A furnished room bound by transparent walls fitted with 700 ceramic tile forms the physical space of CHAMBER. Reflecting on Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, the performance makes one feel the existential necessity of connection.
Low vibration motors (for car seats) vibrate the walls: the ceramic tiles ring, crash, fall and break. CHAMBER assumes the fear of being eaten by the isolation of the room, as it were, when the walls that surround us become more alive than ourselves. Audio feedback, repetitive rhythmic patterns and the breath sounds of Paetzold recorders and walls, emphasise the alienating dimension of the emptiness and eeriness of a bedroom.
Sound design and musical writing: Sarah Wéry – Scenography, ceramics and lighting design: Milena Forest – Paetzold recorders: Tomma Wessel, Ines Rasbach and Katelijne Lanneau (Trio Apsara) – Live electronics support: Patrick Delges (Centre Henri Pousseur)
