Semantics of the void (2021)

A research project by Sandie Brischler: Writing-Installation, performance, film

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"The void is a presence in the invisible. 
It's taking place in a space in-between, a place of silence, of distance. 
Not the distance that separate, but the distance that unite"

(Teaser 3’38 min.)

EXPERIMENTAL FILM &  PROJECT OF RESEARCH

This exhibit is at first an experimental space of research for a transversal experience, because it moves from the body to words and sounds, between texts and textiles and writing, from empty spaces to traces. Its intention is above all an experiment to explore in time and space the ideas of interlude, suspense, silence and distance. Not those which separate, but those which unite. It is in this spirit that artists from diverse and convergent horizons come together for a new interpretation of the concept of « MA Space ». They propose to interact around the « univers of the void » and our never ending though never achieving efforts to say and to be.

L’espace MA (MA Space) is the idea of Space-Time relating things by giving them sense; it is the truth in the void between the words, between the lines; it is the pause, the interruption, the inaction between to movements, the silence between two words. MA Space is the power of the invisible, it is active immobility, full emptiness, the ability to develop the inner life as a form of being. Because it is the foundation of artistic creativity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

« All creation is a process doomed to incompleteness.

Forever vain attempts, to say and to exist… »

 

SYNOPSIS OF THE FILM

As the consequence of a collaborative project, the film “Semantics of the Void” is the product of an experimental performative research on the theme of the void and the inexpressible; it takes its source in the transversal potential of symbolic notational languages.

“Semantics of the Void” is a quest into the trace, the sign, and the primal character of the body. The Sign becomes “embodied”, while the body becomes Sign. In the process the film attempts to give shape to a new, an unknown language. It journeys towards the elusive, and explores a plurality of sense in search of an absolute “Saying”.

Wandering along an unknowable trace, in the form of suspended threads as moving vertical axes, the film unfolds in timeless slowness, guided by a texture of sound, which is also its materialization. Like in a tableau vivant or hypnotic painting, the observer is taken towards interstices where “something unseen” becomes visible, for instance the silence between lines, between words, or during a pause, suspension, the inaction between two movements… A space is found, where an invisible weave unfolds in an in-between, an un-said and a no-where: It is the space of passage, of silence, of distance. Not one that separates, but one that (re)unites.

By exploring these ruptures, as disconcerting as they are creative, the plot of the film translates an active immobility, a full void. The language, which first came here to deconstruct and lose itself, finds itself multiplied in another dimension. Ultimately, it makes the signs come alive in space, sew together the words through the writing of the body, and recreate the vertical trace or the primordial letter of the origin and of the end, inscribed in itself.

Le film is, like a mise en scene, a “mise en langage”, or a formulation in several dimensions. It reflects the traces of a forever-unfinished process, like our eternal attempts to be, to say and to exist… Which is the very foundation of artistic creation.

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Chapters of the film

1- The crossing  (filters of emptiness)

2- The language of absence

3- Breach (attempt)

4- Incorporation I

5- Re-writing and Incorporation II

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HISTORY OF THE PROJECT 

Semantics of the Void is a multi-dimensional project that began during an artistic residency at the Cunst Link gallery-workshop in Brussels in June 2019. The multidisciplinary artist Sandie Brischler initiated this research, in collaboration with three other artists: Nathalie Lenoir (contemporary dance and pole dance), Ariane Livadiotis and Emilie Bouchez (textile-design).

This transversal creative experience had as its theme “emptiness, the invisible and the unspeakable”, with at its foundation a corpus of unfinished texts, and an exhibition of “Notations”, graphic works by Sandie Brischler, based on the deconstruction of writing.

Semantics of the Void is a research experiment on the trace, the sign, and the primal character of the human body, the initial signal articulating ourselves in the flesh. The project translates itself in a space “in between”, by several levels of interactions in various forms of expressions, which resonate in the form of “incorporations”: Paper and textile installations, dance, sound and vocal explorations, weaving, performances between trace and integration of the body in the universe of the signifier.

Subsequently, a film (of the same name) retraces this creative process and its stages. The 52 minutes experimental documentary offers a restitution and synthesis of the project, leaving at the same time a unique trace, bringing together all these moments of interaction, these “weavings”, enriching its meaning.

An exploratory space par excellence, through the probing of symbolic languages, Semantics of the Void questions the creative process from the inside and attempts a process of materialization of the unspeakable… in search of an absolute verb, finally capable of saying.

Room 1: Installation of writing forms

 

 

 

 

« Filters of emptiness« 

(Installation: paper and textil)

 

« Lists of words » 

(Serie of drawings: Ink on paper, 50X60cm)

« Logorrhée » 

(Writing installation: Collages, fragments and notations,  120 X 200 cm)

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Room 2: Embodiements

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« Breach » 

Performance from the serie Body-writings

 

Incorporation I (Performance)

 

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Final installation:

Textil, drawing and dance performance Incorporation II

 

Soundtrack of the film: Works of acousmatic music with voice-over passages from Laurence Louppe’s text “the imperfections of paper” (on the notation of dance) punctuate the progress of the film.

Concept & Production: Sandie Brischler

Project carried out in collaboration with Ariane Livadiotis, Emilie Bouchez (textile and paper design) & Nathalie Lenoir (dance)

This project started as a collective exploration and collaboration, which took place in June 2019 as part of a residency at the Cunst Link gallery, in Brussels.