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Mobil'Homme. An accident.
18 May - 20 May 2019
Included in David Noir's performances is the prospect of a road trip. With Mobil'HommeIt's probably going to be a couple breaking up, a car door smashed in, two dogs and an accident. Slow motion, fast motion, maybe even backwards.
When performer David Noir - an artist associated with the Generator since 2016 - dives into the meanders, it is accompanied by a buoy of humour. In other words, his performances stir up dark subjects such as death, more or less childish and/or consensual sexuality, but with a beneficial self-mockery. That touch of absurdity that transforms repulsion into laughter. Actor, performer, director... Since 1986, David Noir has been sculpting language, characters, images and sounds. And at the crossroads of fright and kitsch, his performance Mobil'Homme (2019) promises some teeth grinding and nervous giggling. The pitch? To the tune ofAn accident (1976), by Michel Sardou, it will be about a broken couple and a car door. Play performed by Marie Verge, Adrien Solis and David Noir, Mobil'Homme will also feature a sound composition by Christophe Imbs. As for the two dogs, Deus and Jaya, they will participate in their own way in this joyful emotional stampede.
Mobil'Homme by David Noir: the tasty meeting of kitsch and punk
For those who are not familiar with Michel Sardou's song, just imagine the singer poignantly recounting, in the first person, a car accident. Following a sentimental break-up, perhaps. Voice accelerated; voice slowed down... The bloody story becomes comical. Perhaps there is a threshold beyond which all tragedy falls into absurdity. If such a threshold exists, then David Noir has been exploring its contours for the past thirty years. For Mobil'HommeA couple (man/woman) is chained to the upright piano in their living room, to better wait for the moment of the crash. The rupture. Flesh to accident, the couple makes an inventory of their own pieces. When David Noir is performing, with a couple exploded in flight, he could say like Jean-Luc Godard: "Montage, mon beau souci". Far from the invisible connection, the relational seams appear, with their crumpled sheet metal look.
A crazy performance (but with door), to be found in bulk at the Generator.
Grafting together performance, sounds, videos, songs by Michel Sardou and Sylvie Vartan, Mobil'Homme bursts the narrative. And as with car accidents, with their before, during and after that are impossible to confuse, there is a discrepancy that floats. "Why don't you make yourself at home, make yourself at home. "The polite language of social conventions is going the wrong way on the highway of morality. It's bound to get classy at some point. In Michel Sardou's song, escaping from the fog for one sentence, the protagonist says lucidly: "I hope I haven't killed anyone". Rather than rationalizing what is not rational, Mobil'Homme transcribes something of the shock. In a swing between a sense of responsibility and a punk fascination with the great anything. And the humming of the French variety, in the way Turn the carousel around!at the Crash...David Cronenberg style, Mobil'Homme will make its debut at the Generator.
