact microphones inserted between the skin and the garment, the collective’s body-earth resonates. From these patterns, from these benches, emerges the sound of an altered interiority, of an amplified intimacy that could be likened to lava gushing up from the surface of the ground, from a mapped landscape.

Two entities walk through this landscape playing their body-instruments, one with a bagpipe that becomes an extension of his own body and the other with her voice. Fueled by their breaths, and by the pressure exerted by one body on another, sound seeds emerge, scattered like a milky way. These sound forms are the product of two types of contact, one by the tapping and friction of two bodies picked up by micro-contacts, the other by the given pressure of one body on another body-
instrument. These different sound forms come together to form a musical structure that echoes the cycle of life.

Garments, styling, sculptures, performance _New Relation
Sound installation in collaboration with _Jackson Institute _Célia Kameni _Clément Vercelletto
Light Designer _Bertrand Dussart
Performers _Ryme _Agnès _Alima _Alexiane _Tessa _Sarah _Segolène _Clara _Alexa _Eelaia _Audrey _Nini _Anjara _Amande _Déborah
Video, montage_Sunny Keller