Dictée -2025
Dictée” is caught in a dramaturgy punctuated by three grammatical exercises on a set sentence. Influenced by a book by Johanna Drucker, “diagrammatic writing” on the explanation of the subtext to the layout and spacings of texts on the page, I was exploring the potential effects of changing dynamics or annotation within an internal monologue.
By adding a capital letter or a bold segment, how does the body react to a somatic re-writing.
And by having a reduced access to self actualisation through language, where do we start creating inventive grammars and maybe the escape to the delay between the experience and the retelling, is by extending the gaps between letters, exploding as a form of embodiment.
Credits
Concept / choreography- Hayden Bouvet
Collaborator / performer - Marusha Jakopic
Sound - Philip Przybyło
Advisors - Annick Kleizen, Ahmed El Gendy
Light design - Hayden bouvet, Katinka Marac
“ I think i mispronounced the cause
cause think the i, i mispronounced
cause think ( the i ) i mis/pronounced
the cause i i mispronounced / think
the cause - i i - 1. mispronounced 2. think mispronounced the think cause ii
I cause the I
he cause think”
Etude for the other wandering of the frame - 2024
Disremembering, like dismembering, like a clear cut.
the word forgetting in the other hand, is walking further than your life, along half a curve, almost domestic.
One foot after another. The mutual drift of the shadow of their shadows.
And the horizon
And you becoming the least personal way to address you. Nothing but vast and yet hitting the corners of speech in the middle of the day.
The limits before nothingness are abrupt.
A flash of light.
Inhaling.
Forgetting as a sore muscle. but a muscle after all.
Still red from the losses.
An erosion.
Either from the heart or from the head.
Unconfirmed.
Etude for the other wandering off the frame uses poetics and fragmentations to develop new methodologies against memory through the erosion of meaning and context within an intimate discourse and the progressive obsolescence of referential pronouns as a way of tracing our own disappearance.
Credits
Choreographer - Hayden Bouvet
Performers - Asya Deinekina, Hayden Bouvet
Sound work - Philip Przybylo
Video recording - Gergely Ofner
Costume design - Hayden Bouvet
Artistic Advisors - Noha Ramadan, Marcio Kerber Canabarro
“ i will forget when the sentences became long.
i will forget when the narrative of you started to feel off
i will forget when thinking of you as a narrative felt like betraying your memory
I will forget when I read the text out loud and someone told me “it’s just break up poetry”.
i will forget you. you as the compact object to put in relation to the heart. the dynamic diagonal. I will forget when you, became anything but you. I will forget when you became impersonal. when you became she. when i couldn’t understand what she was doing here. I will forget when she took away all the relational and the intimacy of the text. i will forget when all the context disappeared.. I will forget when i was so imprecise that I stopped being singular or even stopped being all together.I will forget when i became he. I will forget when i could no longer be referred. I will forget how he made me obsolete to any past. I will forget wishing it was more than this. I will forget that he will forget that i will forget i. I will forget that he will forget that he had forgotten me before. I will forget that he will forget. He forgot. And the light went out.”