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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39797| Title: | INSTRUCTIONS (RED COMFORT) | Contributors/Performers: | SCHWARZ, Margaux | Issue Date: | 2022 | Abstract: | INSTRUCTIONS (RED COMFORT) Performance Cast: Irina Jasnowski Pascual Script and direction: Margaux Schwarz @ Sugar for the Pill, De Studio (Antwerp,BE) 2022 ‘INSTRUCTIONS (RED COMFORT)’ is a sound piece installed behind the doors of the basement’s circular corridor of a former bank. We hear a female voice giving instructions in the name of an unspecified «We». Her interactions are akin to a kind of training, alternately infantilizing, condescending, mothering or authoritarian when she is not herself dominated. A comfortable red armchair (a cinema, a psychoanalyst, a dentist or a massage armchair?) is available to the audience. | Keywords: | Sound piece | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39797 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://antwerpartweekend.be/news/margaux-schwarz?token=061833827df4603dfe587b8afb6055c7290f9c2b | Discipline: | audiovisuele kunsten | Research Context: | The sound piece 'INSTRUCTIONS (Red Comfort)’ was firstly developed as a performance in the framework of 'BODIES OF EVIDENCE', a symposium on embodied knowledge jointly organized by RITCS School of Arts, Brussels Arts Platform, VUB, PXL-MAD School of Arts, UHasselt, ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts) & Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel; this sound installation is an adaptation of this performance and was shown in May 2022 at De Studio in the frame of Art Antwerp. As part of the research project ‘VOICE ROLES’, the script for this sound piece blends language and interactions gathered from interviews or field recordings with sex workers and BDSM practitioners, as well as from conversations with customs agents or youtube videos of horse training. These different forms of address, ranging from dressage to sex training to police interrogation have been collected, transcripted and then scripted and performed in order to explore issues related to voice and its performativity within specific professional or contractual interactions. A red leather armchair (from the cinema, psychoanalyst, dentist or massage therapist) is put at the disposal of the public in order to raise questions about the (audio) spectatorship and more particularly about their status as (sound) voyeurs. | Impact Description: | Another adaptation of this sound installation has been shown as a performance and a sound installation at the art space 'fluent' (Santander, SP) in March 2023. | Related Info: | De Studio, Antwerp Art Weekend Antwerp Art Weekend |
Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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