Joëlle Pidoux

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Bodies of Water

Sound performance with Philipp Kehder @ Hosek Contemporary, Berlin, July 28th 2021. Camera: Kevin Schmitz

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Future correspondences is an art installation and performance about microorganisms. The space is covered with soil and has stations containing various bacteria cultures. Via a projection screen, the audience is literally part of the performance. The GoPro camera mounted on the body of the performer livestreams what is happening within the space. Appearing almost like in a video game, the audience witnesses a micro world – from the bacteria living on our bodies to the bacteria living within our bodies – without which human life wouldn’t be possible. The sound in the performance – or the continuous whispering voices we hear – are speeches from researchers, philosophers and scientists. In their talks, they make observations on the interconnectivity – or symbiosis – between human bodies and microorganisms. Tobias Rees, an anthropologist and philosopher,  reminds us that the human neurotransmitters in our brain are produced by the bacteria we have in our gut, and this bacteria population  depends on the food we eat. It means that our mind, “our most intimate self” so to say, actually depends on agriculture.

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Future_correspondences

Future correspondences is an art installation and performance about microorganisms. The space is covered with soil and has stations containing various bacteria cultures. Via…

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Mycelium growth @Synnika Space, Frankfurt am Main, 2021. 

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Sound Performance, Gallus Theater, May 2021, Frankfurt.

https://vimeo.com/718300247

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is a sound performance with Philipp Kehder about the cycles of water and our - human and nonhuman - relation to it. 

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Encounter between (non-) humans

The video „Encounter between (non-) humans“ is a short clip of the performance from the visual artist Joëlle Pidoux, here in collaboration with…

The video „Encounter between (non-) humans“ is a short clip of the performance from the visual artist Joëlle Pidoux, here in collaboration with the sound artist Philipp Kehder. The performance is a constellation of three elements: texts, sounds and a sculptural work. It has been created during corona time as the performers are inside the art space and the audience standing outside. The whole performance develops itself in a crescendo between beats, sounds creating from both performers and text reading. It lasts 1 hour minimum.

10.07.2020, Hafenplatz, Offenbach am Main, Germany

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“Life as surplus”, 2020.

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“Encounter between {non}-humans”, performance with Philipp Kedher, 2020.

“Encounter between {non}-humans” is a duo performance and a constellation of 3 elements: texts, sounds and an art installation. I alternate between text reading and interaction with the sculptural work with which I create also sounds thanks to a contact microphone on the finger tip meanwhile Philipp is producing a whole crescendo of noises, sounds, rythms and beats from his beat-computer and Synthesizer. 

Our duo is currently working on the next performance (planed in Berlin by Hosek Contemporary) on the theme of water. 

Check out the trailer on my Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/447618688

Photos credit: Brix Lange, Tobias Denninger, Robert Schittko

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“Growth”, 2020, (Part 2)

“Growth” (part 2) is the falling sculpture made of soil and mycelium. The brutal crash of the sculpture, or better said the shift from the ordinary to the extraordinary in order to represent the fragility in the relation between humans and its own environment. 

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“Growth”, 2020. (Part 1)

“Growth” is an organic sculpture (soil + mycelium) that was built in order to evolve with the time: the light curve makes it fall apart and the color of the soil changed due to the temperature of the room.

Photo credit: Robert Schittko

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Feeds telling passages of lives. Stories delivering moments of truth. I can’t distinguish the truth of the story. 

Maybe because all is happening so fast?

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A canyon. 

Like a canyon missing the flow of water passing along. Dry like the cracking of a ground; stuck like the small root deep in it, fighting to survive and to grow again one day, looking for reaching the sunlight again. 

When will come the flood again? 

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My last works *Tiefsee” (deep sea) exhibited in the “Tiefsee raum” (deep sea space) of our school reflect a possible near future where the lack of water cristallised the relation between humans and the environment. 

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My last works *Tiefsee” (deep sea) exhibited in the “Tiefsee raum” (deep sea space) of our school reflect a possible near future where the lack of water cristallised the relation between humans and the environment. 

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“Footprint” is a serie of works in process. Extractivism is a recurrent theme and inspiration in my work. Humans still consider nature as a resource, a capital. Installing a divot with a rubber boot on a tar ground roof top with a view on the new buildings and a crane finds meaning for me. Above all when the collected soil comes actually from 5 jeopardized grounds between Offenbach and Frankfurt. Nature under control, disappearing nature: two contradictions of a reality still valid.