Live performances et the MAC Créteil

Franck Vigroux (Compagnie d’Autres Cordes): Forêt
Annabelle Playe and Alexandra Rădulescu: KRASIS
Paradis Noir: Penishment

A longstanding partner to Biennale Némo, La Maison des Arts Créteil (Mac) is presenting Forêt, the conclusion of Franck Vigroux’s spectacular triptych, along with Annabelle Playe and Alexandra Rădulescu’s KRASIS, followed by a live electronic set by Paradis Noir (who wowed at CENTQUATRE-PARIS during the last edition).

Biennale Némo maintains close relationships with its artists. That couldn’t be clearer with Franck Vigroux, who is performing no fewer than three different shows in 2021. First with Antoine Schmitt for the world premiere of ATOTAL, which is headlining Blade Runner Weekend at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, (then with Kurt d’Haeseleer) at Philharmonie de Paris as part of our Grand Soir Numérique event (the evening before his concert at Mac!). His final performance, Forêt, takes us on another voyage into gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), an area in which he excels and has rivalled Romeo Castellucci for some time now. 

For her part, Annabelle Playe is making two appearances at Biennale Némo this year. First with Magna, a work in progress developed in partnership with Le Lavoir Numérique, and Le Générateur in Gentilly. Then at Mac with KRASIS, in which hybridity and interconnections form a contemporary piece that also sets out a vision of the world attuned to nature and its complex movements, offering a glimpse of what an acceptable, or even desirable, future could look like.

Our thumping final act is a live electronic set from Paradis Noir coinciding with the release of his new album Penishment. Expect ultra-slow, distorted hip-hop beats, metal guitars, atonal orchestra samples, and thunderous industrial breakbeats manipulated live, somewhere between Tool and Aphex Twin.

Image: Forêt © Frank Vigroux