expo zéro is an exhibition project without any works: no photographs, no sculptures, no installations or videos. Zero things, not one stable object. But artists, areas occupied by the gestures, projects, bodies, stories, dances which everyone will choose to imagine. From this principle, ten personalities (artists, architects, theorists...) will be invited in residence to a place (Le Garage/Rennes, Le LiFE/Saint Nazaire, TheatreWorks/Singapour, BAK/Utrecht, Performa Hub/New York). They will afterwards present to the visitors their own visions, subjective and utopian, of what a "dancing museum" could be. A kind of "think tank" with moving objectives, expo zéro wishes to invite art in its most volatile manifestations. Through analysis, description, performance, movements and ideas which each "guide-artist" will develop with the audience, the geography, will be drawn of this expanding territory.
November 4th, 5th & 6th, 2011 - Performa Hub, Performa 11, New York (USA) - 11.performa-arts.org
expo zéro with: Boris Charmatz, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Eleanor Bauer, Heman Chong, Jim Fletcher, Lenio Kaklea, Jan Liesegang, Valda Setterfield, Marcus Steinweg, Fadi Toufiq.
See: expo zéro by Claire Bishop in the Brooklyn Rail
April 16th & 17th, 2010 - BAK basis voor actuele kunst - Festival Springdance (coproduction), Utrecht (NL)
expo zéro with: Boris Charmatz, Heman Chong, Cosmin Costinas, deufert&plischke, Nikolaus Hirsch, Sung Hwan Kim, Boyan Manchev, Valda Setterfield, Sigal Zouk Harderexpo zéro in Metropolis M, interview of CosminCostina?
November 7th & 8th, 2009 - Flying Circus Project, Singapour (SI) - www.theatreworks.org.sgexpo zéro with:Boris Charmatz, François Chaignaud, Padmini Chettur, Mette Ingvartsen, Donna Miranda, Joavien Ng (dancers and choreographers), Yves-Noël Genod (actor and theater director), Heman Chong (artist), FARM (architects), Ong Keng Sen (curator, theater director).
See some thoughts on expo zéro Singapore
October 3rd & 4th, 2009 - Le LiFE, St Nazaire (FR)
expo zéro with: Boris Charmatz (dancer and choreographer), Laurent Chétouane (theater director and choreographer), Cosmin Costina (author and curator), Raphaëlle Delaunay (dancer and choreographer), Yves-Noël Genod (actor and theater director), Yves Godin (light creator), Janez Janša (artist and author), Michael Riedel (artist), Gerald Siegmund (dance theorist).
September 19th & 20th, 2009 - Le Garage, Rennes (FR)
performances for schools September 18th & 21st, 2009
expo zéro with: Boris Charmatz, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Vincent Dunoyer, Anne Juren, Faustin Linyekula (dancers and choreographers), Tim Etchells and Janez Janša (artists, writers), Nikolaus Hirsch (architect), Georg Schöllhammer (author and curator), Sylvie Mokhtari in partnership with Nathalie Boulouch (members of les Archives de la Critique d'Art).