Vocal performance, 17’, 2013 and booklet of sheet-music / documentation, 32 pages, 14.5 x 21cm, 2013 Something more than a succession of notes, 22.05 – 20.07.13, centre d’art et de recherche Bétonsalon, Paris
The performance Fabula reveals forgetting as an aspect of the alteration of an oral culture. Violaine Lochu take the popular fairy-tale Little Red Riding-Hood, from the oral tradition which became fixed in writting during the 17th century by Charles Perrault, and later by the Brothers Grimm. She takes her inspiration too from the oral versions of the tale which were collected from the mouths of storytellers in various French provinces at he beginning of the 20th century. By means of a game of intonation, silences and re-memorization, the artist reveals the lumps and cracks, the zones of shadow which form the fluctuating identity of all oral narrative. She implements a complex dynamic of slips, disappearances and reappearances which are unique to popular storytelling. With poetry, Violaine Lochu updates and repeats the accidents inherent in all forms of oral transmission: forgetting, deformations, and sudden appearances which constitute the vagaries of a though at once alive, incidental and shared.