Agenda » residency Pali Meursault
21/01/2010 - 31/01/2010
Q-O2 werkplaats
Washuisstraat 28, 1000 Brussel, tel. 02 245 48 24
Composing in, about and with a city, with several rules in mind but also some room to cheat: with his residency in Brussels, it is not Pali Meursault’s intention to undertake a strict topographic (or topophonic) survey nor to appeal to the subjective evocation of a (sonic) landscape. It is probably unlikely that we can fathom the true nature of a place or discover its essence. On the other hand microscopic but audible perceptible events are happening everywhere and all the time. So, it will be more about training the hearing, not in the sense of achieving its know-how but rather as some kind of openness to the events, or porosity to our environment. Systematic and/or randomly taken walks become his method to activate this hearing. Walks composed on the city map, restraining movements, complicating the landscape and confronting him with the city’s daily sounds, with the body while in the city.
Pali Meursault
During the past ten years, Pali Meursault has been travelling far and wide with microphones. He has been from the glaciers of the Alps, to the Amazon forest and the surroundings of a steel plant, all the while creating performances, installations, radio theatre and records. His works are under release by And/Oar and Entr'acte, and he also has his own label, Universinternational. Pali Meursulat is a regular collaborator of an artists’ collective called Ici-Même in Grenoble. He also writes articles for magazines such as Esse and Revue&Corrigée.
http://www.palimeursault.net