Mains d'Œuvres

Chelsea Zeffiro

Ann — 2013-05-06T11:22:17Z

Chelsea is participating in Los Angeles Chez Vous and is accompanying Nate Page and Akatre.

Chelsea Zeffiro graduated with a bachelor's degree from University of Southern California in 2011 after studying Comparative Literature. Then, she bought a plane ticket to Paris. Shortly after, she decided to stay there. She has worked some odd jobs and has met many interesting people, that have led her here to Mains d'Oeuvres and to this project, Los Angeles Chez Vous.

Iduun collective

Agnès Le Foulgoc — 2012-09-02T14:27:43Z

Artists in residence • Theatre and Digital art
Since September 2012
Every Iduun's creation is an invitation to travel, a permanent search of the numeric field borrowing by poetry, theater, danse and cinema continuously oscillating between performative art, installations and live performances. Hybrid. Like the 4 creators who infuse the strange energy of the collective depuis 2007...

The collective

Director and handyman, Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff, whose real name is Bart, let speaks the images which he considered as a natural beginning to explore new tale ways: complex, interactives, free of every pressure and stagecraft in the same time. His compound cooperations (Chkrrr, Prix Paris Jeunes Talents 2007, Astrée X by Gildas Loupiac...) brought him to see the video as a massive stage media.

Philippe Chaurand (Anome) has a passion for graphic design and animation since childhood. In 2004, he discovered playing videos « live » and started working with rock and electronic musicians. He shares, with us, his universes, made up of fantasy and personal emotions. In 2011 he creates Millumin a powerful tool dedicated to the stage which allows easy video integration and interactions on stage.

Ex dancer, Alexandra Petracchi is an illustrator - freelance graphic designer. Her trips in the imagination gave her the opportunity to work in children's publishing as an illustrator and art director of edutainment projects. When she's not traveling, she's flying from flash animations to posters and other visual identities, often for the cultural sector. And when she finally lands, it is to tell us about his magical life made of strange creatures...

Charles dubois is a sound engineer for TV and cinema. His work of sound creation for animated cartoon brings him to work with iduun, in creating sound universes for installations and performances.

Works

Kadâmbini • Audiovisual and cinema show • 2010
A club placed there, in the middle of nowhere. Kadâmbini, handlebar mustache and aviator glasses screwed on his head, is ready for the most incredible journey of his life : a journey mode of nonsense, absurdity and manipulation, built of loops, lights and reversed situations. Kadâmbini is an audio-video show, a meeting between the art of the stage and the digital technologies. The show combines upstream videos and animations, edited and sound designed on-stage. The stage play –manipulation of frames, objects or sounds, but also mapping, video FX and shooting – interacts with the movie projected on the screen, so that one can not exist without the other and vice-versa. We forget the computer and acting finds an important place on stage and on the screen. The poetic world of Kadâmbini is inspired by Lewis Carroll, Homer, Saint Exupery and Terry Gilliam for a journey that follows its own dreamy logic. Kadâmbini has been nominated to the Paris Young Talents Price 2011.

Kadâmbini - Teaser Live from Iduun on Vimeo.

The Iduun collective arrives in residency at Mains d'Œuvres on september 2012, to prepare their next creation.

Megan May Daalder : The Mirror Box

Ann — 2012-02-13T14:20:40Z

In residency currently at Mains d'Œuvres, Megan will present on the 26th the findings of her research thus far in a short autobiographical film which documents the project's development.
She will also offer a SENSORY SALON after the screening with unique experiences and illusions for the audience to try.

The Mirrorbox is a year long study in shared identity which had it's European premier at Mains D'Œuvres last year. This art project has officially become a scientific research pilot, and has been prototyped as a practical tool for everyday use. During the residency at Mains D'Œuvres the Mirrorbox will have one day exhibitions in homes in Paris, where people can use it in a variety of contexts.

During the month of February, Megan will also begin research on a tool for generating electricity and choreography using pull string dynamos. A first (non-functional) prototype can be seen here http://vimeo.com/32176560.

More work can be seen here

KARL SIMS

http://vimeo.com/10761156

and here
NINOTCHKA

http://vimeo.com/24950420

English texts about the Mirror Box :

Megan Daalder's Mirrorbox has taken the most narcissistic impulse and made it something joyful and benign. Made up of two very simply constructed boxes – black box theaters for one's head, really – the work invites two people, whether lovers or perfect strangers, to enter their prescribed confinement and stare at one another, and simultaneously themselves, for a duration of four somewhat unnerving minutes.
My first experience of Mirrorbox was with Daalder herself, a graduate of UCLA's Design Media Arts Bachelor program. Waiting around before my own performative stint in Chinatown's Perform! Now! festival in Los Angeles, I happened upon a small black room (nay, closet) and entered with some trepidation. I was greeted by a smiling young woman who asked if I wanted to try “the Mirrorbox”. Moments later, I found myself inside the piece, staring into a two-way mirror and grinning wildly as Daalder's face pulsed slowly in and out of my own reflection. It was completely unexpected, and my delight was utterly infectious. We fell into brief fits of giggles throughout our conversation about her artistic practice, though I couldn't quite coax Daalder into revealing the technology behind the work. We hugged after emerging from our respective realms; it felt right after sharing what we agreed was a truly special exchange.
Afterwards, I wondered if I had found the artist so beautiful because she really is, or if I was actually confusing that attraction with being enamored of my own reflection – a very strange dilemma to grapple with. Mirrorbox is a provocative work: it is deeply, uncomfortably about social interaction, intimacy, and above all, the perception of oneself and others, making the delineation between the two difficult to isolate.
Amanda Hunt

Being in the box is a poem, interacting with the box for a night is a short story remember, pop songs are poems too. and they exist in the background to bring people together. that's why they're appropriately always about love and partying. and we hear songs and think of the people we were with when we heard them.
For some reason i keep thinking of your box in terms of music. when people are in there chitchatting, or having fun, it's like a pop song.
Jon Bernad

Dear Megan,
Sorry for the lateness, but I needed to sharpen my Mirror-writing. When writing to the mirror girl write a mirror letter. In the spring I wrote each nights dreams this way, backwards and sinister, which is to say lefty. For a while, lets say the past year, I've been a bit fascinated by identification with the other and the androgyny of all things. You and I I think are particularly androgynous specimens, and it was so easy to immediately see ourselves in each other. Yes we have similar features, both fair Dutch types, but it's so much more isn't it? What does happen when very different types enter the box. An old asian woman and a young black man? There is so much potential for breaking down walls, which is also what scare some folks, particularly men, away. Not everyone wants to destroy walls. Many folks love their walls. Walls provide safety. Keeping the darkness out, separating oneself from ones neighbor, offering privacy. Many folks fear the abyss, where divisions disappear and boarders blur. Those of us from the West, which is not most of the world, are raised to fear that side, when really, it's a place of lightness and fun. Even for two men. It's intimacy gives it a feminine tint. I think many men would enjoy the box more with a woman than risk the awkwardness of staring at another man. Maybe it's partially due to the monotheism pervading even secular corners of modern society. I can picture a Mongolian horseman and a hindu beggar man enjoying the box much more than say a saudi business man oil tycoon, and a mexican day labor. The Muslim and the catholic have been instilled with an ego-maniacal male god who would destroy all others who forbids the darkness and declares wicked the feminine. The Hindu has been taught of many gods and goddesses and the Buddhist with none. Women all over the world I think would enjoy more freely the Mirrorbox because the damage done by the instilled god, it is nonetheless an acceptance of the male power within and the wicked feminine power which the men must destroy within themselves, must be accepted in a woman since it is near impossible to destroy them. So women retain both male and female and and an acceptance, albeit reluctantly, of the shadow while men have only the fascist war god, who refuses all others, point being some men may not react so well to your wonderful creation. Yesterday I heard an episode of WNYCs Radiolab particularly relevant to your work. Who am I? dated 2007.05.08 especially the first 5 minutes. Check I-Tunes. It snowed again here in NYC, hardly leaving the house for the past few weeks I've set up a nice sort of office to write songs and records and drink tea.
John Houx

PS I hope you noticed you can read this from the other side rather than holding it to a mirror.

Emily Mast : NEVER IT'S NOW OR

Ann — 2012-02-13T10:10:18Z

LA-based artist Emily Mast works closely with Muguette Guttadauria, an elderly resident of St. Ouen for the entire month of February to gather memory fragments, unfinished stories, and personal anecdotes related to Muguette's idiosyncratic life. The resulting accumulation of details will be juxtaposed to form a pointillist portrait of sorts, or rather a landscape comprised of various highly textured, emotionally-charged terrains. This splintered life story comprised only of subjective snippets intentionally pokes at places where authenticity and imagination overlap.

NEVER IT'S NOW OR

A performance by Emily Mast
With Muguette Guttadauria
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 5 pm
Mains d'Œuvres, Salle Star Trek

Based on extensive interviews recorded while in residence at Mains d'œuvres, the piece is a hybrid between a classic theatrical monologue, stand-up comedy and so-called avant-garde performance art. Recurring memories, self-reflexive commentary and humor are all important components of this piece which is ultimately an attempt to assess and even rewrite one's past in the present tense while looking towards the future.

Emily Mast is an artist-in-residence at Mains d'œuvres for the month of February. She works primarily with people, movement and sound to advocate uncertainty as live sculptural material. In 2009 she presented a live looping play called “Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)” for Performa 09 in New York. She recently restaged Peter Handke's “Offending The Audience” with seven children. Her work has been seen at MUHKA in Antwerp, Samson Projects in Boston, REDCAT, the Velaslavasay Panorama Theater, Human Resources, Steve Turner Contemporary, Blackbox and 533 in Los Angeles. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, unitednationsplaza, Skowhegan, Yaddo and Headlands. Last year she was part of a symposium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York examining the role of the audience in contemporary performance art.

http://emilymast.com/

Open Atelier #1 : Lab party

Agnès Le Foulgoc — 2011-08-24T14:31:01Z

First we play ! What do we play ? To look at ? What to look at ? All that is material, our Tools, technologies… Now imagine.. Your lab. A place where we fiddle with, a workshop where we strip tv, where we add components to computers, where we recycle remote control pieces, where we change use, where we question the needs, where we find tricks, where we build machines, inventions… Today, let you bring to foresee technologies through creative and daily use. Let's have a party ! This the 10th anniversary of Mains d'Œuvres and also the 5 years old of the CRAS (Art Sensitif Resource Centre)

The CRAS or Art Sensitif Resource Centre welcomes publics who wish to learn and test real time interaction technologies in Art : artists, students, teachers and all artistic and technological partners. The CRASlab consists of a show-room dedicated to the demonstration and self-learning on sensors and actuators and accompanies also educative programs about free hardware and free software like Freeduino, CUI, Processing and Pure Data.

“The Open Ateliers are opened time, for exchanges and practices around digital creation and open source multimedia tools” Proposed initially by medialab PING, the concept spreads little by little in others places … http://openatelier.pingbase.net/
http://openatelier.labomedia.org/
http://openatelier.reso-nance.org

Saturday afternoon in 3 times :?
Play, meet and party !

UNDER CONNEXION !
15H30-17H30, workshop for all

« Under connexion » is a full size game, in working progress that questions digital stakes from 1960 to nowadays. Through social organization, politics, ecology and tools you will find answers at the same time as discovering artistic projects and alternative functioning.
Lead by Under Construction, in residency in Mains d'Œuvres.

BARCAMP & INSTALLATIONS
from 18H

The restaurant will be invaded by tummies, prototypes, inventions, demonstrations, tools, projects and materials. The participants from the night course Arduino will present their projects in a Barcamp ambient : participating workshop-event, opened to everybody !

A exhibition space with installations :

ENDOSCOPIE - Corinne Laurent

OUT OF ORDER - Jason Cook

AKUERY - Yro / Jesse Lucas

PYANO - Yro / Romain Serrate, Pierce Warnecke

PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS
from 20H

The digital creation is celebrated in Mains d'Œuvres for its 10 years old and the 5 years old of CRAS.

TOYS'R'NOISE http://toysrnoise.free.fr/

KADAMBINI par Iduun http://www.iduun.com

EILE par Yro http://www.yroyto.com

857 CLUSTERS par Pascale Gustin

Dance residencies – creating differently

2009-09-03T12:34:34Z

While you can't really create an artist, you can create the space for one to emerge. S. Sloat in Mouvement Research Journal #31

Dance residencies – creating differently

Mains d'Œuvres is an independent art space which aims at inventing a new way of supporting artists and their creativity. We try to instigate and nurture rigorous discourse and wide-ranging experimentation in movement-based forms and to encourage new choregraphy.

Mains d'Œuvres serves as a creative laboratory and incubator for emerging artists and ideas in a supportive, guided environment. Mains d'Œuvres supports creative process and not necessarily the final product which is why we mainly provide an extensive artist-in-residence programmes, all of them tailored to meet the artists' needs and wishes.

Mains d'Œuvres wishes to be the creative tool which invents a new relationship to the artists, to their project and to the community - a tool providing the artist with the time, the support and the trust necessary to foster poetic intelligence.

The dance residency programs are open to projects which are singular in their research as well as in their attempt to investigate, (re)question or rethink the art of choreography and more generally, our society. We welcome dance or non dance projects, urgent or derisive, projects which are rooted in the textures of body, soul or time, which blur borders between arts, which take a stand rather than atttempt to seduce. Purely aesthetic dance, purely virtuoso dance, dance qith no consideration for the public, dance that says nothing, doubts nothing, arouses nothing…will have difficulties in being nourished by this venue.

Guiding and supporting

Our residency programmes rely on three key words : time, trust and creative risk-taking given to the artist and his/her research. This leads to inventing a relationship of companionship with a venue and its team with the artist during all his project, from idea to production including intermediate steps. Mains d'Œuvres values the individual artist rather than specific pieces or projecst, that is why our programmes go beyond a single project. Our concern is to render resident artists annd companies profesionally and financially autonomous with a faithful audience upon leaving our venue.

In this world of uniformity, speed and cost-effectiveness Mains d'Œuvres will continue to give time to the artists-to-be and those already there; it is a place which gives itself the freedom and privilege to share and cherish the same dream with an artist in order to create together poetic intelligence and thus maybe change the world.

The artist-in residence programmes

There are 3 types of choreographic residency-programs :

I) project based (approx. 1 year) mainly conceived for young emerging choreographers. They are invited to work on a specific project. An individualised framework will be conceived for each of them depending on experience, profesional development and research plan in n order to meet their specific needs throughout the whole creative process (finacial, administrative, and artistic). II) Long-term residency (3 yrs. max.) is offered to companies who want to join their adventure to ours and who wish to nourish their research through this venue and the surrounding community. It is a specific framework which gives the time to explore new things differently and develop audacious new choregraphic forms III) Research (max. 3 weeks) This is a time given to artists who need to explore different materials or resolve thechnical questions with no result production whatsoever. It is the programme which allows the artist to take risks, make mistakes and start over.

How to apply : Please send a presentation of your project, your resume and a video of a previous work (if any) to Nicolas Chaussy. There is no deadline and we welcome applications throughout the year. However, artists and projects are chosen six months in advance. We will respond within 30 days. The entire application can be submitted via email or by regular postal mail.

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history and site

2006-11-15T14:28:50Z

- English

Mains d'Œuvres - Introduction

2006-09-27T06:45:47Z

Mains d'Œuvres is a cultural place open to contemporary research in the fields of arts and society. This place of work residencies, public events, meeting and experiences aims at welcoming artists from all disciplines, as well as associative and citizen experiences.

The functioning of Mains d'Œuvres relies on decompartmentalization, interaction, exchange and partnership with numerous public and private entities. The place is dedicated to all the people who seek synergies, interfaces, whatever are their artistic – music, visual arts, dance, theatre, multimedia... – or thinking and action fields – education, politics, information and communication technologies, international co-operation...

Mains d'Œuvres proposes technical, logistics and human resources to the resident artists and associations in order to accompany them in their projects and artistic production. Thus, Mains d'Œuvres intends to supply all the best conditions for the development of creations and new experiences willing to link art, culture and society.

Mains d'Œuvres also collaborates with numerous national and international networks.

This 4000 m2 space, with its unfinished and friendly touch, generates activity and creativity. Mains d'Œuvres wants to settle on a long run scheme while remaining adapted to the permanent evolution of the system

Mains d'Œuvres
1, rue Charles Garnier, 93 400 Saint-Ouen France

Tel : (33) 1 40 11 25 25 / Fax : (33) 1 40 11 25 24
mail: info@mainsdoeuvres.org
web: www.mainsdoeuvres.org

Mains d'Œuvres

Chelsea Zeffiro

Iduun collective

The collective

Works

Megan May Daalder : The Mirror Box

Emily Mast : NEVER IT'S NOW OR

Open Atelier #1 : Lab party

Saturday afternoon in 3 times :? Play, meet and party !

ENDOSCOPIE - Corinne Laurent

OUT OF ORDER - Jason Cook

AKUERY - Yro / Jesse Lucas

PYANO - Yro / Romain Serrate, Pierce Warnecke

TOYS'R'NOISE http://toysrnoise.free.fr/

KADAMBINI par Iduun http://www.iduun.com

EILE par Yro http://www.yroyto.com

857 CLUSTERS par Pascale Gustin

Dance residencies – creating differently

Dance residencies – creating differently

The artist-in residence programmes

history and site

Mains d'Œuvres - Introduction

Saturday afternoon in 3 times :?
Play, meet and party !