Performance
La Plante Dansante de Désastres
2024
【La Plante Dansante de Désastres】
【La plante dansante de désastres】 is a performative practice that recognizes the body as an instrument and the instrument as an extension of the body. Through this work, the performer reflects herself—an East Asian woman—onto the Korean traditional instrument, the gayageum. The relationship between the body and the instrument expands outward and inward: it either resists or reenacts the missions imposed on the female body, and focuses on the hidden layers of nameless sounds.
The question, “Could my body become an alternative space?” is a gesture of liberation—for both the performer and the instrument. The repetition of playing techniques, gestures, and sounds becomes a bodily resistance to the productivity and efficiency demanded by neoliberalism. It is a redemption of beauty. <La plante dansante de désastres>is a celebration of plants that dance in the midst of catastrophe.
In [The Flowers of Evil] by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, there is a poem titled ‘Hymn to Beauty’. There, Baudelaire plays with the words des astres (stars) and désastres (disasters). Beauty is a catastrophe that disturbs the order of the stars. It is a torch (flambeau) that lures the moth to its death. The word flambeau rhymes with tombeau (tomb). Both contain beau, the French word for beauty. The negativity of disaster, of fatal things, is one dimension of beauty. 1)
1) ByungChul Han, 『Saving Beauty』
☞performance documentation
Director | Jo Seon Ah
Choreography and Performence | Jo Seon Ah
Original Score and Arrangement | Jo Seon Ah
Production Manager | Bae Sang Hee
Set Designer | Kim Hye Jeong (NACA)
Sound Operation | Lee Seong Rock (Blue Red Studio)
Stage Manager | Hong Seung Ki
Stage Crew | Cho Jaewon
Graphic Designer | Macadamia Oh
Program Introduction | U Eun
Video Documentation | Kim Chang Gu
Photo Documentation | Yoon Kwanhee
Buddhist Chant Guide | Lee Seunghee
Special thanks to | Shin Wonjung, Yi Dooho
Support | Arts Council Korea
【La plante dansante de désastres】 is a performative practice that recognizes the body as an instrument and the instrument as an extension of the body. Through this work, the performer reflects herself—an East Asian woman—onto the Korean traditional instrument, the gayageum. The relationship between the body and the instrument expands outward and inward: it either resists or reenacts the missions imposed on the female body, and focuses on the hidden layers of nameless sounds.
The question, “Could my body become an alternative space?” is a gesture of liberation—for both the performer and the instrument. The repetition of playing techniques, gestures, and sounds becomes a bodily resistance to the productivity and efficiency demanded by neoliberalism. It is a redemption of beauty. <La plante dansante de désastres>is a celebration of plants that dance in the midst of catastrophe.
In [The Flowers of Evil] by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, there is a poem titled ‘Hymn to Beauty’. There, Baudelaire plays with the words des astres (stars) and désastres (disasters). Beauty is a catastrophe that disturbs the order of the stars. It is a torch (flambeau) that lures the moth to its death. The word flambeau rhymes with tombeau (tomb). Both contain beau, the French word for beauty. The negativity of disaster, of fatal things, is one dimension of beauty. 1)
1) ByungChul Han, 『Saving Beauty』
☞performance documentation
Director | Jo Seon Ah
Choreography and Performence | Jo Seon Ah
Original Score and Arrangement | Jo Seon Ah
Production Manager | Bae Sang Hee
Set Designer | Kim Hye Jeong (NACA)
Sound Operation | Lee Seong Rock (Blue Red Studio)
Stage Manager | Hong Seung Ki
Stage Crew | Cho Jaewon
Graphic Designer | Macadamia Oh
Program Introduction | U Eun
Video Documentation | Kim Chang Gu
Photo Documentation | Yoon Kwanhee
Buddhist Chant Guide | Lee Seunghee
Special thanks to | Shin Wonjung, Yi Dooho
Support | Arts Council Korea