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| Experimental video | dv | color | 2'32'' | France | 2006 |
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© Barbara Noiret
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This video is the result of a performance carried out by patients and caregivers during lunch at the restaurant of the Institut Marcel Rivière in Verrière psychiatric hospital. It was made in collaboration with Régis Bouchet-Merelli and Dominique Larcher from the contemporary dance company K-Denza. The performance lasted 25 minutes but only 2'32'' have been kept to create this video, based on the body movements in connection with the architecture. The rhythm in this video is created by the surrounding noise of the meal (plates, cutlery, discussions...). This performance was conceived in relation with the restaurant's historical and architectural context: the hall in which the performance is set was reserved to the caregivers in the 1960's. This room is separated by large bay windows from another larger room where the patients have dinner. At the time, these bay windows allowed for the observation and diagnosis of the patients during lunch. This practice is no longer in use today, but the caregivers continue to dine in one room while the patients dine in the other. The aim of the performance was for everyone to dine together in the same space, and for the space, both open and closed because of the windows, to become a performance space, where objects lose their functionality: The tables are assembled and disassambled to form a dance stage, and the chairs no longer serve as seats. An attempt to disrupt the meal space and everyone's habits by creating a mental architecture.
Barbara Noiret was born in 1976. She currently lives and works in Paris. The Frédéric Giroux Gallery, where in 2005 she produced a personal exhibition, has been promoting her work since 2004. Thanks to the gallery, she took part in several collective exhibitions and contemporary art fairs - Artissima, Turin, and FIAC 2004, 2005 and 2006, in Paris.
She has carried out exhibition and residency projects in two contemporary art centres, and the departmental estate of Chamarande invited her to produce a work of photography and video based on her final project on the domain's castle. Le Fonds National d’art contemporain acquired two photographic works produced on this estate in 2006. Some of her work was shown during the days of patrimony in September 2005, and was further displayed in the exhibition "L'esprit des lieux" from November 2006 to February 2007. At the end of her three month residence in 2000, the estate of Kerguéhennec, Bignan allowed her to present a personal project, "l'espace de l'image", on the abandonned floors of the castle.
Barbara has exhibited her work at the Music and Art School in Brême, Germany. The school invited her to participate in the presentation of the student's works. She produced an installation video especially for the occasion.
As for other projects, the Marcel Rivière Institute, a psychiatric hospital in Verrière, put a disused pavilion at her disposal two years ago and she continues to make use of it. She works in different spaces of the hospital in relation to the patients and the caregivers. In 2005, in the framework of this project, Barbara received individual creation aid and an installation allowance (material aid) from DRAC Ile-de-France. In 2001 she completed a short residency at La Casa de Vélasquez in Madrid, working on the directorial project "Sin Escenario1 Identité et Image" by David Ferré as a photographer screenwriter.
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