《COLLAGENE》
Author:
Théo Casciani
With:
Jesse Doon Kanda
Kazumichi Komatsu
Yohei Yamakado
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit
Vincent Moulinet
Kazumichi Komatsu
Yohei Yamakado
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit
Vincent Moulinet
Creative direction:
Simon de Dreuille
Graphic design:
Masayuki Makino
Translation:
Mana Haraguchi
Assistant:
Alice Butterlin
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Conceived as a cosmogony of virtual and alternative worlds, the plans etched by Model, a novel by French writer Théo Casciani, see the text taking on parallel lives in real time, transforming and mutating even before publication. Hybrid readings that have taken forms as varied as film, video game, radio play, theater piece or exhibition in places like the Mucem (Marseille), MontezPress (NYC), Reference.Point (London), Terranova (Barcelona), WIELS (Brussels), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris) and the Louvre (Paris). Renewing the feuilleton serial system, these collaborative events aim to confront the text to different perspectives and sensibilities while it is still malleable, using a variety of media to establish the fiction’s atmosphere.
After revealing the eight first chapters through a series of collaborative events all over the world, it’s time to uncover the next one in Kyoto. Blending different mediums and tempos, Collagen is crafted as a night of sensory discoveries, varying in intensity as the evening progresses, from a set by Kazumichi Komatsu to a video game by Vincent Moulinet, film screenings by Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit and Yokei Yamakado, followed by a sound and text performance by Doon Kanda and Théo Casciani.
フランスの作家テオ・カシアーニの小説「Model」に描かれた計画では、仮想世界と代替世界の宇宙論として構想され、テキストはリアルタイムで並行して生き、出版前から変容し、変化しています。映画、ビデオゲーム、ラジオドラマ、演劇、展覧会など、さまざまな形態をとったハイブリッドな朗読は、Mucem（マルセイユ）、MontezPress（ニューヨーク）、Reference.Point（ロンドン）、Terranova（バルセロナ）、WIELS（ブリュッセル）、Lafayette Anticipations（パリ）、ルーブル美術館（パリ）などの場所で開催されています。これらのコラボレーションイベントは、フェイユトーンの連続システムを刷新し、さまざまなメディアを使用してフィクションの雰囲気を確立し、テキストがまだ柔軟なうちに、さまざまな視点と感性にテキストを対峙させることを目指しています。
世界中の一連の共同イベントを通じて最初の8章を公開した後、京都で次の章を公開する時が来ました。さまざまな媒体とテンポを融合した「Collagen」は、Kazumichi Komatsuによるセットから Vincent Moulinetによるビデオゲーム、Sarah-Anaïs DesbenoitとYokei Yamakadoによる映画上映、そしてDoon KandaとThéo Cascianiによるサウンドとテキストのパフォーマンスまで、夜が進むにつれて強度が変化する感覚的な発見の夜として作られています。
Théo Casciani
Théo Casciani is an author. Rétine, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, for example at Kyoto Art Center (JP), Palais de Tokyo (FR) or Goteborg Opera (SW), Actoral (FR), Trauma (DE), Spazio Maiocchi (IT) or Centre Pompidou (FR). He has also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Capsule, Spectre, Klima, Aleï, Habitante, Magma, Mouvement, European Review of Books and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations and a research seminar in Belgium, in 2021. He is currently working on two novels to be published in 2025, including Model, a cosmogony accompanied by a series of twelve collective and multimedia readings.
https://theocasciani.page/
Théo Casciani is an author. Rétine, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, for example at Kyoto Art Center (JP), Palais de Tokyo (FR) or Goteborg Opera (SW), Actoral (FR), Trauma (DE), Spazio Maiocchi (IT) or Centre Pompidou (FR). He has also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Capsule, Spectre, Klima, Aleï, Habitante, Magma, Mouvement, European Review of Books and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations and a research seminar in Belgium, in 2021. He is currently working on two novels to be published in 2025, including Model, a cosmogony accompanied by a series of twelve collective and multimedia readings.
https://theocasciani.page/
Doon Kanda
Doon Kanda, the enigmatic artist and musician born Jesse Kanda, has carved a distinctive niche within the music and visual arts landscapes. Based in Japan, Kanda is not solely a musician; he is an artist and animator whose explorations touch on the realms of deconstructed club music. He has collaborated with artists like Arca, FKA Twigs and Björk and is now pursuing a solo career, having released three albums since 2019, wonderful bubbles of experimental and ambient works.
https://doonkanda.bandcamp.com/
Doon Kanda, the enigmatic artist and musician born Jesse Kanda, has carved a distinctive niche within the music and visual arts landscapes. Based in Japan, Kanda is not solely a musician; he is an artist and animator whose explorations touch on the realms of deconstructed club music. He has collaborated with artists like Arca, FKA Twigs and Björk and is now pursuing a solo career, having released three albums since 2019, wonderful bubbles of experimental and ambient works.
https://doonkanda.bandcamp.com/
La lyre à jamais illustra le taudis by Yohei Yamakado
Yohei Yamakado makes sound and visual works. He studied philosophy and cinema before graduating in fine arts from Le Mans, then in 2012 founded Récit, a Paris-based record company open to all forms of aural experiments, from acoustics to contemporary music. His productions have been presented at several events and in a number of institutions such as FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France (2019), LʼOnde (2018), Nuit Blanche Kyoto (2015, 2016, 2017), Towada art centre (2016), Goethe Institut Paris (2014) and IRCAM (2014). La lyre à jamais illustra le taudis is his first film.
https://www.yoheiyamakado.com/
Yohei Yamakado makes sound and visual works. He studied philosophy and cinema before graduating in fine arts from Le Mans, then in 2012 founded Récit, a Paris-based record company open to all forms of aural experiments, from acoustics to contemporary music. His productions have been presented at several events and in a number of institutions such as FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France (2019), LʼOnde (2018), Nuit Blanche Kyoto (2015, 2016, 2017), Towada art centre (2016), Goethe Institut Paris (2014) and IRCAM (2014). La lyre à jamais illustra le taudis is his first film.
https://www.yoheiyamakado.com/
Phalène by Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit is a visual artist and director, having graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy and Fresnoy, national studio of contemporary arts. Fueled by long-term research – developed in particular during a residency at the Thighmert Oasis in the Moroccan desert and a stay at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan – her work focuses on the mechanisms of appearance and disappearance of images and their influences on memory and cognition. By creating miniatures, but also by using video, projection and sound, she creates installations that invite meditation and slowing down. Phalène is her latest film.
https://www.instagram.com/sarah.daria/
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit is a visual artist and director, having graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy and Fresnoy, national studio of contemporary arts. Fueled by long-term research – developed in particular during a residency at the Thighmert Oasis in the Moroccan desert and a stay at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan – her work focuses on the mechanisms of appearance and disappearance of images and their influences on memory and cognition. By creating miniatures, but also by using video, projection and sound, she creates installations that invite meditation and slowing down. Phalène is her latest film.
https://www.instagram.com/sarah.daria/
R.O.T Stands for Realm of Tears by Vincent Moulinet
Vincent Moulinet is a Paris-based artist, curator, and game designer who utilizes real-time media and video games both as a driving force and a foundational methodology for research. He crafts interconnected worlds that share characters, artifacts, and myths, each expanding into the next and drawing from real-world observations and his own speculative fictions with a particular focus on mutating biological architectures, planetary sentience and queer practices.
As a curator, he organizes exhibitions, playful events, research programs and international game jams in partnership with Fabbula. He is also a founding member of distraction.fun, a Paris-based collective working on ways to re-introduce video games in the public space.
https://vincentmoulinet.com/
Vincent Moulinet is a Paris-based artist, curator, and game designer who utilizes real-time media and video games both as a driving force and a foundational methodology for research. He crafts interconnected worlds that share characters, artifacts, and myths, each expanding into the next and drawing from real-world observations and his own speculative fictions with a particular focus on mutating biological architectures, planetary sentience and queer practices.
As a curator, he organizes exhibitions, playful events, research programs and international game jams in partnership with Fabbula. He is also a founding member of distraction.fun, a Paris-based collective working on ways to re-introduce video games in the public space.
https://vincentmoulinet.com/
Kazumichi Komatsu
Based in Kyoto, Kazumichi Komatsu has released numerous recordings under several labels and publishers, including angoisse, BUS editions, FLAU, Manila Institute, psalmus diuersae, and REST NOW! Komatsu has performed live shows across Japan, sharing bills with the likes of Julia Holter, Die Reihe, The Field, Clark & Ryoji Ikeda. His work and research focuses on romances of the body and information through the mediums of light and song, with major exhibitions including “FAKEBOOK” (Workstation., Tokyo, 2016), “Standing Ovation / Destination of Four Limbs” (former Hotel New Acao, Shizuoka, 2021), and “Planet Samsa” (former site of Odaka Bookbinding Company, Tokyo, 2022).
https://kazumichikomatsu.com/
Based in Kyoto, Kazumichi Komatsu has released numerous recordings under several labels and publishers, including angoisse, BUS editions, FLAU, Manila Institute, psalmus diuersae, and REST NOW! Komatsu has performed live shows across Japan, sharing bills with the likes of Julia Holter, Die Reihe, The Field, Clark & Ryoji Ikeda. His work and research focuses on romances of the body and information through the mediums of light and song, with major exhibitions including “FAKEBOOK” (Workstation., Tokyo, 2016), “Standing Ovation / Destination of Four Limbs” (former Hotel New Acao, Shizuoka, 2021), and “Planet Samsa” (former site of Odaka Bookbinding Company, Tokyo, 2022).
https://kazumichikomatsu.com/