About the project

IN BETWEEN

A series of instantaneous installations - performances

A co-production by Akemi Nagao, Elma Riza and Aurélie Pertusot

Collaboration / Experimentation / Process / Listening / Space / Time / Site-specific / Moving Landscape / Minimal / Movement / Sound / Image / Object / Abstraction / Geometry / Extension / Repetition / Duration / Resonance / Real time composition…

2013-2018

In 2013, Elma Riza & Aurélie Pertusot, both visual artists, met and and found a lot of resonance in their respective works about space and lines. They decided to collaborate and invite the dancer Akemi Nagao to join them for this research. At fist glance the esthetic of their works have a lot of similarity and echo one another (minimal, exploration of the site and the space with the body, utilisation of geometric patterns). Each artist has her own path, her own approach, her own language. And this is what will add variety to this project and define the particularity of the interdisciplinary approach from IN BETWEEN.

The idea is to create a series of performances-installations with three universes, three personalities, three temporalities, and to develop a common language with the intention to create another perception of space by using simple elements. Each creation resonate from one place to the next.

A series of installations-performances in constant transformation are created with a minimum duration of 60 minutes. 

The bodies moves in this imaginary spaces, present and removes lines and shapes. With these visual elements they will create and delineate new spaces. Incrementally from the performance, a dialog will appear, a link between the organic presence of the body and the created geometric shapes/patterns. The bodies are a part of the compositions created in the moment and each presence establishes a different relations/connections to this ephemeral landscapes.