THE PERFORMANCE AGENCY
DAILY DÉRIVES

THE PERFORMANCE AGENCY

For the 5th edition of Paris Internationale, The Performance Agency presents: The Clockwork (privately public, publicly private).
The Clockwork is an interactive TV Studio that takes shape in the retro-futuristic stage titled House of Trouble (H.O.T.)conceived by the artist Stephanie Stein. During the opening hours of the fair, public speeches are filmed, recorded, and streamed on-site and broadcast on the TV channel Souvenirs from Earth. Speakers from all backgrounds (politics, arts, academia, research, civil society,…) are invited to formulate ideas on the notion of transformation. The Clockwork approaches the speech in the widest sense of the word, as declamations can be sung, silenced, or translated into body movements. The speech becomes performance, becomes manifest.

DAILY DÉRIVES
Building up on last year’s success, Paris Internationale has worked on a second iteration of Daily Dérives, a program of conversations which take form as commented visits of this fifth edition lead by a pair of key figures.

As they progress through the four floors of the venue, artists, curators, critics, teachers, collectors (sometimes all of the above) will exchange about the artworks on view in a flâneur spirit.
Truthful to the Situationist meaning of the dérive, we encourage the expression of personal points of view and hope for an intimate experience for individuals who “let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they found there” (Guy Debord).