Ryoko Sekiguchi & Samon Takahashi
"C’est un livre sur les voix, des voix enregistrées qui continuent d’émettre au présent, sur l’expérience de la perte et sur certaines ondes qui nous touchent."
D'après "La voix sombre" de Ryoko Sekiguchi, éditions P.O.L
Résidence préparatoire à la performance donnée lors de l'inauguration pour la réouverture du CAM (Centro de Arte Moderna) de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 22 Septembre 2024, Lisbonne.
Production Fondation Gulbenkian et Institut Français de Lisbonne.
Stu∏dio Residency: La résidence ∏-Node s'est principalement concentrée sur les répétitions de la performance, et sur l'enregistrement des voix de Ryoko Sekiguchi (voix française et japonaise de son propre texte) et de Jeanne Seves (voix portugaise).
Ryoko Sekiguchi and Samon Takahashi, two accomplished artists with a shared vision and a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries, have embarked on their first collaborative journey in a live interpretation of Sekiguchi’s text ‘La Voix sombre’.
Orality, or rather its recorded trace, is not a reminiscence but an enduring present. Writing about fixed voices is paradoxical: inked words are silent, yet they resonate through our very ability to make them concrete, to hear them within us.
From her own book, ‘La Voix sombre’ [The dark Voice], Ryoko Sekiguchi opens up an acoustic space where, for a certain time, the voice could be deployed outside this inner confinement and made visible through sound, its natural and definitive material.
The author’s voice then becomes the vector for the voices she invokes and evokes, voices from which the very meaning of ‘evocatio’ derives. The written word frees itself from the eye and this transformation inspires the duo formed for the occasion, as if the essence of each aggregate of words were, above all, nothing more than an invitation to its interpretation.
Commissioned by CAM for the Opening Party of its new building, this lecture performance seamlessly blends the realms of a multi-languages landscape of sensations, weaving a tapestry of creative expression. Both artists will be on stage, exploring the intricate interplay between words and sounds.
https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/en/agenda/echoing-by-ryoko-sekiguchi-and-samon-takahashi/