Installation / performance _ April 15th 2004.
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain - 261, Bd raspail - 75014 Paris
(intervention length : 1h 50mn et 55s.)
Original series of Blanche Neige project launched by Catherine Bay.

Blanche Neige _ at the Cartier Foundation.
The Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin are co-producing a performance installation by Catherine Bay, presented at the Cartier Foundation.


Communiqué
Blanche Neige invades the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.



Blanche Neige project evolves through series of interventions. In its original form, it was a show on scene created in April 2003 at Studio 14 Paradis that constitutes the project matrix, which is punctually loaded with White Snow (Blanche Neige) apparitions. Under various forms such as performances, conferences, shows and manifestations, those White Snow take advantage on mass culture and multiply themselves as it. White Snow, a character who comes from somewhere far away, spreads as a virus, invade the place, take it for herself and leaves it as quickly. Making White Snow a nomad, she becomes the telltale of this place and people who use it. In this project, Catherine Bay considers first of all our relation to the image. White Snow as an hostage of her own effigy commercialized by Walt Disney, embodies by her presence, an alienating process and her original situation setting calls our memories.

From a dozen of years, Catherine Bay develops a choreography project, staging project and manages events in various locations types. Out of that Blanche Neige project, she created numerous artistic performances: Nains Mode d'Emploi ("Dwarfs, Using Notice", presented also at the Bellone-Brigittines festival in 2002 and at Nouvelles Scènes de Dijon in 2000), which is a performance for six bodybuilders and seven gum chewers created for Food-lab in the Soirée Nomades, and also Elucubrations III, a solo performance for women and dumbbells, that she played at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre (next by Paris) in 1997.

With Gaëlle Bona, Gaëlle Jeandon, Nathalie Essinard… casting proceeding.

Costumes: Roël Strassart.
Lights: Corinne Durand
Sound: Ludovic Germain - LAPS design sonore, with the participation of Julien Gautier.
Videos: Thomas Courcelle - LAPS video.
Production: Association du 41.


The Blanche Neige project is supported by Brownstone Foundation, the Studio 14 Paradis, the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin festival, the Espace Window and creativTV.net.

Contact and booking (sine qua non) at Cartier Foundation: 00 33 (0)1 42 18 56 72
Press information at Cartier Foundation: Linda Chenit at 00 33 (0)1 42 18 56 77 / 65.
Other information at Association 41: 00 33 (0)1 42 00 02 42