Last edit : Performance Pas dormir @ Bosch Parade

"Pas dormir-Night nurse" edit

"Pas dormir-Night nurse" edit

the original music of the performance....

Pas dormir Bosch Parade 2012

  

20, 23, 24 June 2012

 Pas dormir 

Performance on the Aa river, 's Hertogenbosch

with a 7 meter fabric doll and 18 barbershop singers

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"Pas Dormir / Night Nurse"

A man's choir is streaming down the Aa river on 3 rafts, singing for a giant white rag doll.

The text expressing her fears of seeing her inner darkness is carried by a very slow and dark lullaby.

The doll's head, eyes closed, is lying on a stainless steel table while the other parts of her body are attached to the raft with ropes and spread around calmly floating in the water.

As the choir, casually pulls back on board the limbs to reconstitute the doll's body on two other tables, as a sort of reversed dissection operation, the doll wakes up.

She now has to face the darkness of the outside world. Under the excessive mens manipulation, the body jumps compulsively on the tables. Dislocated again, the doll's limbs falls back in the water.

A bord de 3 radeaux un choeur d'homme descend le cours de la rivière Aa. Il chante pour une poupée géante de chiffon blanc. Le texte, porté par une très lente et sombre berceuse, exprime ses craintes face à son sombre intérieur.

La tète de la poupée repose les yeux fermés sur une table en acier chromé. Les autres parties de son corps sont dispersés attachés aux radeaux par des cordes, flottant tranquillement sur l'eau.

Le choeur remonte à bord les membres et reconstitue avec attention le corps de la poupée sur deux autres tables. Sorte d'opération de dissection à l'envers.

Là elle se réveille et doit maintenant se confronter à l'obscurité du monde extérieur.

Sous la manipulation excessive des hommes le corps se met à sauter compulsivement.

La poupée se disloque à nouveau et les membres retombent dans l'eau.

Een mannenkoor dat zich op drie vlotten bevindt zakt zingend de rivier de Aa af.
Het zingt een gigantische witte lappen pop toe.
De tekst, gedragen door een zeer traag en donker slaapliedje, drukt de angst uit waarmee ze haar donkere binnenste aanschouwt. 

Het hoofd van de pop rust met de ogen dicht op een verchroomde tafel. 

De andere lichaamsdelen liggen verspreid en rustig drijvend in het water, door touwen verbonden met de vlotten. 

Het koor trekt de ledematen aan boord en herbouwt aandachtig het lichaam van de pop op de twee andere tafels. Een soort omgekeerde ontleding.
Ineens wordt ze wakker en wordt nu geconfronteerd met haar zwarte kijk op de buitenwereld. 

Door de overmatige manipulatie van de mannen begint haar lichaam dwangmatig te stuiteren. De pop valt weer uit elkaar en de ledematen vallen opnieuw in het water.

Bosch Parade 2012

semaphoric 27/11/2011

http://www.stichting-stec.nl/Linked1.html

semaphoric 26/11/2011

 Exhibition LINKED  performance given the 26/11/2011 @ Bink vijf hoog, Den Haag

photos : José Krijnen

Semaphore remix, multimedia installation

Exhibition LINKED@Bink vijf hoog, Den Haag

pas dormir performance @ melkfabriek 's Hertogenbosch : the video

pas dormir performance@melkfabriek 's hertogenbosch from Julia Boix-Vives on Vimeo.

works from Julia Boix-Vives @ KunstStof


"pas dormir" installation after the performance
2 videos loops on computers + table + doll + light + net


"manipulation with tissue scraps"
video, loop on monitor

"couture scratch"video, loop on monitor

Re–Routed
a visual-concert by
Boix Y Boix

A Global Performance with Electronic music, Guitar + Live video and object manipulations

Boix Y Boix is a performance duo formed in 2009 by composer Philippe Boix-Vives and visual artist Julia Boix-Vives. In fusion, brother and sister transmit audiovisual signals revealing an inspired and abstract world.

Re - Routed: transforming rawness in a poetic act

Boix Y Boix often works with raw material extracted from each artist’s respective past including sound samples, video samples, performance art, things already used, almost dead and recycles them back to life in new compositions. The duo’s latest work, Re-Routed, is a visual concert evoking an idea of direction, movement and solitude, in which music and visual art are in permanent interaction. Produced for a global audience, the artists send signals by semaphore. Interactive communication unfolds with the audience, triggered by multiple layers and metaphorical associations. Crafting an unreal and imaginary space, this magical tableau vivant lets you experience voyeurism, gives you directions that lead nowhere, creates anxiety at seeing yourself or simply creates the illusion that one can bend metal. Both artists manipulate their instruments/tools, such as: computers, sound samples, guitar, video cameras, huge puppets, targets, mirrors, special effects. These elements are taken out of their original context and re-routed. Compulsively re-questioning their material, cracking its origin, the artists join their universes together in a concept of recycling and redirection. In a looping of gestures, broken beats, image repetitions, unique sound textures, the choreographed object morphs into a full-blown dream.

Artist presentation:

Composer/musician Philippe Boix-Vives has been creating music for a number of performing arts forms for the past 20 years, including performance art, modern dance, theater and sound installations as well as several film scores. Aesthetically his music covers a wide range of sources and influences resulting in a dense music architecture. His guitar playing, freely improvised, is in strong contrast to his digitally organized and complex live electronic compositions. On this particular occasion, music elements from the album project "Re-Routing" (2001/2006) have been re-routed again, this time adapted for a concert context and the collaboration with Julia Boix-Vives.
The strong theatrical aspect of the artist’s music fusions naturally with his sister's universe
into a lyrical and poetical visual concert.

Julia Boix-Vives portrays herself in her videos and performances. She uses her body, movements and expressions as live raw material. Sometimes absorbed in a physical relationship with an object, she builds an almost sexual manipulation intuitively choreographed. She questions the origin of the movement by duplicating bodies and repeating gestures. In this project she addresses the issue of diving into the abyss. By revisiting and recycling her video material, reworking them live, she rebuilds her performances accompanied by her alter-ego dolls.

Creative process:

The concept and performance was developed in creative workshops in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in January and March 2010.

pas dormir extract project Re-routed by Boix y Boix

pas dormir / night nurse (work in progress) from Julia Boix-Vives on Vimeo.

projet Re-routed by Boix Y Boix

Pas dormir
first impression in vimeo :
http://www.vimeo.com/8882812