Frederique and Madaleine share a common interest in exploring and subverting the resonances of materials and their impact on body and scenography. For their first collaboration, they reflected on spaces that can both constrain movement and offer new performance possibilities.
During their initial residency at nadine, they designed a series of experiments for each other. Specifically responding to the site of PLATEAU, they composed confined spaces which they filled with familiar yet dislocated objects. In this fabricated domesticity, they explored new interactions between space, body and props.
Their dramaturgical research focused on cases of environmental disease, cabin fever, the impact of solitary confinement in prisons, artificial gravity, insomnia and the history of monomania in art practice.
On Wednesday 27th of June they would like to share their discoveries with you; guiding you through the material they’ve collected in these investigations. They will give an informal presentation of this work in progress at 18:30 at PLATEAU. Frederique and Madaleine will welcome all feedback, thoughts, productive resistances, enthusiasm and silences.
Madaleine Trigg:
Since graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2008, she has toured her solo piece, Sutre, nationally and internationally. Sutre is a solo performance that features sculptural costumes, which evolve and decay as a visual echo of the performer’s emotions. It culminates in a disintegrating dress, which has been transformed into a hologram through a collaboration with Musion. This was exhibited at the Kinetica Art fair (London), The Wrong Weather Gallery (Porto) and also represented the UK in the Extreme Costume Exhibition at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. Madaleine regularly collaborates with other artists and has performed at the ICA, the Place, the Roundhouse, the BAC, Shunt lounge and at the National Theatre Studio. Madaleine’s photographic practice experiments with pinhole cameras, photograms and alternative processes; enabling her to print images onto glass, wood and metal. Her latest performance, The Darkroom, premiered at this year’s Brighton Fringe Festival. This piece, inspired by the photograms created by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, merges a poetic text by Alan Fielden with live photographic processing.
Frederique de Montblanc:
Born and raised in Brussels, Frédérique de Montblanc completed her BFA in Theatre at Concordia University in Montreal in 2004. She then obtained her MFA from the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles in 2007. Both scenographer and video artist, her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles (Outpost Gallery for Contemporary Art, Highways Performance Space, BetaLevel Gallery, CalArts), Houston (Lawndale Art Center, Artstorm Gallery, Slab in Temporary Space, Nance Street Studios) and more recently in Brussels (Nadine, Vasthouse, BAF, Art Asylum). Her set design work includes Firebird and Titus Andronicus with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre Company based in Houston, TX. More recently, she has designed I Would Prefer Not To by Selma Alaoui (Theatre les Tanneurs, Brussels) as well as Les Buveuses de Cafe by Compagnie Mossoux-Bonte (Theatre Romain Rolland, Paris | Internationales Figurentheater, Erlangen | Theatre des Brigittines, Brussels). Her video La Cave is currently airing on the web channel of Arte creative. Frederique’s next exhibition will be on July 7th at the Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Chatre in Paris.
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