Joris Lacoste

With Emmanuelle Lafon
Artistic collaboration : Grégory Castéra and Frédéric Danos

Parlement is a solo performance for an actress who uses a variety of speech registers, such as pleading, poetic declamation, sports commentary, political speeches, answering machine messages and advertising spots. With a rare virtuosity, the actress Emmanuelle Lafon unfolds a speech in permanent mutation, crossed by the diversity of human speech.

The score of Parlement is composed from the sound corpus of the Encyclopédie de la Parole (Encyclopaedia of the Word), a project initiated by the Aubervilliers laboratories in 2007. Taking the form of listening sessions, conferences, performances, sound installations, workshops or radio pieces, the Encyclopaedia of the Word is an attempt to understand the plurality of oral forms. This project is based on elements gathered by an extended group of sound document collectors.

The version of Parlement presented here is produced by the Parc de La Villette in the framework of the Résidences d'Artistes and by the Soirées Nomades of the Fondation Cartier. A first version was produced by the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers and was presented there on 31 January and 1 February 2009 as part of the Encyclopédie de la Parole.