LISA & Nicolas Floc’h

The sculptural/architectural module Structure Multifonctions by the French artist Nicolas Floc’h forms the starting point for the piece in which LISA creates a performative matrix made for/with/by 15 performers and 15 spectators. Using topics of “Frame”, “Meeting” and “Exchange” as dominant qualities of LISA as collective, Nicole Beutler, Hester van Hasselt, Ivana Müller, Paz Rojo and David Weber-Krebs conceptualize a “performative event” that is based on processes of conversation, negotiation and construction of a meta narrative in the “here and now” context.

15 tables and 30 chairs, made of panels that make part of Floc’h’s building set, are the “stage” where individual meetings between a spectator and a performer happen: intimacy, rules, chemistry, impossibility, a talk, a confession, a silence, a date, a continuing story… until the sound on the speaker marks the change. Each individual meeting influences the next meeting and pieces of stories and information are carried by the performers around the “frame” to create “one big story”.

For the occasion of each series of performances of Structure Multifonction LISA invites a number of (professional and non-professional) guest performers from the local area.

Installation: Nicolas Floc’h
Concept: LISA (Nicole Beutler, Ivana
Müller, Paz Rojo, David Weber-Krebs and Hester van Hasselt)

Performances

September 2004:
LISA and guests:
Andreas Bachmeier, Andrea Bozic, Diego Gil, Laurens van der Heijden, Melissa Jaramillo, Cisneros, Keren Levi, Corrina Manara, Alex Parkinson, Tom Parkinson, Vanessa Patterson

October 2005:
LISA and guests:
Bettina Wind, Ive Stevenheydens, Carlos Pez, Hans Bryssinck, Natalie Hoolants, Sandy Williams, Barbara van Lindt, Jan Geers, Pieter Ampe, Karolien Verlinden, Leen Persoons, Aissa Nemiri

Structure Multifonctinos LISA was commissioned and co-produced by Gallery W139 and Theater Gasthuis and Klapstuk#12.