SYSTEM

Artistic intention

System is seen as a work of transpositions. The first is the transposition of cosmic space to scenic space, the second, of infinite time to the tight time of the stage. I wish to be able to give an interpretation of the celestial immensities that surround us, and propose to the spectator to plunge into the contemplation of a system that reacts to its own laws, where energy is deployed and transformed unceasingly.

Within a repetitive cycle, bodies emerges and gradually reveals themselves. Like an infinite game between the four performers, this circular movement becomes energizing and jubilant, with encounters and separations, unity and shifts. Echoing Lucinda Childs' Radial Courses, System sees itself as a fragment of space-time, a structure in which bodies plunge and respond, in which weight and lightness complement each other to bring out an intimate proposal.

The race of the stars then becomes dance of men, who find themselves accomplices and constitute their own community around a common gesture. Carried away by the sound recordings of the universe published by NASA in 1992, both nebulous, harmonious and enigmatic, these bodies escape into the dimension of emptiness and stellar resonances.

But to the question of the establishment of a system follows the question of its own end; after the exposure of a repetitive module and the installation of a matrice arises the inverse phenomenon of its disintegration. These bodies that have organized and established themselves in a system will then detach themselves from it, causing a reversal of situations and time, a collapse, allowing an opening on new perspectives.

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Antoine Arbeit