The starting point was: given the situation of deconfinement, how can we share our questions and our hypotheses for transforming our creations? We could do this by talking or by testing protocols adapted to the context.
This Permutation webconference brought together Charlotte Arnaud (set designer), Estelle Bertin (actress, writer and director with La Compagnie La Pépite), Clyde Chabot (writer, performer, director) and Laurence De La Fuente (writer and director).
Estelle Bertin wanted to display poems in the city of Saint-Denis, while encouraging contact with the inhabitants. But how do you create a link? By taking over the public space in a slow, poetic way, walking around dressed up in posters to arouse curiosity, and talking to the people they meet. And later, by inviting local residents to write poems in all the languages that co-exist in Saint-Denis.
Laurence De La Fuente was looking for ways to adapt an in situ writing and production project based on the addresses and living spaces of residents of Bordeaux and Lormont. She invited the permutantes to choose a place in their flat that echoed texts she had written about her previous addresses and what she had experienced there. And to read these texts off-screen. Indirectly inviting the audience to search in spite of themselves for associations and differences between the flats, scrupulously described, and the places filmed by the participants.
Clyde Chabot tested a protocol that would enable her to read her new text Childhood Friend to a group of people on a walk 1 metre away: she invited the permutantes to go for a walk and take photos echoing the text she had read to them, the story of which, about the abrupt end of a friendship in adolescence, takes place in the greenery.
Return of Laurence De La Fuente
In this context of crisis in our representations of otherness, and consequently in our artistic projections/productions, in the broadest sense, this common space created by the Permutations has enabled me to reexamine my project with this ephemeral community created by Clyde Chabot on the occasion of the Permutations that she has been developing for several years and in which I have had the pleasure of participating.
This digital Permutation enabled me to rethink my Résider project in the current context, in a context of exploration and great respect for individual artistic paths, and without any spirit of competition, which is also certainly linked to the fact that there were four creators involved.
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