expo zéro

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). 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 HubPerforma 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.
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 Costinaș, deufert&plischke, Nikolaus Hirsch, Sung Hwan Kim, Boyan Manchev, Valda Setterfield, Sigal Zouk Harder
expo zéro in Metropolis M, interview of CosminCostinaș

November 7th & 8th, 2009 - Flying Circus Project, Singapour (SI) - www.theatreworks.org.sg
expo 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).
some thoughts on expo zéro Singapore

October 3rd & 4th, 2009 - Le LiFE, St Nazaire (FR) - www.lelife.org
expo zéro
with: Boris Charmatz (dancer and choreographer), Laurent Chétouane (theater director and choreographer), Cosmin Costinaş (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).