The Puppentheater Halle is a group of eight puppeteers based in Halle, a city in the former East Germany known for its puppet theater. He wrote the texts for Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre (2013), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), This is how you will disappear (2010), Jerk (2008), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Une belle enfant blonde (2005), and I Apologize (2004). He is also a contributing editor of Artforum and the editor of the American publishing imprint Little House on the Bowery. He has published nine novels, most recently The Marbled Swarm. Regarded as a master of transgressive literature, he is known for his minute observations of human relations and obsessions. “Every book by Cooper is seemingly a matter of life and death, a tightrope act performed without a safety net.” - The Guardianĭennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, and critic based in Paris and Los Angeles. She works regularly with the writers Dennis Cooper and Catherine Robbe-Grillet, the musicians Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley of drone metal band Sunn O))), and actor Jonathan Capdevielle. She then worked with dancers, developing her choreographic practice at the studios of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Rosas. Her background is varied and diverse: she was trained as a musician, earned a degree in philosophy, and went on to the foremost school for puppetry, Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. Gisèle Vienne is an artist, director, and choreographer based in Paris. Gisèle Vienne, The Ventriloquists Convention Photo: Estelle Hanania About the Artists The piece draws from the annual convention at Kentucky’s Vent Haven Museum, the world’s only museum of ventriloquists’ dummies, where puppets that are no longer employed-often due to the death of their owner-are kept and displayed. They are joined for this project by one of the premiere German puppet-theater companies, Puppentheater Halle. Both familiar and alien, their dark experiments in embodied and disembodied states open us up to examining our multilayered psyche. The nine actors, the ventriloquists they play, and their dummies each maintain distinct voices and identities, making for a dizzying and uncanny world that exerts a strange pull on us.ĭirector/choreographer Gisèle Vienne and author Dennis Cooper, collaborators for more than 10 years, track the complex relationship between body and voice. A casual conversation quickly becomes an alarming psychological maze where madness and familiarity coexist. “She takes us on a journey into an emotional maze blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.”Īt an annual gathering of ventriloquists, nine delegates and their dummies share their passions and expose their private challenges. Group picture from Vent Haven Convention 2014 Photo: Estelle Hanania
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