Annegret
Suaudeau
Movement Voice Performance
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Which reactions can take place at a given location?
The Basis:
Surroundings with architectural elements of indeterminate function.
The camera.
Me, as actor.
Other actors, if applicable.
The Rules:
Try, through movement and speech, to claim the space.
The action is spontaneous.
Events remain open to interpretation.
Open House
The concrete blocks under a motorway bridge recall fragments of a house. A figure undergoes emotional states in full view of the video camera, as in a reality show. She attempts to measure the space, inhabits it and becomes part of the site.
Stacking Investigations
Stacked slabs have created open surfaces and gaps. I wanted to plumb these spaces, asserting my presence here. A figure with varying functions and identities investigates, tests, consults and presents, using language to distance herself from this immovable complex.
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Voice Pieces Sound Stories
My speech improvisation can veer into pure sound and rhythm, or introduce a range of spoken personalities and develop into stories. It often begins with a concrete observation before following its own path.
Interference
Variously voiced creatures interrupt each other as they move in and out of the foreground.
Oblique Light
The angle of the light in a courtyard inspires a piece that grows through repetition and misspeaking.
Multitrack Murder Investigation
Two voices interrupt and contradict each other, talking over each other. Is this about a murder or their relationship?
COLLABORATIONS
With Bram Faber, Painter
A common factor in our work is the way we play with flexible, adjustable possibilities and try to minimise the number of structural elements. This playfulness expresses itself in a desire to avoid systems and an embrace of the provisional.
About me
In my films and spoken pieces I often embody and speak a range of figures and voices. The question of identity – the desire to assert it or liberate oneself from it – is a major preoccupation. Approaching the world through different roles has a playful improvisational element. But the roles also explore the tension between rules, power and personal freedom. In the pieces, language is both a means of manipulation and a form of expression. Movements adapt to and attempt to expand spatial limitations. The scenes contain prefabricated elements whose function is often subverted. While doing so, I search for the moments in which actions follow their own, surprising course.
Contact
Annegret Suaudeau
info@annegretsuaudeau.com