Dragos Olea, active member of the APPARATUS 22 collective beside Erika Oléa and Maria Farcas, goes to the Topographie de l’Ar arts pace in Paris on March 15th 2019. During his short visit, he meets the founders of SUZANNE for the first time while they rehearse their new creation “MERCURES“, programmed in the collective exhibition “MAPPING AT LAST”. This is the occasion for Dragos to share his first impressions about SUZANNE in a short text published on @elainealain instagram.

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“When we arrived to the backside of the large Espace Topographie de l’Art in Marais, the 5 members of @groupesuzanne were rehearsing for a performance.
There was palpable sense of electricity in the room.
Quite electric was also our short dialogue. Everything is fresh and ever-changing for the young collective initiated in October 2017, but one could feel the determination of a clairvoyant; Inspired by the small gestures that accompany us every day they are IN to test some raw ideas about the body in an approach cross-pollinated by the various cultural, educational, professional background of the members. Maybe not evident yet in the work, they are also testing ways of collaboration in a fluid large group and modes of surpassing the practical difficulties of collective work in an art system geared towards the individual.
Look them up”

Text from Dragos Olea for Elaine Alain 

On March 15th 2019, SUZANNE presented for the first time her new performance MERCURES for the launching of the art catalog “MAPPING AT LAST – The Plausible Island” at Topographie de l’Art in Paris.
Invited by Léo Marin, curator, SUZANNE is for the very first time part of a collective exhibition alongside many visual artists. The curator’s wish was to show living forms of art through dance inside a contemporary art exhibition and space.
Presented as a 20min work-in-progress performance, the new creation “MERCURES” is a promise SUZANNE gives to herself as a tool to develop and experiment new frames and scales.

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On the occasion of the release of his new single “Cowards“, French electro pop singer TAUR has called on SUZANNE to stage and embody what he himself calls “relational paralysis”. The video clip with the “queer embraces” is noticed by the magazine TÊTU which devotes an article to it !

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SUZANNE’s first participation at Nuit Blanche Paris with her performance “STATU” is the fruit of a press article in the online newspaper Le Parisien showing a list of marquable artworks for the event.

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For the 17th edition of Nuit Blanche Paris curated by Gaël Charbau; Romain Salomon, Web&Print director of the newspaper A Nous Paris, interviews SUZANNE about “STATU” the performance part of the event at La Cité Internationale des Arts. This unmissable place and long time partner of Nuit Blanche is part of the Constellation program and assures SUZANNE an important visibility for her first participation in Nuit Blanche Paris.

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“The time it takes to Earth to rotate on itself, let’s ask ourselves what is happening “in between”, on the place of change, on this movement which passes through us to change our daily lives, our bodies, our lives” : this is the theme of TRANSFORMES festival, initiated by the promotion of the professional Master “Métiers de la production théâtrale” at La Sorbonne Nouvelle. SUZANNE is then noticed by the fifteen students and is scheduled for the festival whose godmother is Rébacca Chaillon. SUZANNE gives herself a BIG challenge : to perform “STATU” 24 hours non-stop! 

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