Isabelle Vigier: film, Lily Kiara: dance, Anne La Berge and Felicity Provan: live music, Ellen Knops: lights

Live performance with Isabelle Vigier: images, Andy Moor: guitars, Yannis Kyriakides: electronics, Anne-James Chaton: text.

“Many lullabies, sweet as they commonly seem, often reflect dark and sinister meaning. Vigier’s selection from various traditional poems develops throughout the work alongside increasingly more obscure imagery. She delves into the darkness of the night, paying homage to the legends, terrors and the eventual peace that often settles across the night’s span. These images are accompanied by haunting subtleties in the soundtrack, such as the glass bead mobile shimmering beneath the unrelenting violin arpeggios in Kate Moore’s Broken Rosary.”  – Music Trust Australia, review by Tamara Kholer 02-2020

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 A work based on the deconstruction of the lyrics in lullabies of various heritages. Re-contextualizing words and images, I composed an abstract berceuse, around the mysteries, the fears and the peace that come with the act of falling asleep. This project is companion to the program called ‘Close your eyes and I’ll close mine’ that toured around Australia in 2012, with Anna McMichael, violin, Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano, Isabelle Vigier, video. It is published on Unsounds, 2014.

The wear-on installation The Other Wind Cape is a garment features a 3 dimensional body shape on its back, that inflates, moves and dances in the wind. The silhouette becomes a double body, two bodies back to back, as imaginary companions, or shadows maybe. Light weight waterproof nylon, limited edition.

The Other Wind Cape has integrated the Deste Fashion Collection in 2012, as part of a selection of 7 art and fashion projects made in 2011. The capsule 2012 was curated by Athina Rachel Tsangari for the Deste foundation.

view video: on a windy day

 additional credits

Exposure

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Diptych window projection, Ateliers Claus, Brussels 2011. Video 15′ looped, based on original material filmed for video projections in choreographer Gabrielle Uetz’s dance piece ‘KIZ’, and featuring dancer Jaime Llopis. www.lesateliersclaus.com

Play QFO (fixed media version)

Interactive composition for internet with music by Yannis Kyriakides, for Sound and Music / London 2008.
QFO (Queer Foreign Objects) is a set of 50 slides originally created as an interactive Flash based web app, which navigates through Swiss scholar Thomas Platter’s description of his 1599 visit to Sir Walter Cope’s ‘Wunderkammer’. It consists of illustrations and design by Isabelle Vigier and a soundscape by Yannis Kyriakides of between 1 and 15 seconds corresponding to each slide. It was commissioned and created for the then new UK ‘Sound and Music’ website in 2008. This is a fixed media version of the piece.

Video -15′ A sequence of black and white panoramic photographs w/ music for prepared piano and electronics by Yannis Kyriakides.