"Hot Bodies (Stand Up)" by Gerald Kurdian & Trk_X
Within the programming of
Acento: Exhibition of the 2016 Artists-in-Residence Programme
28 Jan 2017
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
“Hot Bodies (Stand up)” is the title of a live performance for Gerald Kurdian, two electronic instruments, a sampler and a vocoder, and the participation of a female choir set up for the occasion. Borrowing to the vocabularies of opera, stand-up comedy, choreography and documentary, its libretto tells in 7 chants and 2 danced interludes, the encounters of an anti-hero called Tarek X on his way through the sexual revolutions of the XXth and XXIst centuries.