Introduction Thank you for being here tonight. The pretext for this evening is to present, for the first time, the paintings of Stephen Lengrand. We are (Ingrid and me) friends with this family for a long time but it was only during our holiday together in Spain I saw Stephen perform the sketch. More recently (this summer), we had a first contact with his painting. Our enthusiasm has quickly blown the idea of putting feet on this joint project. I thank Stephen for giving me confidence and I give the floor to these questions exchanged by mail.
painting of Stephen Lengrand: short virtual interview
Etienne Lengrand
Born December 26, 1963
> What motivates the choice of a subject?
is a natural topic for the artist as a result of continuous observation. A gesture, an attitude, a motion creates emotion, touching or upsetting the artist. Represent it, the drawing is an attempt to apprehend, to better understand it.
> Your characters display a certain "vulnerability". Are you agree with this statement?
is, I think, one possible interpretation among others. My characters are airtight, impassive but not especially vulnerable. The expression on their faces reflected that allows you to project themselves and each viewer will make its own symbolism, its own fantasies, or, conversely, cause fear of the unknown world without landmarks ....
> What are your spiritual fathers (in the history of art or of ideas)?
To name a few:
Goya, Bacon, Hockney, Lucian Freud, Marlene Dumas.
> How is this temporal dimension (waiting, idleness, etc. ...) in your paintings?
I think my characters are embodied castration. In their expectations, their inaction, they refer the viewer to vacuum, to the unsaid, hence the discomfort that may leak out, leaving him an open field. This is a time suspended that leaves no intentionality, each of us there goes his own imagination.
> What is the role of nudity in your painting?
My characters are rarely completely naked. The few clothes they wear to depict, reveal a small part of their personality, giving the viewer the desire to learn more and make a free interpretation. This near nudity is a way to unleash everyone.
> What would be your definition of art? And its role?
Art, I think is a reflection of a company or a specific time. It not only man to find landmarks in the world in which he lives but also enrich it personally inspiring in him feelings, emotions ...
body found: tracklisting
General Magic: I love you (label Mego): I chose this song to start because except in extreme cases of rape, birth of a body goes through a feeling. Here it is expressed by General Magic in a robotic tone and repetitive. This duo is composed of Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper. A three (with Peter Rehberg, see below), they founded the influential Mego label (in the 90s, Vienna). They also co-authored the first piece of the label "Fridge Trax", made entirely with sounds from the fridge (a future classic for our series "Objects"). General Magic has specialized in the exploration software.
SPUNK: Kamelmusikk (label Rune Grammofon): This all-female group chose a name to its ambitions: spunk means the guts, the courage but also the shit. This name is a way to emancipate the whole semantic woman phallic dominance. Among its members, this group has Ratkje Maja, the prolific explorer sound (Spunk, Fe-mail, and many other collaborations). This disc is released by the Norwegian label Rune Grammofon has the particularity to publish only artists from Norway. The founder of this label, on the border between jazz and noisy electronics sharp, Rune Kristoffersen is none other than the Group of 80's Fra Lippo Lippi.
Efterklang: Fetus (Leaf Label): Following the logical path that I decided to follow after the feeling and the exchange of fluids, creating a fetus. This ensemble was formed in 2001 Danish. In 2003, they were joined by filmmaker and graphic work is very important. Their debut album Tripper (which is extracted Fetus) brings together 32 musicians (there are violins, brass and a sound collage of videos).
Colleen babies (Leaf Label): The fetus, not yet fully a person is born. The body then turns to her parents. This first contact is through the skin and rupture. Colleen is the artist name Cécile Schott (just a Parisian thirties) who has published a few years a delicate music that mixes traditional instruments and found sounds and looped. Some here were present at the concert she gave at the Planetarium of Brussels (concert grounds at the first Listening Room Area).
Peter Rehberg: Skin (label Mosz): Better known by the name of Pita (his name for publication abrasive music to which he has accustomed his fans), Peter Rehberg is one of the founders of the label Mego. People often go to the Mego terrorists sound but because they are convinced that the noise has the potential creator and deliverer. Here, Peter Rehberg published under his name, music composed for a ballet: Fremdkoerper (foreign body). The extract is called Skin.
Polwechsel: Mirror (label HatHut): I wanted to start with this piece because, in terms of physicality, everything starts with the mirror. But I prefer to keep this clip as a little nod to Lacan associates the mirror and the discovery by the young child's body and of otherness. Even for the adults we are, we need a mirror for understanding our bodies, even to treat him. The care and maintenance will check in the mirror. Seduction, too.
Polwechsel Austrian is a collective whose members change. The base group consists of Werner Dafeldecker (double bass) and Michael Moser (Cello & computer). They are joined here by Martin Brandlmaier (the best drummer in the world to me, cf. Working with Radian, Kapital Band 1 etc..) Burkhard Beins (Drums, percussion) and John Butcher (saxophone).
Their music belongs to the very dynamic field of "electro-acoustic improvisation". Their working method is to take advantage of the specificity of each musician and constantly redefine the boundaries between composition and improvisation.
Hanne Hukkelberg: Little Girl (Leaf Label): Of course, the body turns into a little girl. Hanne Hukkelberg is also from Norway. She has been singing since she was three years (as our little Elina to whom I dedicate this song) and found music hidden in the most unlikely objects (knife, pan etc..). Moreover, its Disk full of little sounds that complement the rich palette of instruments deployed on his album.
Babila: Wisdom tooth (extraction) (label Stilll): Babil: literally "abundance of idle talk," the Belgian group, based in Brussels, produces abstract compositions based on sounds of guitars, basses, keyboards, flutes and small objects. The title makes me think of several things: first of all to our little girl growing up and feels that growth (puberty) into his mouth. Then, the dentist is an event that always makes us take a radical consciousness of our corporeality (through pain, anesthesia and alarm). Finally, the characters of Stephen Lengrand have an air of waiting their turn (for some unknown experiments).
Depeche Mode: Somebody (remix) (Mute label): Our body grows and, in turn, the little girl wants a shoulder on which to build. Love comes and the feeling is starting to look again. The fluids will resume the service: the first saliva, sweat and semen afterwards. Depeche Mode is, since 1980, a true pop phenomenon: they fill stadiums and leave records for success ever confirmed. Since the beginning, they are on the label (independent up until recently) Mute. A beautiful story, really.
Mi & L'Au: Nude (label Young Gods): Enigmatic, Music In The Mid & East to more than one way. Recorded in a small cottage in Finland, these pieces were reworked in Brooklyn by the Young Gods label head Michael Gira (former leader of Swans).
Nude, the song is in your ears tonight not because of the title (it would have been too easy) but to do justice to the words that make the link between body and paint, the little girl becomes muse
"I welcome you nude
... Sit down, take a pen, a pencil, SOME
Clay
My pastels, gold book, harry or simply lay
Down
and play For a while ... "
Matmos: Lipostudio ... and so on (label Matador): Extract from the album A Chance to Cut Is A chance to cure (a favorite album for me, already used previously for the listening room), this piece uses sounds liposucion surgery (registered in California using scalpels Bard Parker, Draeger's anesthesia, fans and medical equipment liposucion Gramm). Matmos, as always, raises the question of using musical sounds recorded on the field (field recordings). I thought it appropriate to insert a song that deals with cosmetic surgery in this sequence on the body revealed. It is a contemporary relation to the body: a rejection of its own envelope and the frantic quest for another. Cass Mc Combs
: I Went To The Hospital (4AD): For each body, death is an unsurpassable horizon. The time for prosthetics and other devices gives way to decay. "I May be gone soon" We sing Cass Mc Combs, the young Californian of 30 years who has three albums to his credit (two on the 4AD label and a new on Domino Records). He was heavily influenced by Sept. 11 because at that time, he resided in New York. Next
Listening Room # 12
The next room listening will take place during the Christmas holidays. It happens to us, with a buffet (as before). Its name and its theme: Le Concert des Nations: 50 Years of the Treaty of Rome in Music (Series Imaginary Territories).
For almost 20 years, I pop music back from my travels. This evening will be an opportunity to share with you these discs can not be found, a buffet and a cocktail Erasmus (provisional name: Absolut Schengen).
House listens to come
- # 10 DJ Culture: 5x10 (five DJs ten songs they prefer to dance). In Zonneklop, rue de la paix. A nod to the dictatorship of the dancefloor.
- H2O # 13: the sound qualities of the Blue Gold (Series 4 elements). With a mineral water bar (as in Japan).
- # 14 From fingering: accordion and harp in the service of pop music (instrument set).
- # 15 Music and Politics: from my village in the world (and back) (series Para / / ELE). With policies to prepare for regional elections next year.
- # 16 Central Station: Trains, sounds and imaginary voyages (Series Items)
- # 17 New Weird America: United States: a continent Sound imaginary (imaginary territories series)
- # 18 To continue in French, type 1: the phone and its diversion into music (Series Items)
If you want to collaborate on these projects or suggest another topic, show you ...
Extensions (to be together or separated)
Evening with Jacques Rancière at Bozar November 21, 2007: the fourth and final lecture of the cycle in the folds of this organized by our friend Ivana Momcilivic. An opportunity to hear the great philosopher of the "sharing of the sensible" (and despite some disappointments, a reference must for us). Delays versus
trio Vivat conventionné dance and theater scene in Armentieres (15 minutes from Lille) Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 21h: one of the ten best shows of my life (with Laurence Weerts seen the last dance festival at the Balsa) where bodies are to shoot at the same time they are projected. The New Pornographers at
Botanic Saturday, November 24, 2007: An excellent pop-rock band from Canada. Nothing porn but I could not resist the ease.
Other extensions will complete this list. The TECC
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