A collaboration with Nicolas Puyjalon
Part 1 : Inflation of the mattresses (mouth, compressor, foot pump), stacking up of the mattresses.
Part 2 : Setting up of the "prepared mattresses".
Part 3 : Deflation of the mattresses by jumping and laying on top of the pile, till total deflation.
While the accomplices have the impression of drifting on the raft of the Medusa, the tension rises in the public which howls of compassion, witnesses of a catastrophe in the making, until the moment of grace where they finally manage to tame the instrument by holding on to each other, resting all the way through the slow descent while a tortuous cacophonous sound comes out of the valves. Once the deflation is getting closer to the ground, Zabo connects a megaphone to amplify the last breath of the instrument while Nicolas rolls the mattresses into a solid rock. The piece ends as they let themselves fall backwards still holding on to the rock and to one another. Nothing else mattress...
Collaboration Tales, "Post-Coital Sadness".
Curator: EXstat². Delphine Marinier and Lan Hungh.
Performance Month, Berlin 16/05/2015
©yanita mircheva
NOW WHAT? WASTEBAND
Ida SCHMID, Brooklyn, NY
Avec Solène Garnier (trompet). 2016
© Sylvie Muller