Speaking of reconstitution is usually associated with a crime investigation. The detailed (re-)staging of an event in retrospect serves to decode the initial situation.
The situation that Peut-être que j'avais juste pas assez respiré deals with does not constitute a crime in the traditional sense, but nevertheless raises the question of delinquency. A colleague fainted at the presentation of her art work during a critique session. She fell on her sculpture titled Kritikwerk, which dealt with the method of criticism.
What were the preconditions that the framework of the institutional reality was disrupted at once? How did each one behave and how is the event remembered? After having asked each person present at that time to give a witness report, these statements were compiled to a script.
Three performers recite this script that encircles the recalled situation, in order to recount, parallelize, and contrast the different versions. The statements do not come from the psychology of the characters, but represent positions of the witnesses. The cinematic dispositive gradually reveals the reconstructed spatial situation of the event.
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01/2014
Shown at Haute école d'art et de design Genève
