Une idylle quand même

The composer Pierre Jodlowski and the poet Laure Gauthier are developing in residence at Césaré a device halfway between installation (videos, voiceovers, music) and performance (voice and live electronics).

From unpublished poems by Laure Gauthier, the two artists have been weaving the thread of memory since today, allowing real or imagined places and landscapes to emerge. We traverse poems of hedgerow and poems of mourning: mourning, an experience we must all go through, one day or another... the hedgerow, a landscape that exists in different regions and cultures, a kind of non-place, a zone of porous boundaries.

Using filmic excerpts from the hedgerow of Cotentin (fields, hedges, coastline, ponds, etc.), a framing narrative in voiceover, and a soundtrack (electroacoustic and concrete), the installation allows us to experience both concrete and abstract, intimate and open places that speak to us from a singular story, that of the author who lost her mother, and resonates with our consumer society of the 1980s when we built huts while listening to Jimmy Sommerville, where golden apples replaced cider apples.

With a wide electroacoustic instrumentation, Pierre Jodlowski constructs the soundtrack of a dreamlike world with multiple temporalities inviting the audience to an anamnesis: he dialogues with the voice of the author in performance and deploys complex spaces and times in the videos that counterpoint the text.