David Noir is a code breaker, a kind of hacker whose victims and beneficiaries are all at the same time. His target: our operating system.
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Factorial Black

David Noir is a code breaker, a kind of hacker whose victims and beneficiaries are us. His target: our operating system and the data that 40,000 years of articulated language have inscribed in our hidden memories. 40,000 years is not a small amount. The information stored in superimposed layers has formed a varnish of considerable thickness, whose brilliance, extraordinary resistance and total impermeability can sometimes surprise everyone, allowing man to feel protected from the main known threats, except perhaps that of asphyxiation or worse, despair. Given this affection we have for our beloved clichés, the code that protects them is consequently extremely sophisticated, complex and dizzyingly astronomical.

Also, to break it, David Noir has been building for several years a humbly extravagant and voluntarily exhaustive device, which one could approach by the term of Factorial Black and mathematicians write "Black! This Factorial Black combines a large number of words, phrases, aphorisms, photos, videos, songs, piano and electric guitar improvisations, soundtracks, inflatable dolls, basins and other objects whose arrangement changes according to the angles of attack, in a systematic and deceptively languid rotation. For SCRAPThe target is the feminine, or what is left of it, an eternal mity, after the loose sedimentation of Edith Piaf, excision, the sanitary tampon, the inflatable doll, Louise Bourgeois' spider-mother, the Prix Fémina and the metro mouth under Marilyn's skirt, among others. "Noir! turns, gradually cracking the shackles to better turn them inside out, exposing the inner sides of thought to the open air. Genuine jubilation! A sort of garage opera, in the noble sense of the word garage, of those fabulous garages of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Larry Page or Sergei Brin, or Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, well almost, because for Jimmy it is in the family living room and not in the garage that the miracle of Led Zeppelin began.

Notice to amateurs! David Noir is creating something important, like a cultural antimatter that would have the grace to produce no new paterne (2)This would leave us absolutely free to look at the world, untouched and raw, as the beginning of another story.

David Noir and the Générateur de Gentilly met in 2011. After La Toison Dort in 2012 and Les Parques d'attraction in 2013, two performances that were already very enjoyable, this season he offers us Scrap étape 1, le féminin dans tous ses états. On 31 May, as part of Frasq, an annual meeting dedicated to performance art and initiated by the Générateur, he will present "DÉFENSE DU MASQUE HULIN" at the Galerie Nivet-Carzon 2, rue Geoffroy l'Angevin-75004 PARIS. Follow him on his website https://davidnoir.fr and on the social networks Twitter @DAVNOIR, and Facebook DavidNoirProductions. But above all, take part in his performances. He will make you fall in love with him!

For Scrap, David Noir (direction, texts, sound mixing, video, interpretation) is accompanied by Christophe Imbs (live improvised music creation), Guillaume Junot (live video creation, sound management) and Jérôme Allart (light creation, light management).

See also https://www.legenerateur.com and http://www.frasq.com

(1) Photo credit D. Noir and K. Lhémon. Graphic design B. Brendgen.

(2) feminine name for the image of God the Father, whose meaning disappeared in the 14th century and which suddenly became useful again.

Marie-Gabrielle Duc

Article online on Marie-Gabrielle Duc's blog Sketches of meetings

David Noir

David Noir, performer, actor, author, director, singer, visual artist, video maker, sound designer, teacher... carries his polymorphous nudity and his costumed childhood under the eyes and ears of anyone who wants to see and hear.

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