Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur

Infrarouge /

Montreal

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In Search of Lost Time
Time exploded into a thousand fragments, the origins and the end of the world coexisting in the moment. A child who dreams, creating monsters and fears, and a dying old lady – Marie Brassard, a curious, scintillating elf, invites the audience to question the tangible and to challenge the intangible. She presents a personal myth of the creation of the world, portraying moments from her childhood and delving into the twists and turns of time, finding herself back in the mists of dreams.

With her inquisitive mind and sensitive body, she marks her much anticipated return to the FTA with an entrancing odyssey concocted from memories of her adolescent years in a small town spent listening to loud music and dancing in bars, fearlessly plunging forward toward the future.

Filmmaker Karl Lemieux’s video images are in perfect symbiosis with her fragmented universe. She shares the stage with the musicians and composers Alexandre St-Onge and Jonathan Parant as she presents a poetic autofiction that is incantatory and hallucinogenic.

Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur

Marie Brassard

Protean and Poetic
A multidisciplinary artist ever keen to explore new forms of artistic expression, Marie Brassard created her first solo work in 2001, Jimmy, créature de rêve. This was followed by striking pieces such as La noirceur, Peepshow and L'invisible, all of which were presented at the FTA before going on to tour Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. Inspired by dreams, otherness and altered states, she makes exquisite use of sound, images and new technologies as she journeys beyond the boundaries of the tangible, the barriers of chronology dissolving as she probes different possible realities.

Infrarouge / Bewitching and Beguiling
Marie Brassard created the Montreal theatre company Infrarouge in 2001, exploring a multimedia art form that incorporates sound, images, speech and movement. Her first solo piece Jimmy, créature de rêve was presented in Dublin, New York, Paris and Melbourne. La Noirceur, Peepshow and L’Invisible involved collaboration with artists from here and abroad. The company’s sixth piece, Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur, has been performed in Vienna, Ottawa and Berlin.

Press Quote(s)

« Marie Brassard présentait (…) un objet artistique d'une pulsation on ne peut plus vibrante. Choisissant de laisser choir instinctivement sa proposition entre le théâtre, la poésie et le performing art, Brassard surprend, hypnotise et envoûte avec ses récits souvent schizophréniques empreints d'une nostalgie liée à l'enfance, qui traitent notamment de la trace que la créatrice laissera dans l'univers. »
Guillaume Moffet, Voir Ottawa-Gatineau, 23 déc. 2010

« Murmures d'une enfance rock'n'roll colorée par des dérives chimériques, de Morphée à morphine c'est la promesse d'un abandon électrisant auquel nous convie cette héroïne des solos. Micro au poing, l'aventurière psychédélique se propose de défier les lois temporelles et, en « rêveuse définitive », façonne son propre temps dans une interprétation où règnent mouvements et sensations, scènes réelles et fictives, mythe intime et histoire des origines... Aurait-on alors pu imaginer un autre titre que Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur ? »
Maud Cucchi, Le Droit, 8 déc. 2010

"Who wouldn't like to listen to a story that begins in a Coconut-Bar-Motel in Trois-Rivières, on the St-Lawrence River in Québec? (...) This is exactly where Brassard's observations lead us: Which parts of me do really exist? Which parts only exist in a dream state? How can you lose control over your thoughts? And what distinguishes one from the other? Jonathan Parant and Alexandre St-Onge on their laptops allow us to enter deep into these worlds of observation, which blend together like in a song and never take us back to the Coconut-Bar."
Kultur (Vienne), 22 mai 2010

Credits

PRODUCED BY INFRAROUGE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MARIE BRASSARD WITH MARIE BRASSARD + JONATHAN PARANT + ALEXANDRE ST-ONGE MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN JONATHAN PARANT + ALEXANDRE ST-ONGE LIGHTING AND VIDEO DESIGN MIKKO HYNNINEN FILM 16 MM + VIDEO KARL LEMIEUX + PHILIPPE TREMBLAY-BERBERI SOUND EDITING + SOUND DESIGN FRÉDÉRIC AUGER

COPRODUCTION FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES + THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DU CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS + WIENER FESTWOCHEN (VIENNE) + THEATER IM PUMPENHAUS (MÜNSTER)

PREMIERED IN JUNE 2010 DURING THE WIENERFESTWOCHEN AT THE BRUT IM KÜNSTLERHAUS, VIENNA

WRITTEN BY DIANE JEAN TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH