Palimpsest
audio-walk, 2018
Palimpsest explores the poetic potential of the language of audio-description. Available via a smartphone application, a collection of geo-tagged sound compositions invite the listener on a guided tour of the city. The audience members become actors in the movement, projected in spite of themselves onto the stage of an ephemeral theatre. Although the dancers will be physically absent their subtle evocation within the hyper-realistic narration will lead them to gradually materialize in the spectators’ imaginations - like phantoms haunting the surrounding landscapes. Physical proximity and intimacy are fundamental aspects of the piece’s concept and composition, which means that the audience will perceive the presence of the physically absent performers as something very much alive.
| concept: | Nicole Seiler |
| text, french voice: |
Séverine Skierski |
| composition and sound design: |
Patricia Bosshard |
| german voice: |
Cathrin Strömer |
| german translation: |
Dora Kapusta, subtext |
| app development: | App3Null GmbH |
| history collaborator: | Anne-Gaëlle Neipp |
| history consultants Lausanne: |
Ariane Devanthéry |
| history consultants Nyon: | Véronique Rey-Vodoz Catherine Schmutz |
| administration: | Laurence Rochat |
| touring: | Michaël Monney |
| production: |
Cie Nicole Seiler |
| coproduction: |
Arsenic Lausanne |
| supports: | Ville de Lausanne Etat de Vaud Pro Helvetia — Fondation suisse pour la culture Loterie Romande Fondation Ernst Göhner |
