Yoann Bourgeois Art Company _ The Unreachable Suspension Point

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Yoann Bourgeois Art Company _ The Unreachable Suspension Point

19:00 - 13.11.2023 - 80-150 zł - more

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Yoann Bourgeois about his work:

A Writing Laboratory
Since I had just reached that age when one can, in a simplified manner and whatever the course of events, anticipate the main developments of a future life and talk about days to come with an air of past, I began developing a programme. The age by itself was not an objective threshold, or a temporal reality – it was simply the awareness of something. However many days remained ahead even relying on the most optimistic predictions – there would be too few.

My plan was to disarm time. Yes, of course, that would be impossible in itself. But there existed different methods to attempt. It would be simple and definitive. A single sentence would be enough: “attempts to approach a point of suspension”.

Something like the hopes for a certain piece, with its specific props (chairs, stairs, floors), its variations and its distinct set of physical forces (gravity, balance, inertia). Always pushing to approach an elusive present. And a conviction that a work of art can attain its true coherence with time.

So, it’s a constantly evolving process, shared over the long term, with a dedicated team.

The Act…
There’s a very specific format, which we believed had been left behind, something claimed only by the so-called “traditional” circus-and abandoned by what we call the “new” circus, would it be seen as outmoded? I decided to turn once again to this approach, with its unique organisation and signature codes.

A number in a circus is the perfect short form. It’s often mentioned that it lasts about eight minute – but, really, that doesn’t mean anything. That number is just a condensation, basically a way of maximally reducing a form that has reached its greatest intensity, just as in cooking when we decoct a substance by boiling it down to its concentrated minimum.

There is, at the end of this process of simplification by extraction, a dream of an absolute: a number that must stand on its own. Without cultural scaffolding, in all different contexts. A number needs to be able to last. Despite the life that passes through bodies, with the inevitable arrival of old age, a number will exist throughout an entire lifetime. A successful number must be able to work everywhere, at any the time.

Nevertheless, a number can never claim a meaning, with a capital “M”. A number doesn’t have that much arrogance. After all, no number is above the rest, not even number 1. A number will never forget the multiplicity of sets. It says nothing more than what it says, without denying the other numbers that come before or after it. A number has humility. Meaning is simply in and through a number, and just by that fact alone, a number manages to attain the universal.

Approach 1. Balls / Yoann / Contrapunctus 2

For this three-ball dance, the art of juggling helps to simplify and clarify the pathway of the second edition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of The Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge). Within this minimal performance, all is continually constructed and deconstructed around the point of suspension – that precise moment that exists between the end of an upward trajectory and the beginning of a descent.

conception, direction, set design: Yoann Bourgeois
performance: Yoann Bourgeois
technical manager: Nicolas Anastassiou
music: “The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus 2” by Johann Sebastian Bach
production: Yoann Bourgeois Art Company