Nine And A Half Weeks



Elaine Levy Project is pleased to announce Nine and a Half Weeks, a series of weekly projects that will start on October 31st, 2009 and take place till the end of January 2010.

During almost three months, from November till January, Elaine Levy Project is taking a break and leaving space to Nine And A Half Weeks, a test project on the edge of the usual gallery functioning.

The dull context of the art market encouraged us to propose a playful and free reinterpretation of the gallery space. Thus Nine and a Half Weeks will propose little experimental forms out of the commercial constraints and which will address a wider public than usual.

Most of the projects will be open construction sites and thought as such, or at least they will offer a range of devices to activate the space. The audience will be invited according to constantly renewed modalities, and the artists will invest the workspace as they want.

Nine and has Half Weeks is thought to be a place not only dedicated to the spectator, but also as a work and research space...

Finally the title is a funny reference, first of all to the duration of this programming, but is besides an invitation for new improvised experiments in our small kitchen, by means of everyday cheap objects.

a project hosted by Elaine Lévy & Florent Delval

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mardi 26 janvier 2010

NINE AND A HALF WEEKS' FINISSAGE

Step 2 : Let's suck paintvrushes !



Nine and a Half Weeks' finissage

performed by
Caroline Champion





Did you ever try to suck a paintbrush ?


In terms of taste,
using paintbrush to eat some food preparations
(tomato cream, liquid cheese, marmelade, melted chocolate) can be extremely interesting :

Paintbrush's hair absorbs it, depending on the texture, and releases slowly flavors in the whole mouth,
meanwhile it strokes tongue, palate, etc...

Things taste different !



( You'll never look at your painbrush in the same way )

SCRAPS SCENOGRAPHY : NINE AND A HALF WEEKS' FINISSAGE



performed by

Caroline Champion



Step 1 : To come full circle - Still life installation.


Still life : Scraps scenography



I met Elaine at Slick in october, just before the begining of Nine and a Half Weeks.

I made a performance called « ExpérimenTable » with her, while she was telling me about the future project.


Then, we realised that actually the performance was something like Nine and a Half preamble...




Now, everything is done.

Nine and a half weeks after, what remains from the performance is only a table and

some dried vegetables we didn't eat that day.

Scraps. Still life.



To performe Nine and a Half Weeks' finissage : to come full circle.



dimanche 24 janvier 2010

ENDING CREDITS

Have participated at 9 ½ WEEKS :

Felicia Atkinson

Steven Baelen

Constance Barrère Dangleterre

Maya Boquet

Véronique Boudier

Lucille Calmel

Grégory Castéra

Caroline Champion

Jonas Chéreau
Ondine Cloez

Gilles Collard

Jean-Philippe Convert

John Cornu

Maeva Cunci

Fabien Defendini

Scali Delpeyrat
Florent Delval

Sonia Dermience

Dialogist-Kantor

Sebastian Dicenaire
Caroline Duris

Thibaut Espiau

Sarah Fauguet

Nicolas Fourgeaud

Barbara Fourneret

Madeleine Fournier

Jean-Baptiste Ganne

Dominique Gilliot

Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin

Yves Grenet

Alexandra Guillot

Tal Hadad

Élodie Huet

Maja Jantar

Delphine Jonas

Ermias Kifleysus

Emi Kodama

Paul Labrecque

Emmanuel Lambion

Karl Larsson

Stéphanie Lefebvre

M-A Leledy

David Le Simple

Jonathan Lévy

Lenka Luptakova

Charles Mazé

Le moine de la non existence de la pensée

Joris Van de Moortel

Grégoire Motte

Egle Obcarskaite

Benoît Police

Emilie Pischedda

Caroline Pradal

Michiel Reyneart

Niklaus Ruëgg

Kurt Ryslavi

Eléonore Saintagnan

Aurélie Salavert

Bastiaan Schevers

Michael Schmid

Sarah Siré

Marten Spangberg
Elena Sorokina

Nina Souquet

Valentin Souquet
Coralie Stalberg

Betty Tchomonga
Bram Van Damme
Vincent + Feria
Natalie Yalon
Tracee Westmoreland
McCloud Zicmuse