DORIS (work-in-progress)

Flavia Papadaniel & Diane Dormet CH
  • 19h30
  • 18h
Informations
  • Duration 50'
  • From age 14
  • Extra Time Plus
  • In French and English

Salle Communale
Rue des Marchandises 4
Nyon

This proposal is part of the Weaving Spaces of Resistance route.

  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility

In 1950s America, Doris, a housewife, was filmed in her living room alongside interdisciplinary researcher Gregory Bateson as part of a study on human interaction. That brief, 18-second recording would go on to generate an extensive body of scientific literature. In countless analyses, Doris’s gestures and behaviour were dissected with precision, filtered through the cultural and sexist biases of the time, whose echoes still reverberate today. Using this footage, known as The Cigarette Scene, as their starting point, Flavia Papadaniel and Diane Dormet create DORIS: a critical reinterpretation of social representations, whether in scientific discourse, always shaped by those who produce it, or in everyday perception. Through choreography, sound and repetition, the two artists explore gesture, role-swapping, mirrored figures and shifts in voice and rhythm to expose the underlying power dynamics at play. With humour and a touch of irreverence, DORIS goes further still, challenging our own perceptions. How do we reduce the complexity of human behaviour to codified attitudes we think we understand? And how can we begin to unpick our own gaze, to recognise the biases shaping our judgement?

  • @Laura Spozio

performance, artistic conception, production Flavia Papadaniel performance, artistic collaboration, production Diane Dormet artistic collaboration Laura Spozio and Yann Hermenjat sound creation Nounoute coproduction far° Nyon & Südpol Lucerne, as part of the Extra Time Plus programme in collaboration with LAC Lugano & FIT Lugano additional support to the Extra Time Plus programme Landis & Gyr Foundation, Leenaards Foundation support for the creation Loterie romande, SIS Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung welcomings in residencies far° Nyon, Südpol Lucerne, Usine à Gaz Nyon acknowledgements Les compagnies vaudoises, Elodie Brunner & Yvane Chapuis / département recherche de la Manufacture – Haute École des arts de la scène, La Grange – UNIL, Robin Dupuis, Ian Lecoultre, Philippe Graf, Justine Scheidegger, Nina Negri, Judith Goudal, Isabelle Vesseron, the teams of the far° and the Südpol

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