Passages made its residency space available for a one-week stay, allowing Fabienne Audéoud to work on her latest modular synthesizer recording project.
Fabienne Audéoud is currently developing a minimalist opera that explores language in its multiple forms — physical, intimate, emotional, musical, and literal.
Conceived without dramatic or musical resolution, this opera unfolds through a singing character, an almost empty space, costumes without performers, and a series of SE TAIRE posters.
The music, composed on a modular synthesizer, forms a dense and shifting sonic mass, without melody or identifiable structure, enveloping the space in a continuous vibration. This choice is inscribed in a long history of exchanges between communication technologies (telegraph, telephone, radio…) and electronic instruments (theremin, ondes Martenot, synthesizers…), in which women have played a crucial role. From Johanna Magdalena Beyer to Laurie Anderson, through Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Pauline Oliveros, and Suzanne Ciani, this lineage runs through the project, lending it historical depth and contemporary resonance.
Her body of work includes series of paintings, videos, a perfume collection, a sweater shop, and musical performances, and revolves around notions of power relations, particularly through language, gender, and the political significance of representation.
Her work is regularly shown in independent spaces as well as international institutions.
Fabienne Audéoud describes her practice as a search for what a piece does to those who encounter it, and to the broader context in which it operates — how it performs and what is being played out, both in terms of its formal specificities and its cultural, sociological, or political impact.
Rather than illustrating a critical stance or demonstrating knowledge, she seeks to create a space in which she can intervene, where action is possible, guided by what Robert Garnett describes as a “logic of humor, of disturbed and disturbing emotions, rather than ironic commentary.”
Vidéo du projet : https://youtu.be/aHIy3MOmDnQ?si=a5vuiPWypIeRuxO4
Web : https://www.fabienneaudeoud.com//
