Clément Thiry (Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Apnée Zoo Beat

Transcultures / City Sonic invited Antoine Boute (writer, performer) with his accomplices. They are Chloé Schuiten (designer, writer and ‘designer of waste’), Clément Thiry (visual artist and interdisciplinary creator), Jeanne Pruvot Simonneaux (performer and sculptor) and students of the School of Graphic Research (ERG, Brussels) where he teaches and transforms the space of la Maisons des Jeunes Chez Zelle.

Apnée Zoo Beat is a growing installation activated during an immersive performance of “civilizational Apnea” clotured by a Biohardcore Banquet (29.11 > see City Sonic #16 events @LLN) in the city of Louvain-la-Neuve to feel the pulse of his various forms of life and then add a layer, a pulsation, accumulate attempts to approach, as many beats, “punches” or bites as possible, to then hang them like cloves in Chez Zelle.

Additionally, a video lounge with selected works related to the artists: Chloé Schuiten (Be), Clément Thiry (Fr), Martine Doyen (Be), June Peduzzi (Fr/It) (Fr/It).

Zero waste banquet + organic hardcore performance

To end, in a festive and participative way, their evolving creation(s) residency, conducted on the occasion of City Sonic # 16, at Maison des jeunes Chez Zelle, Antoine Boute and his accomplices offer a big tasty and long banquet. Made 100% of recuperation food, it will be interspersed with “bio hardcore” performance, because the bio-hardcore revolution that uses constraint as a motor of reactivity is not only by sleeping, glancing, or working, but also by eating.

Biography

Clément Thiry sings, draws and realizes installations, all while performing nocturnal city walks in order to spot under-lit spaces of town. Then he builds nests in which he experiences sleep, to rethink our daily lives. He thus goes from being a precarious architect to being a sleeper. He builds by weaving and mixing organic and industrial materials. He uses what he finds during his wanderings. Walking is an integral part of his practice. His fragile constructions are designed by addition, patterns and knotting. What does not fit is consolidated rather than redone. He is also part of the theater of objects collective Boîte à Clous, and the children’s punk band Gyrophare.