Free with reservation, from Friday 30 August.
As part of the 2024 edition of the Festival d'Automne, the Bourse de Commerce is presenting the world premiere of the performance The Speech by Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė in the museum's Rotunda.
Artist Lina Lapelytė explores performance through music, sound, and the visual arts. As a gathering of a hundred of children and teenagers, this new large-scale performance, titled The Speech, invokes nature to speak about relations and care.
The Speech extends Lina Lapelytė’s conceptual and site-specific experimentation into the connection between sound and togetherness. As such, the performance’s premise initially stresses a rupture: that experienced by increasingly urbanized generations, ever further separated from natural environments. Here, the artist wonders how the memories and fantasies that animals might evoke in youths can be rendered through sound. Play becomes a key tool in prompting these associations through a chorus of voices. What might emerge is an unexpected soundscape composed of vocalizations that form chimerical reverberations rather than individually recognizable sounds. It is perhaps this very sonic camouflage, at the core of the piece’s partition, that best evokes our growing distance from companion species. It is also through this shared venture that the artist examines kinship within a group, gathering children and teenagers alike. Tender connections might be rekindled through the very act of sounding together.
The Speech
Conception direction and composition : by Lina Lapelytė
Artistic team : Liza Baliasnaja, Paola Córdova, Rūta Kiškytė, Martynas Norvaiša, Paola Cordova
Coordination : Povilas Gumbis, Gabrielė Golubovičiūtė
With 100 children. School establishments : secondary school Saint-Joseph, primary school of la Villette, primary school Claude-Vellefaux, primary school Jardinet.
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is the producer of this show and presents it in co-direction with Pinault Collection.
Event organised as part of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024.
