X-Event 2 Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art 2007 From 17th September 2007 to 6th January 2008
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		During four months, five dancers have executed the seven X-Event 2 protocols (Les courses, Les corps morts, Le goût, La vague, Les Kama Sutra, Les chutes, Salives) during 4 hours a day, 5 days on the 6 weekly open days of the Biennial. Performers : Sophie Demeyer, Déborah Lary, Cécile Laloy, Guillaume Milhac, Steve Paulet. Denis Robert, Marion Carriau (substitutes) Sound: Nicolas Martz from the Baryton’s voice of Victor Torres Clothing creation: VIER5 For the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art all seven protocols making up X-Event 2 – including three especially created for this exhibition – have been presented in random order by the choreographers and five performers throughout the four months of the Biennial. This period, the equivalent of the time needed to create and rehearse a dance performance, thus became something visible, to be experienced over time.  The presence or absence of the dancers and choreographers in the exhibition space corresponded to the rhythm and process of a work involving extreme expense of energy and chance occurrences. The performance and resting time required by this experiment was overlaid on, without being determined by, the timetable of the venue. The process of the work incorporated the impatience, frustration, fascination, rejection and sense of identification of an audience called on to produce a commentary on the event within the event. Through the slowing down, acceleration, motionlessness or absence of the dancers' bodies, the seven performances developed in the context of the Biennial stress the movement and perceptual path of the viewer within an exhibition. The X-Event 2 protocols were triggered and develop in an area of some 100 square metres, open on all sides and situated within an itinerary laid down for the visitor by the Biennial curators. This area was neither the beginning nor the conclusion of an exhibition path. The typology of the space was that of a lobby, transit hall or crossroads, in a return to the X layout of X-Event 1. Pierre Bal Blanc, Director of CAC Brétigny Translation Extract of the catalogue Biennale d’art contemporain Lyon 2007 X-Event 2.5/2.6/2.7 Creation and presentation of the seven protocols Production: Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2007, Micadanses Paris, with the backing of the Brétigny Centre for Contemporary Art, the Parc Saint Léger Centre for Contemporary Art, the Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, the Vassivière Centre for Contemporary Art, the Ile de France-Ministry of Culture and Communications Regional Cultural Affairs Office, the Essonne Département Council, the Adami, the ONDA, the CCN-Ballet Biarritz-Thierry Malandain-accueil studio 2007 and Culturesfrance for touring abroad. Photos credit: Blaise Adilon / Courtesy: Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art 2007