Corpo Mundo – The Book
Publication directors Jordi Galí, Vânia Vaneau
Editorial coordination and advice Isabelle Drubigny
Writing Jérémy Damian, Jordi Galí, Charlotte Imbault, Emma Merabet, Alix de Morant, Wilson Le Personnic, Marie Pons, Vânia Vaneau
With the participation of Rémi Cabanac (astronomer, scientific director of the Pic du Midi), Christophe Desmur (zen monk), Nicolas Lelièvre (plastic artist), Nermin Salepci (mathematician)
Photographs David Le Borgne
Graphic design Bureau Roman Seban
Production, communication Marine Rehm
Distribution Rafaèle Wintergerst, Simge Gücük
Administration and partnerships Anne Lise Chrétien
Translations from English Ela Kotkowska
Drawings Jordi Galí, Vânia Vaneau
Published by Arrangement Provisoire
Partners ICI – CCN de Montpellier Occitanie ; Fondation d’entreprise Hermès ; Les SUBS Lyon – Lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques ; Atelier de Paris – CDCN
Thanks Le Pacifique – CDCN de Grenoble, Auvergne- Rhône-Alpes ; le CN D – Lyon ; Sandra Pasini ; Eric Villemain / Chez Nicéphore
Gathered together as choreographers within Arrangement Provisoire, a choreographic platform that Vania Vaneau and Jordi Galí have been co-directing since 2012, we would now like to question the strong axes that run through our respective artistic approaches. We want to examine their common roots in the light of the connections they weave with other fields of knowledge and other skills, and in dialogue with the thinking and practice of other artists, dance theorists and researchers.
Our choreographic gestures emerge from the friction between body and material(s). Our approaches cultivate a relationship with physical laws, with the living and the inert. They are situated at the limits of scientific knowledge, between quantum theories and spirituality, and the know-how that comes from working directly with it. An empirical and experimental knowledge, choreography – the art of making, of gesture, of time and space – is also the medium that allows us to reveal, through the body, the presence of the performers and their relationship with the scenographic elements, a reverberation of the living and the inanimate.
Corpo Mundo – for body and world matter – is an aesthetic attempt to understand our environment, through the exploration of various forms of writing that question the choreographic experience. In our work, we explore dynamic flows, and starting from the premise that the body always acts and reacts in continuity with what surrounds us, we see it in a tangle of reciprocal influences. Everything is in motion within us and around us, from the quantum particle to the Universe. So what tools can we use in choreographic creation to bring out the kinetic currents that animate and reanimate the world? To what extent can our relationship with the landscape, the creation of artefacts and the care we give to beings (human and non-human) be seen as different expressions of one and the same endeavour? Our aim is to make perceptible, through embodied experience, this dialogue between the energies that make the world become a world on a permanent basis.
Corpo Mundo – Exhibition
Corpo Mundo exhibition will start on 18th September at ICI CCN Montpellier. The exhibition takes visitors on an original journey through the writings that embody the many voices of the book of the same name: critics, journalists, researchers in dance and the performing arts, as well as an anthropologist, a photographer, a mathematician, a visual artist and a Zen monk.
The exhibition is both participatory and immersive, offering a range of physical and corporal experiences, as well as extracts from the book in audio podcast form. Jordi Galí and Vania Vaneau invite us to reflect deeply on dance, revealing how this art form can capture and interpret the subtleties of our environment, making the invisible visible.
By Jordi Galí and Vania Vaneau
Extracts from texts by Vania Vaneau and Jordi Galí, Alix de Morant, Charlotte Imbault, Wilson Le Personnic, Marie Pons, Emma Merabet, Jérémy Damian, Christophe Desmur, Rémi Cabanac, Nermin Salepci and Nicolas Lelievre
Voice Estelle Clement Bealem and Mathieu Besnier
Recordings François Payrastre
Photography David Le Borgne
Graphic design Bureau Roman Seban
Support ICI CCN Montpellier; Les SUBS Lyon; Atelier de Paris CDCN
From thu.19th september till fri. 20th december 2024 – CORPO MUNDO (Exhibition) - Vania Vaneau & Jordi Galí, Chambre d’écho, ICI CCN Montpellier (FR)
> Wed. 18th september – Exhibition Opening, ICI CCN Montpellier (FR)
Free admission without reservation – Exhibition on view from 19/09 to 20/12 – Open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2pm to 6pm, Fridays from 2pm to 5pm and 1 hour before each public event. More info ++