Rustling Voices : A Sonic Inquiry is a new work by Swiss sound artist and researcher Antoine Chessex. The work explores a specific audiovisual format that is materialised here in an installative setting. Focusing on the affective, relational and social dimensions of sound and listening, as well as their possible interaction with visual documents and texts, the installation seeks to reveal the narrative qualities of rustling voices and their potentiality for unfolding performative articulations. Both human and more-than-human voices form a Sonic Fiction that emerges in spaces in-between, like a fragmented echo of a non-linear time.

 

Antoine Chessex presents Rustling Voices : A Sonic Inquiry 
Tuesday, June 27, 6:00-8:00 pm, free admission

Since 2019, La Becque has been holding public events, open to all, dedicated to filmmaker, activist, and writer Derek Jarman. Entitled Modern Nature and conceived at the initiative of Elise Lammer, this program borrows its name from one of the English artist’s diaries, which largely focuses on his garden in Dungeness on the coast of Kent, England. Developed towards the end of his life, this lush, flowery haven, despite its inhospitable environment, would become his last total work, and later a place of pilgrimage for increasingly diverse artistic communities.

 

For its Modern Nature project, La Becque has drawn inspiration from the work of Jarman, developing a botanical tribute to Dungeness in the heart of its own gardens on the shores of Lake Geneva. Each year, La Becque invites both internationally renowned, established artists and up-and-coming Swiss creators to come and tackle this “place within a place” and Jarman’s artistic legacy, turning this natural setting into a driving force for artistic exploration and experimentation.

 

After three iterations of Modern Nature dedicated to the themes of “Camp”, “Queer Nature”, and the AIDS crisis, La Becque is hosting a fourth, which this time will focus on the garden as sanctuary, through a panorama of varied and original artistic practices, including performances, round tables, concerts, and installations.

 

Imagining his garden at Dungeness as a place of escape, created and maintained in the face of his own impending mortality, a canvas of creation in the midst of all the destruction, Jarman sought to preserve notions of immortality where all seems destined to disappear – a garden sanctuary, both memory and memorial, rooted in the irrepressible life of the earth, e.g., shoots, buds, and flowers. Thus, for this new iteration of Modern Nature, curated by Vanessa Cimorelli, La Becque invites us to consider the garden as a place of anchorage, of presences – past as well as future – which also feed off an abundant energy source that enables them to resist and survive.

 

Friday July 7

5:00 pm Doors open – free access to the garden
5:30 pm Words of welcome by Luc Meier and Vanessa Cimorelli

6:00 pm Cy Lecerf Maulpoix – Radicalement gay, autour des écologies déviantes (conference, 90’)

8:30 pm Tara Ulmann – Sur les traces de Zuassa (performance, 30’)

9:30 pm audrey liebot – on se connaît de la nuit (performance, 50’)

 

Saturday July 8

2:00 pm Doors open – free access to the garden

2:30 pm Mathias Howald – Le jardin des souvenirs (writing workshop on registration, 120’)

5:00 pm Julia Hanadi Al-Abed – Poudre d’os et sang séché (live, 45’)

6:00 pm Mathias Howald – Le jardin des souvenirs (lecture, 30’)

7:00 pm Marc Eicher – A Tale of Echoes: Waiting in Between (performance, 15’)

8:00 pm Domingo Collective – Sometimes I Am Taken For Granite (performance, 30’)

9:00 pm Sophie Conus – Flowers Blossoming Through The Breaches Of Concrete (live, 60’)

 

Ongoing

Élie Autin – Reflect (sculpture)

Marc Eicher – In Between (sculpture)
Tarek Lakhrissi – As Part of Survival… ; MY IMMORTAL (I) ; MY IMMORTAL (II) (installation)

 

The event is free and open to all. No parking on site, please use public transport or the Parking des Remparts in La Tour-de-Peilz.

 

Image: Prem Sahib, Archway, La Becque, Modern Nature 2019, photo Julien Gremaud

 

La Becque is pleased to invite you to the summer session of the traditional Open Studios on Thursday, July 20 from 6 to 10pm. During this evening, the residents will exceptionally open the doors of their studios and apartments for presentations of their current projects.

 

Come discover the work of Virginia Ariu, Ellen Arkbro & Marcus Pal, Esra Elfeky, Florian Hecker, Nicole L’Huillier, Hanne Lippard, Zinzi Minott and Davi Pontes, and enjoy installations and performances created especially for this event.

 

A unique opportunity to meet these artists and share a moment around a drink and some food.

 

Complete program announcement to follow.

 

The event is free and open to all. No parking on site, please use public transport or the Parking des Remparts in La Tour-de-Peilz.