Productions

Franck Vigroux, Kurt d’Haesleer
(France, Belgium)

The audiovisual concert "The Island" is the most recent collaboration between composer Franck Vigroux and video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer. A prolix duo who endeavor to find common modes of artistic language and try to invent synesthetic experiences with an identity of their own. „The Island” is a sensorial, associative and electrifying experience, inspired by a number of stories of islands and valleys destined to be submerged by the construction of a hydroelectric dam, causing deep human and geographic upheaval. The immersions of Naussac in Lozère (a village engulfed in 1980), the novel "Farewell, Little Island" by Valentin Raspoutine, or the 3 Gorges dam in China (which is so big it influenced the speed of rotation of Planet Earth) spring to mind. „The Island” questions the replacement of one world by another and our blind belief in progress. A phantasmagorical universe unfolds through incisive electronic music and reality-bending video images, resulting in a "mental journey" through a topography of mutating places.

Duration: 45 min
Language no problem

Production Cie D’Autres Cordes; co-production Anis Gras, Werktank; support Cie D’Autres Cordes; co-support Werktank with Flemish Authorities; residency Stuk (Leuven, BEL); Espace des Anges (Mende, FRA); Imago / VIDEOFORMES (Clermont-Ferrand, FRA). Thanks Folie Numérique (Paris).

Performance at the Baltoscandal festival is supported by the French Institute in Estonia.