Honorary Mention
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Das Einschalten eines Geräts ist heute eine automatische Geste. Um diese Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der wir Energie verbrauchen zu überdenken, versuchen Stéphane Bonnard und KompleX KapharnaüM unser Bewusstsein dafür zu schärfen, wieviel Aufwand nötig ist, um Energie zu erzeugen und werfen nicht zuletzt eine politische Frage auf: Wenn Energie nur mehr begrenzt verfügbar ist, wofür wollen wir sie nutzen? Mittels selbst erstellter Photovoltaik-Bausätze wird bei „A sun architecture – The party is in full swing” Energie generiert und gespeichert. Mit dieser Energie wiederum wird eine Installation gespeist, bei der sich Besucherinnen entscheiden können, was mit der Energie jeweils geschehen soll. Kaffee kochen? Ein Sound-System versorgen? Licht spenden? Darüber hinaus sind Besucherinnen eingeladen, sich mit folgendem Gedanken zu befassen: Wer entscheidet eigentlich, wofür Energie genutzt wird, wenn sie nicht mehr immer und quasi unbegrenzt zur Verfügung steht?
Credits
Production: KompleX KapharnaüM
Co-production: Hexagone, Atelier Art Sciences
With support from
Atelier Arts Sciences – Workshop Prestige
Hexagone – Scène Nationale Arts Sciences
Experimenta / Arts Sciences 2020
Biographies
Self-taught, Stéphane Bonnard (FR) co-founded KompleX KapharnaüM in 1996. From a public space he imagines specific stories that connect people to a universal narrative, between documentary and fiction, he creates singular worlds that take the form of shows, performances, installations, and spectacular walks. As a text writer he also works on a cycle on the monologue for theater (25, L’Immobile, Rudimentaire, Continent), all published and performed. With the les Studios Bobert, he organizes workshops with scientists and artists about “a new way of talking with the non-humans worlds.”
KompleX KapharnaüM explores humans and landscapes in search of their unique beauty. We travel through stories, we use places as our canvass, we believe in everyday poetry and aim to transcend it. We collect documentary materials that we put together during spectacular performances. In France or abroad, each project adapts to the context in which it is presented or created. We are a team of video makers, musicians, technicians, writers, performers, visual artists, and makers… all of us bringing valuable skills to the creation of our performances. Our creations are fixed or movable, intimate or monumental, shows or installations.
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Jury Statement
The ongoing energy crisis is presenting a huge challenge to governments across Europe and opening the floor for important debates on our relationship with energy and the politics of energy sources, both as a society and as individual citizens. With A Sun Architecture – The Party is in Full Swing, the interdisciplinary team of KompleX KapharnaüM presents an artistic proposition, built on an architectural kit that uses printed photovoltaic surfaces and flexible batteries to tap into a critical question in an experiential and immersive way: “If energy is limited, who will decide how to use it?” Bringing this high-level topic to a personal decision context, this project allows citizens to reduce the abstraction of this socioeconomic challenge and reflect on the tensions between individual and communal priorities. Through this solar-powered live performance supported by an eclectic mix of engineering, political, and architectural mindsets, they are not only advocating for energy autonomy but also moving one step away from technological solutionism, and also dealing in a playful way with the compounded politics of energy use, asking creatively what happens when a resource that is often perceived as endless and is taken for granted in many parts of the world is rationed.