Pauline Brun is a choreographer, dancer, performance and visual artist whose self-derisory, borderline absurd explorations of the body play with different contexts and media. Having studied dance at Conservatoire de Nice, visual arts at Villa Arson, also in Nice, and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and choreography at Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier, she makes interdisciplinarity an element of all her projects, which span performance and visual arts. She has presented her work at 3bisf for its Festival Parallèle, the Far Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, MAC VAL, Salon de Montrouge, MAMAC, La Station artist-run-space and Centre National de la Danse. As a performance artist or as a scenographer, she has worked with Fanny De Chaillé and Philippe Ramette, Alain Buffard (on a recreation of Mauvais Genre), Pol Pi, Jule Flierl, Nina Santes, Adaline Anobile, Jonas Chéreau and Antoine Cegarra, among others.
Pauline Brun
Dec. 2023
Project
CHINDOGU
Pauline Brun named her project CHINDOGU after the concept, launched in the 1980s, of inventing and building gadgets which are almost useful but ultimately impractical. Chindogu possesses a distinct performative and visual element, akin to a litany of abandoned inventions and shelved prototypes – or a humorous escape from capitalist efficiency. Brun developed CHINDOGU – a combination of dance, performance, scenography, costumes, sound and light – empirically, through an investigation into how this act of resistance emerged. She met Chindogu practitioners, collected existing Chindogu, and considered relationships to bodies, objects and spaces in contemporary Japanese choreographies and performances. This research became the impetus to translate the useless, the unusual and the deviant into choreographic actions and materials at every stage in the production of this creation.
Crédits
Œuvres:
© Pauline Brun, Raide d’équerre
© Pauline Brun et Marcos Simões, Tie-Tool
© Pauline Brun, Gna Gna Gna (Live)
© Pauline Brun, Étalon par défaut