For the Frac-il-de-France, Colin Self presents Hippodrome du Précariat, an ambulatory processional performance around the Frac in Romainville.
On a 20-minute loop, Colin, along with a group of instrumentalists and acrobats perform a circular choreography through and in front of the building, revolving around two deconstructed, interloping fugues.
They’re based on Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ 1967 hit The Tears of a Clown and Mylène Farmer’s 1991 hit Désenchantée; two uplifting songs about despondence popularized during times of mass protest.
The English-French text performed will be a libretto co-authored and translated by French poet and musician Chouf. At times instrumental, at times acapella, Colin imagines the performance to be initially comical, unfolding into something…
4pm: 1st loop of Hippodrome du Précariat
5pm: guided tour with Alicia Reymond
6pm: 2nd loop of Hippodrome du Précariat
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Colin Self (b. 1987 Oregon, USA) is an artist, composer and puppeteer based in Berlin Germany. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased.
Many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities. Also, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Self has been running XOIR since 2013, an alternative modality of group singing, and co-founded a performance school in 2023 with their collaborator Monica Mirabile.
Their most recent commissions include The World to Come, composed for Berlin’s State Orchestra in 2020, Tip the Ivy, a semi-staged opera premiering in Graz in February 2022, and Performance Space NY in May 2022. Last year they were a resident artist at Callie’s Berlin and will be an artistic fellow at La Becque in Autumn 2024. Their third LP, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis will be out on RVNG Intl. in February 2025.
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Guided visit of the exhibition :
Alicia Reymond, co-curator of the exhibition Vieilles coques & jeunes récifs, presents a guided tour at 5pm.
And for families!
Parkour
2:30pm – 4:30pm, from 6 years
Parents and children create sculptural obstacles and then try out their athletic skills on each other!
Free workshop, inscription on Reservio (or at 01 76 21 13 33)