Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Lina Lapelytė – The Speech, 2024
2024
Video, colour, sound, 21’
Venue
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Metropolitan area
Née en 1984 à Kaunas, Lituanie
Vit et travaille à Londres, Royaume-Uni et Vilnius, Lituanie
Lina Lapelytė uses music, installation and performance to transform individual narratives into collective voices. She works with both professional and amateur performers often using voice. Their vocal performance develops into a collective, emotionally charged event that celebrates polyphony, attentive listening and individual expression. By the way her works break with the codes of Western musical tradition, she invites us to reconsider existing social constructs and to rethink the place of the individual within the community.
In spite of its title, Lina Lapelytė’s work The Speech suggests failure of speech and absence of verbal language. Starting from a reflection on our disconnect with the natural environment and our increasing estrangement from our companion species, Lapelytė explores voices that are not usually heard, such as those of children and animals. Filmed at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris, the performance involves a hundred or so young people and reflects on their memories and fantasies about animals. The Speech is a work on primal impulses and our relationship with each other; nature and the loss of control.
Courtesy of the artist
Creation for the 17th Lyon Biennale
Concept and direction: Lina Lapelytė
Video direction: Martynas Norvaišas
Directors of photography: Martynas Norvaišas and Nikolas Verseckas
Sound recordist: Yoën Cousot--Paoli
Sound designer: Vytis Puronas
Video editor: Ignė Narbutaitė
Color correction: Karolis Labutis, Postcoast
Producer/studio manager: Gabrielė Golubovičiūtė
Performance artistic collaborator: Paola Cordova
Scenographer: Rūta Kiškytė
Choreography advisor: Liza Baliasnaja
Performers: Blanche Giraudon, Lou Lenormand, Lisa Rinsoz, Madeline Tual, children from Collège Saint-Joseph, école élémentaire
de la Villette, école élémentaire Claude-Vellefaux, école élémentaire Jardinet
Performance co-produced by The Festival d’Automne à Paris and Pinault Collection and presented in 2024 at the Bourse de
Commerce – Pinault Collection (Paris) © Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, NeM / Niney and Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier
Video co-commissioned by La Biennale de Lyon and Kaunas Biennial
In the framework of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024
With the support of Fluxus Art Projects
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