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19BIS. Le jardin à frôler

published at 18/10/2017
"Le jardin à frôler", Festival des Jardins 2013 - © E. Sander
Designed by a multidisciplinary team, Le Jardin à frôler beckons visitors to wander through an interactive trail flanked by creeping plants that are extensions of their natural environment. Visitors are immersed in an experience in this garden where they can perceive the physical sensations of touch as they pass through.
Le Jardin à frôler looks like a tree-sculpture where sounds and plants are in dialogue. The sound matter is revealed, like a sound field, when the visitor strays within reach. The plant matter, chosen for its tactile nature, creates a coherent visual ensemble that connects what can be touched with what can be heard. 

Designers

aKousthéa -Alexandre LEVY, composer and Sophie LECOMTE, visual artist-
FRANCE
 
aKousthéa is a musical creation company. To each creation by the company corresponds an original musical creation, composed specifically for the project.
Founded by Alexandre Lévy, the company reflects the artist’s research and his desire to open up the musical language to creations from other artistic disciplines.
For several years aKousthéa has been creating interactive exhibits that blend visual arts, dance, music and digital art. The public is invited to share a sensitive and enjoyable experience around simple themes that have nevertheless been developed with erudition: garden and movement, touch sensations, secluded trails, etc.
These projects are also a way of filling heritage sites, extraordinary gardens and other places with life once again, and of bringing visitors from all walks of life back to explore them in a new light.
They are also the main focus of events organised for specific groups such as school children, toddlers and people who cannot easily access such activities. Fully fledged media, the company’s installations are designed as links to be forged between contemporary creation, a wider section of society and places to be taken over.
Since it was founded, aKousthéa has received widespread support from the French Ministry of Culture, CNC, Beaumarchais Foundation, Seine-et-Marne County Council, SACD and SACEM amongst others.
 

Alexandre Lévy, a composer, studied at the CNSM in Paris where he won four first prizes. He worked there with Édith Lejet and Michèle Reverdy. He studied composition and electroacoustic music with Michel Zbar at the Boulogne conservatory. He has composed mixed works, vocal, instrumental and stage scores including several operas. His works are performed at such musical events as the Multiphonies concert of the Musical Research Group (GRM), Biennale Musiques en scène de GRAME, Rencontres Internationales de musique contemporaine de Cergy, Festival de Musique Contemporaine d’Enghien, Académie Ravel de Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Concours International de Mélodie de Toulouse. He won the grant from the Beaumarchais Foundation for his chamber opera “L” and has received several commissions from the French State. He writes incidental music and sound installations together with visual artists and theatre companies for cross-cutting projects.

A visual artist, Sophie Lecomte graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Henri Cueco studio) and the Faculté d’Arts plastiques (Paris I). Through her work she seeks to compose poetics of the passing time and weaves a polymorphous world from sculpture, installations, videos, drawings and watercolours. With gentleness and cruelty, she crafts poetics of hybridisation – aimed at reaching out to a forgotten, diluted memory. Little by little she writes a personal natural history where the kingdoms intermingle and where forms metamorphose and call into question the perpetual movement of existence – the invisible effort of time and of disappearance. For six years, Sophie Lecomte has been working in partnership with Alexandre Levy on creating videos and sound installations. She has exhibited at such museums as the Museu do traje (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil), Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art (Macedonia) and Musée de Fontenay le Comte … Her work has been acquired by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris) and Musée Barrois (Bar le Duc).

THE GARDEN'S PLANTS

Briza mourette
Carex pendula
Humulus lupulus
Luzula nivea
Phylitis scolopendrium
Phyllostachys aurea

GARDEN CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM

Ministère de la Culture DRAC Île de France
GRAME (Centre national de création musicale)
Ville de La Courneuve
Association CIDMA
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