Claire Ingrid Cottanceau (FR): The intermediate places – fiction

Cottanceau’s aim is to set the spectator in motion. His/her movement IS the performance. His/her movement creates fiction: his/her own history facing the pre-history of the “two first” who have paved the way. Whilst moving, the spectator faces games with textures or fragments like palimpsests of places preserved by the ice – a human being’s fragility facing the space.

Cottanceau is proposing a sensitive journey. It takes time: the time to walk from one point to another. This duration becomes ACTION. The installation is not the end point, the result of the work. Our pre-history is changing along with the present and along with the environment – so Cottanceau will make the different locations “thicker”, day after day with micro-interventions, micro-actions: shootings, notes… made in real time during the festival for each location of the installation.

Claire Ingrid Cottanceau creates installations and produces performances “inside” the installations. Her artistic writing is a mixture of real sets, notes, video, photography and sound. Her researches concern the question of territories (confrontations between natural spaces and spaces called “natural” but developed/adjusted by and for the human being) and the influence of those territories on human behaviour. Her work aims to reveal the spaces she works on (gallery, botanical garden, island, etc.) and to investigate the position of the human being there. Her approach is “friction” writing. It is a kind of comparison of two territories or locations. In the end, the identity of each territory is revealed through this confrontation.