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* composition made of myths and salient elements of his environment, various materials such as hijacking everyday situations, animal tracking, mistranslations from GAFA, reading about decolonisation, totemism, feminism, some radio archives & french humor...
** baptiste morizot
MEDUSEN
version hyperlokal 2020
Puzzle piece for a mini-city, four groups of audience, three performers, several objects, with optional live band, video and audio sampler. Libretto homemade
[more infos >here<]
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Medusen is a multi-perspective performance, which includes a video-walk, audio-walk, treasure-hunt, a guided city tour, a concert and an installation.
Each listener-viewer can select different character paths to unravel a case with another point of view.
Like investigators, the audience discovers the character’s mind, walking between old hegemonic patterns and dopamine.
As a navigator who interprets the sky through constellations to move forward through waters. Medusen activates the imagination of the audience to face their own reality
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Inspired by the story of the super-prophet Jonah (old testament), Baleen focuses on the concept of “loop/karma/cycle-recycle”, from the simple pulse to the complex feedback, translated on stage in hijacked everyday-objects (like turntable, carousel, smoothie machine, etc...).
This work is also a fascination for the anthropomorphic sounds (a saxophone or a balloon can sound like animals or fish such a whale).
A point of view from the book Jonah can rejoin us today, it is this death drive tendency : the secret wish, to the destruction of the city/humanity. Looking at the current impact of humans amongst the environment, we create an ecological tale where plastic bags are seen as creative instruments, not as a secret massive destructive weapon.
F A U N O G R A P H E S
Commissions from different ensembles such ensemble Intercontemporain,
les Métaboles, United instrument of Luxembourg, Musicatreize-Marseille,
Avanti, Batida & Leminiscate amongst others.
On colonisation
On volcano
FASTNACHT
performance with Raphaël Languillat
Adrian Galeazzi + Kay Zhang + Nuriia Khasenova
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WITH_JÖRG
MONO // MOTOR MUTTER // DER PILZ IM PATENT
assistant to the Zurich composer and performer and director Jörg Köppl
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COLONIAL WASHING I
Bernadette Köbele Regie
@ KaserneBasel
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EINE VERSION DER GESCHICHTE
Schauspielerhaus Zurich Marco Milling Regie
Schauspielhaus Zurich, Deutschtheater Berlin
IN VIVO
Alessandro Sciarroni Regie
104 PARISMANIFEST
REMERCIEMENTS
BERNADETTE KÖBELE DIRECTOR
CIMON FINIX COMPOSER_PERFORMER
KAYJU ZHANG MUSICIAN
LEANDRO GIANINI AUDIO-ENGINEER
NURIYA KHASENOVA MUSICIAN
DALIUS SINGER AUDIOCODER
MARIANA VIEIRA STAGE-COSTUME DESIGNER
MUM AND DAD MAIN SPONSOR
JORG KÖPPL COMPOSER-PERFORMER
COLIN LUSINCHI VISUAL ARTIST
RAPHAEL LANGUILLAT COMPOSER_VISUAL
ADRIAN GALEAZZI NEW TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNER
BAPTISTE MORIZOT PHILOSOPHER
ERIC LARRIEUX ENGINEER
FRANCESCA SPROCCATI PERFORMER
FLORENT CARRAS COMPOSER
ISANDRO OJEDA-GARCIA COMPOSER
REUBEN JELLEYMAN COMPOSER
LARA STANIC COMPOSER PERFORMER
HYPERLOKAL VENUE
VINCIANE DESPRET PHILOSOPHER
CHARLES QUEVILLON COMPOSER PERFORMER
BRUNO LATOUR PHILOSOPHER
MALCOM FERDINAND PHILOSOPHER
ISABEL MUNDRY COMPOSER
JEAN YVES LELOUP PHILOSOPHER
EVA SULAI ACCORDEONIST
INVERSPACE ENSEMBLE
KOLLEKTIV INTERNATIONAL TOTEM ASSOCIATION
2021 © leocollin
Léo Collin ( الجزائر/France /Switzerland) is a son of a doctor and an astrologist. It might be the reason why he repeats in his work an action similar to a vaccine*, composed with invocations : a little dose of poison which makes you healthy and an interpretation of a constellation of the possibles.
Made within the kollektiv international totem, his pieces are thought as potential bifurcation for empowerment him-self and his audience/performers.
Let’s change the dominant system of value, repair the breaks and work on love, let’s write fictions who cares the (damaged) relations with the others (species)... with the use of sound and stage compositions, where poetry operates with new technologies, combined with the sounds of acoustic, electronic and new lutherie.
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Made within the kollektiv international totem, his pieces are thought as potential bifurcation for empowerment him-self and his audience/performers.
Let’s change the dominant system of value, repair the breaks and work on love, let’s write fictions who cares the (damaged) relations with the others (species)... with the use of sound and stage compositions, where poetry operates with new technologies, combined with the sounds of acoustic, electronic and new lutherie.
Léo Collin trained in music composition in Geneva, Freiburg & Zurich, piano in Lyon and Art Applied in Marseille & Besançon.
Now, his practice is made of music compositions, immersive theater pieces and performances.
Results were played at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Deutsch theater Berlin, Gessnerallee Zurich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kasern Basel, Centre 104 Paris & Scène Nationale Perpignan by amongst other, ensemble Intercontemporain, les Métaboles, Musicatreize.
He performed at the Centre National de la Danse Pantin, Comédie Geneva, Opera House Freiburg in Breisgau with choreographers Sebastian Matthias, Alessandro Sciarroni, Jeremy Wade and composer Michael Jarrell. He lives and work in Zürich.
. Now, his practice is made of music compositions, immersive theater pieces and performances.
Results were played at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Deutsch theater Berlin, Gessnerallee Zurich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kasern Basel, Centre 104 Paris & Scène Nationale Perpignan by amongst other, ensemble Intercontemporain, les Métaboles, Musicatreize.
He performed at the Centre National de la Danse Pantin, Comédie Geneva, Opera House Freiburg in Breisgau with choreographers Sebastian Matthias, Alessandro Sciarroni, Jeremy Wade and composer Michael Jarrell. He lives and work in Zürich.
* composition made of myths and salient elements of his environment, various materials such as hijacking everyday situations, animal tracking, mistranslations from GAFA, reading about decolonisation, totemism, feminism, some radio archives & french humor...
** baptiste morizot
2021 AGENDA
13.02 solo [julien Megroz-NEC] #temple Allemand Chaux-de-fond
21.02 detalk show [Kit +antoine chessex] @Photobastei Zürich
27.02 le grand plongeon [kit] @Théâtre Winkel Luzer
27.03 hors piste [chloé bieri] @Walcheturm Zürich
11.04 voyage [kit] Das institut @zürich (music for film)
24.04 le grand plongeon [kit] Walcheturm Zürich (ignm)
30.05 Detalk-show [kit] @OOR_salon with anna frei
4-5.06 Der Pilz im Patent [Jörg Köppl] @Baden
11.07 Colonial Washing II [B.Köbele] @Nyon
26.08 Love [kit] @Genève
19.09 Detalk-show ([kit]+Lukas Huber @atelier
10.10 LIPS [grame] Lyon
19.11 le grand plongeon with [kit] @gare du Nord-Bâle
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13.02 solo [julien Megroz-NEC] #temple Allemand Chaux-de-fond
21.02 detalk show [Kit +antoine chessex] @Photobastei Zürich
27.02 le grand plongeon [kit] @Théâtre Winkel Luzer
27.03 hors piste [chloé bieri] @Walcheturm Zürich
11.04 voyage [kit] Das institut @zürich (music for film)
24.04 le grand plongeon [kit] Walcheturm Zürich (ignm)
30.05 Detalk-show [kit] @OOR_salon with anna frei
4-5.06 Der Pilz im Patent [Jörg Köppl] @Baden
11.07 Colonial Washing II [B.Köbele] @Nyon
26.08 Love [kit] @Genève
19.09 Detalk-show ([kit]+Lukas Huber @atelier
10.10 LIPS [grame] Lyon
19.11 le grand plongeon with [kit] @gare du Nord-Bâle
MEDUSEN
メデューサ
version hyperlokal 2020
Puzzle piece for a mini-city, four groups of audience, three performers, several objects, with optional live band, video and audio sampler. Libretto homemade
[more infos >here<]
In the manner of a search engine around the word “meduse”. Medusen reveals links between elements which seem at first sight heterogeneous, crossing Greek mythology, science and human history.
Medusen is a multi-perspective performance, which includes a video-walk, audio-walk, treasure-hunt, a guided city tour, a concert and an installation.
Each listener-viewer can select different character paths to unravel a case with another point of view.
Like investigators, the audience discovers the character’s mind, walking between old hegemonic patterns and dopamine.
As a navigator who interprets the sky through constellations to move forward through waters. Medusen activates the imagination of the audience to face their own reality
BALEEN וואַלפיש
Inspired by the story of the super-prophet Jonah (old testament), Baleen focuses on the concept of “loop/karma/cycle-recycle”, from the simple pulse to the complex feedback, translated on stage in hijacked everyday-objects (like turntable, carousel, smoothie machine, etc...).
This work is also a fascination for the anthropomorphic sounds (a saxophone or a balloon can sound like animals or fish such a whale).
A point of view from the book Jonah can rejoin us today, it is this death drive tendency : the secret wish, to the destruction of the city/humanity. Looking at the current impact of humans amongst the environment, we create an ecological tale where plastic bags are seen as creative instruments, not as a secret massive destructive weapon.
F A U N O G R A P H E S
Commissions from different ensembles such ensemble Intercontemporain,
les Métaboles, United instrument of Luxembourg, Musicatreize-Marseille,
Avanti, Batida & Leminiscate amongst others.
On colonisation
On volcano
FASTNACHT
performance with Raphaël Languillat
Adrian Galeazzi + Kay Zhang + Nuriia Khasenova
VIDEO OPERA : LE GRAND PLONGEON
directed by Léo Collin
in collaboration with Kay Zhang + Nuriia Khasenova
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Dampfzentrale Bern
Winner NICATI Competition 2019
Le grand Plongeon is a performative investigation into the
myth of Atlantis, based on the eponymous orchestral piece Atlantis (1995) by Peter Eötvös.
directed by Léo Collin
in collaboration with Kay Zhang + Nuriia Khasenova
Dampfzentrale Bern
Winner NICATI Competition 2019
Le grand Plongeon is a performative investigation into the
myth of Atlantis, based on the eponymous orchestral piece Atlantis (1995) by Peter Eötvös.
WITH_JÖRG
MONO // MOTOR MUTTER // DER PILZ IM PATENT assistant to the Zurich composer and performer and director Jörg Köppl
Music for theater
COLONIAL WASHING I
Bernadette Köbele Regie
@ KaserneBasel
EINE VERSION DER GESCHICHTE
Schauspielerhaus Zurich Marco Milling Regie
Schauspielhaus Zurich, Deutschtheater Berlin
IN VIVO
Alessandro Sciarroni Regie
104 PARISMANIFEST
2020
08.12 Lied Acht duo Rütti + Ungureanu composition @ IGNM Walcheturm Zürich
02-05.12 Der Pilz im Patent by Jörg Köppl co-direction @ Walcheturm Zürich
10-20.09 Medusen composition& direction @ Hyperlokal ZURICH
22-23.08 FASTNACHT composition& direction Rümlingen Festival Basel
28.06 Detalkshow Maximilian Whitcher zürich interpret
13-15.06 Colonial Washing I by Bernadette Köbele composition @ KASERNE BASEL
1-2.06 Detalkshow Charles Kwong interpret videoformat
11.03 Miniature Chaux-de-Fonds NEC composition & interpret
01.03 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Basel
29.02 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Strasbourg
20.01 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Zürich
19.01 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Lausanne
08.12 Lied Acht duo Rütti + Ungureanu composition @ IGNM Walcheturm Zürich
02-05.12 Der Pilz im Patent by Jörg Köppl co-direction @ Walcheturm Zürich
10-20.09 Medusen composition& direction @ Hyperlokal ZURICH
22-23.08 FASTNACHT composition& direction Rümlingen Festival Basel
28.06 Detalkshow Maximilian Whitcher zürich interpret
13-15.06 Colonial Washing I by Bernadette Köbele composition @ KASERNE BASEL
1-2.06 Detalkshow Charles Kwong interpret videoformat
11.03 Miniature Chaux-de-Fonds NEC composition & interpret
01.03 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Basel
29.02 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Strasbourg
20.01 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Zürich
19.01 Ensemble Inverspace Corals composition @Lausanne
2019
21.12 Limbo @ Walcheturm concept and performer
24.11 Detalk show@ Photobastei Zurich interpret and composition
12.10 Marathon White pulse Wollishofen composition
30.09-10.10 residence #LIPS#GRAME Lyon Research
31.08 Le grand plongeon director und performance @ Bern Dampfzentrale
07.07 Ultraschal composition and director
22.06 Offshore lavaux classic String Quartet composition
25 26 28 29.05 Mutter-Motor by Jörg Köppl co-Regie @Gessnerallee
11.05 Fake Origines with KIT IGNM Bern interpret
05.11 De-talk NUMU royal baden interpret Baleen 7 8 9 & 10.03 @ Gessnerallee Zurich composition and director
17.01 20. colonial-Washing Indonesia Research
2-3. 02 Kit-fit @ Wellington (New Zealand) interpret
16-19.01 Kit-fit Melbourne interpret
21.12 Limbo @ Walcheturm concept and performer
24.11 Detalk show@ Photobastei Zurich interpret and composition
12.10 Marathon White pulse Wollishofen composition
30.09-10.10 residence #LIPS#GRAME Lyon Research
31.08 Le grand plongeon director und performance @ Bern Dampfzentrale
07.07 Ultraschal composition and director
22.06 Offshore lavaux classic String Quartet composition
25 26 28 29.05 Mutter-Motor by Jörg Köppl co-Regie @Gessnerallee
11.05 Fake Origines with KIT IGNM Bern interpret
05.11 De-talk NUMU royal baden interpret Baleen 7 8 9 & 10.03 @ Gessnerallee Zurich composition and director
17.01 20. colonial-Washing Indonesia Research
2-3. 02 Kit-fit @ Wellington (New Zealand) interpret
16-19.01 Kit-fit Melbourne interpret
2018
8.12 FCCC by Jeremy Wade & Nina Mühlemann composition @ Gessnerallee
4.12 Detalk @ L’abri Genève
5-27.11 & 16.12 Mono by Jörg Köppl direction
4.10> 5.11 Eine Version der Geschichte composition @ Schauspielhaus ZH
19>23.09 Der Seismograph composition (@Basel Zürich Bern & Biel CH)
13/14/15.09 Des astres composition @ Bühne A Gessneralle
09.08 >10.09 Second Hand Kukuruz Quartet Guerrila Tour CH composition
20/21/22.06 Eine Version der Geschichte composition @Deutsch Theater Berlin.DE
05.05> 03.06 RE-visiting Black Mountain composition @Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
28.04 The link composition @Paris,FR Festival Licence
25.03 Eine verlorene Taube composition @ Hardkirche Zürich,CH
21.03 Wüst, wüste, Wüsten Kirche Konztanz ,D composition
8.12 FCCC by Jeremy Wade & Nina Mühlemann composition @ Gessnerallee
4.12 Detalk @ L’abri Genève
5-27.11 & 16.12 Mono by Jörg Köppl direction
4.10> 5.11 Eine Version der Geschichte composition @ Schauspielhaus ZH
19>23.09 Der Seismograph composition (@Basel Zürich Bern & Biel CH)
13/14/15.09 Des astres composition @ Bühne A Gessneralle
09.08 >10.09 Second Hand Kukuruz Quartet Guerrila Tour CH composition
20/21/22.06 Eine Version der Geschichte composition @Deutsch Theater Berlin.DE
05.05> 03.06 RE-visiting Black Mountain composition @Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
28.04 The link composition @Paris,FR Festival Licence
25.03 Eine verlorene Taube composition @ Hardkirche Zürich,CH
21.03 Wüst, wüste, Wüsten Kirche Konztanz ,D composition
REMERCIEMENTS
BERNADETTE KÖBELE DIRECTOR
CIMON FINIX COMPOSER_PERFORMER
KAYJU ZHANG MUSICIAN
LEANDRO GIANINI AUDIO-ENGINEER
NURIYA KHASENOVA MUSICIAN
DALIUS SINGER AUDIOCODER
MARIANA VIEIRA STAGE-COSTUME DESIGNER
MUM AND DAD MAIN SPONSOR
JORG KÖPPL COMPOSER-PERFORMER
COLIN LUSINCHI VISUAL ARTIST
RAPHAEL LANGUILLAT COMPOSER_VISUAL
ADRIAN GALEAZZI NEW TECHNOLOGIES DESIGNER
BAPTISTE MORIZOT PHILOSOPHER
ERIC LARRIEUX ENGINEER
FRANCESCA SPROCCATI PERFORMER
FLORENT CARRAS COMPOSER
ISANDRO OJEDA-GARCIA COMPOSER
REUBEN JELLEYMAN COMPOSER
LARA STANIC COMPOSER PERFORMER
HYPERLOKAL VENUE
VINCIANE DESPRET PHILOSOPHER
CHARLES QUEVILLON COMPOSER PERFORMER
BRUNO LATOUR PHILOSOPHER
MALCOM FERDINAND PHILOSOPHER
ISABEL MUNDRY COMPOSER
JEAN YVES LELOUP PHILOSOPHER
EVA SULAI ACCORDEONIST
INVERSPACE ENSEMBLE
KOLLEKTIV INTERNATIONAL TOTEM ASSOCIATION
2021 © leocollin