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Gisèle Vienne

Jerck
Les Soirées Nomades de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain — Studio du CDC

Gisèle Vienne

© Alain Monot

Based on a novella by Dennis Cooper
Conception and direction : Gisèle Vienne
Dramatization and adaptation : Dennis Cooper
Original music: Peter Rehberg and El Mundo Frio by Corrupted
Created in collaboration with, and performed by : Jonathan Capdevielle

 

In the mid-19760s, the serial killer Dean Corll murdered some twenty boys with the help of two teenage accomplices. Jerk , a piece with Bataille-like overtones by the American writer Dennis Cooper, describes that bloody saga through the voice of one of the perpetrators. By giving this text to the actor and puppeteer Jonathan Capdeveille, Gisèle Vienne pursues her work about the relation between fiction and reality. The perfectly mastered form of the spectacle, the subtlety of the puppets, and the almost plaintive narrative uttered by the lead character all remove the sense of reality from the text's violence, and plunge the spectator into a sense of overall uneasiness.

Co-produced with the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées.