ARCHIVES 2013 / Éloge du désordre et de la maîtrise

At the origin of this three-part journey, the invitation tossed out by Stanislas Nordey: a desire, which joined that of Hortense Archambault and Vincent Baudniller, to open, in this 67th Festival d'Avignon, a space that Michelle Kokosowski could freely invest. A salute, then, addressed to a woman who has accompanied them in the shadow for years and, through her, praise to all those, writers, artists and thinkers, whom she designated as masters and for whom she became the relay, the transmitter, with stage artists, like Stanislas Nordey. Under the title Praise of Disorder and Mastery, which describes both the singular mechanism, the process and the issues, it is through dialogue, the foundation of any study, any learning process, that Michelle Kokosowski, in the company of Stanislas Nordey and Anatoli Vassiliev, imagined replying to this invitation. A constellation of words, images and music whose organization is left to chance, to the here and now of the event, and to which, via diverse tracks, the absent will also be summoned.

Myriam Bloedé