Myriam Pruvot

Onda & Storia is the adaptation on a child's scale of the radio performance A modest opera created in 2021 at the Festival Archipel Genève. For the Festival Longueur d'Ondes, the artist proposes an augmented listening experience, in the dark, between broadcasting, live and cinema subtitling. 

Two listening sessions and performances at Center Wallonie Bruxelles and T2G as part of the Sur les Bords # 4 festival

20.01.21 Centre Wallonie Bruxelles 
23.01.21 Théâtre de Genevilliers 

Emêtre is a series of performances in which the position of sender, receiver and sender is successively questioned. In one of its components, Singing Archives: Archived Songs and Sung Archives, is transmitted a selection of "raw" documents, the context of their harvests and the resulting "fired" pieces. Singing Archives: Archived songs and sung archives Performed listening session, 45 ’- During a residency in an art center (ISELP) two years ago, I asked myself the question of audibility. So I went back to my hard drives to understand why I had given up on broadcasting this radio piece, using this interview or publishing this record. As a result of this investigation, I realized that my difficulty in transmitting was precisely what I had tirelessly tried to capture: a form of weak signal from history. This bankruptcy has paradoxically become precious to me. I decided to order the route and to put together a poetic inventory of these phantom excavations. On set, Singing Archives is activated through a paper edition distributed to viewers who choose a set of archives - narrated, sung or recorded - from among 18 chapters. There is a random replay of a research path that circulates just as much outside as it does in my own body.

|| Festival postponed || to July 8> 11, 2020 !

▷▷ Sound substrate festival - 1st edition

▷ Installations ▬ Electroacoustic Concerts ▬ Podcasts ▬ Immersive Sound Pieces ▬ Radio Fictions ▬ Videos ▬ Performances


The INTERFERENCE_S festival aims to reveal a tiny part of the polysemy of sound explorations and to highlight creations developed from sound material.

With Guillaume Abgrall & Chiara Todaro, Blow Out Session, Dance Divine, Julien Devaux, Sebastian Dicenaire, Èlg, Vincent Epplay & Timo Van Luijk, Dominique Petitgand, Julien Poidevin, Myriam Pruvot, Claudia Radulescu, Anna Raimondo, Thomas Turine, Florian Van de Weyer, VOID, Claire Williams.

The Dowser (Sourcière) in framework of Rudy Ducélière's exhbition L'Accalmie des Paradoxes

Echoing Rudy Ducélière’s play J’irai avec elle, Myriam Pruvot offers a sung performance entitled Sourcière in reference to the dowsers, people who probe the groundwater using a wooden rod. Sourcière is a feminine neologism which refers as much to this obsolete practice as to the figure of the witch. Since the efficiency of the dowsers has never been able to be scientifically demonstrated, a hypothesis is nonetheless put forward in the book The signal of the dowser: the wand would play a simple role of earthquake detector, caused by a geo-sensitive variation of the Earth's magnetic field , that only receptive people could perceive. To the "replicating" Rhône which flows through Rudy Ducélière's video installation, Sourcière responds with another invisible and vocal signal. Here the tremor is sung and draws the magnetic reliefs of an underground river.

Residency for an upcoming project, a chamber opera in collaboration with Sylvain Chaveau at GMEA, Albi (FR)

In the context of the Babel exhibition, five artists offer works exploring gesture and hand as vectors of speech and transmission.

Barbara Geraci, La Résurgence du Geste, installation, 2018
Claire Glorieux, Il faut voir comme on nous parle, édition, 2010
Marianne Mispelaëre, Silent Slogan, cartes postales, 2016- en cours
Myriam Pruvot, Engrammer, performance, 2019
Anna Raimondo, New boundaries of the well-being of vaginal eco-system, multimedia, 2017-en cours

Installation & performance in framework of BABEL, a collective exhibition around orality & language.

The Babel exhibition brings together recent works based on the spoken word. Operating on both an intimate and a political level, the works selected address the changes that languages are presently undergoing. Some artists focus on the disappearance of minority languages; others try to (re-)learn languages forgotten by History or by their own personal histories. Several artists propose alternatives and dream of a universal language like Esperanto, the heteroglossia or sign language. In a more political way, Babel also looks at how language is a tool for discrimination. Can you be refused entry to a country because of the language you speak? And what can we amount to in a country whose language we have not mastered? 

The Babel exhibition is supported by a programme of performances, film screenings, conferences, meetings and workshops.

Collaboration in framework of Festival Aurillac

I join the collective Unberwith finance lab as a researcher during this summer to design the sound and the gesture of a new ritual. 

The rituals of unbewitch finance take the form of a temporary occupation of public space. New collective rituals are taking place there to transform our economic system. The public is invited to a space of sharing and experimentation with artistic practices and witches.

In Brussels at Cinema Galeries, Ensemble 0 plays original music to Lee Changdong's acclaimed film "Poetry" (2011) in framework of "L'heure d'été Seoul " festival.

Ensemble 0 will be:
Myriam Pruvot (modular synth, voice, percussion)
Jean-François Brohée (harmonium, ebows)
Valérie Leclercq (flute, voice, percussion)
Sylvain Chauveau (composition, melodica, guitar, percussion)

Research residency at LA PRATIQUE, France. 

I am invited in residence by the choreographer Cécile Loyer in her place LA PRATIQUE from June 23 to 29. On this occasion I invite the artist Myriam Van Imshoot to join me to work together on our current research. Other artists will also be present Mickaël Phelippeau (choreographer), Barbu Béjan (visual artist) , Katie Couprie & Julie Delille. A restitution of the residences will take place saturday 29th at 16h.

Hurler sous la lune, a piece from Mathias Varenne 

A story is told. First we witness its construction and then its transformation, as if we are looking through a hallucinating prism that distorts the words and images. Following his research at L’L about the poetry of the beat generation and the work of Allen Ginsberg, Brussels-based artist Mathias Varenne has created Hurler sous la lune. Varenne is fascinated by the importance of orality and storytelling, and yet he questions here the custom of perpetuating one single version (History with a capital H) that disregards the existence of a multiplicity of accounts (histories). Influenced by science-fiction practices, Varenne offers a new form of storytelling with this project. By combining text, video, light, and sound, Hurler sous la lune has the form of a narration that is progressively filtered, as if by a chemical substance or a kaleidoscopic lens; a gesture to remind us that our world, locked in its pragmatic narrations, definitely needs unusual stories, images and heroes.

LES YEUX GRAND FERMÉS comes from the meeting between Marie Jeanson, Celine Carridroit and Clara Alloing, three women practitioners of sound, but also passionate about radio. For a weekend, multiple creations will resonate in the theater to introduce to a public of the uninitiated the different facets of the art of radio. It is an invitation to listen together to the world and the voices that inhabit it: a cinema for the ear. 

I will be there on friday 22.03.19

19h Listenning session La parole chanceuse (30'55, 2017)
21h Performance Safar (40', 2018) 

more infos & tickets https://saintgervais.ch/spectacle/les-yeux-grand-fermes

Women as vectors of change: art as a remedy for dominant models.

Round table moderated by Marie-Anne Muyshondt from C.D.G.A.I. (Center for Dynamics of Groups and Institutional Analysis) with Loraine Furter, Désorceler Finance, Myriam Pruvot and Élise Dutrieux. Whether it is a visibility, a desire for emancipation, an exit from precariousness, the desire to gather to be stronger, to exchange and help each other, alternative and feminist approaches will be presented as remedies or reparation to dogmas dominating work and art. The match will close with a live performance by Myriam Pruvot.

© Elise Dutrieux, The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (2018).

Festival Vivat la Danse ! 

18h
Coalition
Mylène Benoit & Frank Smith

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18h30
Chant des remèdes (récital)
Myriam Pruvot

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19h
Lou
Mickaël Phelippeau & Lou Cantor

from 14th of January to 5th of April I will be in residency @ ISELP 

For the residency from January to March 2019, ISELP welcomes artist Myriam Pruvot. A graduate in visual arts and composition, she borrows many media among which voice and language remain constant. The artist conducts investigations related to their paradoxical status: traces are inscribed despite their fleeting nature, their immateriality. The collection of clues anchors his most recent work to a documentary form. Fiction or singing nevertheless intervenes as catalysts of thought.

In framework of ARS MUSICA & PALMA ACUSTICA 

Radio live performance from Myriam Pruvot's workshop . In collaboration with Camille Lancelin, Isabelle Sainte-Rose, Maïté Jeannolin, Cabiria Chomel, Jacques Lemaire, Caroline Sordia, Caroline Logiou, Sybille Cornet & Julie Peyrat. Music by Monolithe Noir.



How to give voice to any form of invisibility ? For this second edition, VOIX IMPOSSIBLES workshop proposes to draw inspiration from Denise Ferreira Da Silva's text from On difference without separability. By 2016, this text-manifesto suggests to re-examine our world and our identities through new tools of poetic thoughts. Listening a choir of 8 performers interpreting a collective radio score with texts, sounds and songs. From this vocal and musical eco-system emerge the voices of inaudible presences : invisible, living or inanimate forms, past and present ghosts. Radio becomes a contact membrane, threshold surface between the worlds.

* "On difference without separability" (2016, São Paulo Art Biennial, « Living Uncertainty ») 
Denise Ferreira Da Silva est artiste, professeur et directrice de l’Institut de Justice Sociale à l’Université British Columbia à Vancouver (CA). 

WORKSHOP :
9-13 NOV 2018 @ Atelier de création sonore radiophonique

RADIO LIVE :
15 NOV 2018 / 18h @ Aesp Arba-esa

photography © Akasha, Elsa Laurent, 2017.

Live broadcast for my new radio creation during the closing of the exhibition VISION at Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe | 55’ | 2018

Conception, sound and editing : Myriam Pruvot / With the voices of : Abdelaziz Bouyabrine, Salim Djaféri, Nourredine Ezarraf, Touria Ikbal, Soulaima Laabili et Taha Tourani / Original music : Monolithe Noir 
Additional music : Khalid Badaoui et Lahssen Bouaziz  / Mix : Christophe Rault

Halles de Schaerbeek 

In its third edition, VISIONS brings together again large scale and innovative artworks alongside new work by emerging artists. It’s an immersive experience and the distance or the participation element that connects the artwork to the audience will be the through line for this year’s edition. You’ll find yourself inside a stream of images or inside a storm, surrounded by subtle and fragmented soundscapes or powerful sonic environments.

http://tictacartcentre.com/
Performance in duet with Judith Ruiz Sanchez in the frame of Tic Tac Centre opening.

La parole chanceuse (brodcast and interview) in framework of RE:FLUX festival
Experimental Music and Sound Art Festival in Moncton, NB, Canada. 

on CKUM Radio 1 june / between 23h and midnight  

A parenthesis to the main events of the festival, Re:flux Radio, a partnership with CKUM 93.5, broadcasts a diversity of radio specific content that highlights the multifaceted disciplines of sound art and experimental music. Radio Re:flux will be broadcasted from May 31 through June 3, from 11PM to midnight.This year’s edition goes international and presents the artists Felipe Vaz (Germany), Andrius Arutiunian (Netherlands) and Myriam Pruvot (Belgium).

MARRAKECH / BRUSSELS THE SACRED - ACT 1

Palais El Bahia from 7pm to 9pm
At the invitation of Les Halles de Schaerbeek and Awaln'art, as part of the Year of Morocco in Belgium, with the support of the Ministry of Promotion of Brussels and the collaborations of ESAV, Dar Bellarj and AL MAQAM seventeen young artists, seven Brusselers, two Italians and seven Moroccans came across their vision of the sacred
Safar سفر (work in progress) is a radio play, instrumental and vocal, where 70 fragments of words around the same objects circulate: the verb and the voice. From interview conducted with Touria Ikbal, Abdelaaziz Bouyabrine, Soulaima Laabili, Taha Tourani.

Translation and collaboration in french/arab by Nourredine Ezarraf

Assemblée d'Avril
For two weeks, dozens of art students, emerging artists and intellectuals will gather around Les Halles to investigate the role of the sacred in today’s world. The event will consist in a series of daily free debates, Q&A and artistic sharings.

Upcoming broadcast for my radio creation La parole chanceuse (2017)

radio campus 
► 19.02.18  14h30
► 12.03.18  16h00
► 12.03.18  midnight

radio libellule 
► 22.02.18

La parole chanceuse is originally a short text by Marguerite Duras from her collection La Vie matérielle, of which only the title remains. The author describes the invisible armament that gives a so-called "lucky" speech to an audience. And when it happened to you once, « la parole chanceuse », it happens to you all the time after. The borrowing of this "magic" formulation serves as a pretext for the unfolding of a story: the daily life of a young girl’s home, their learning of the world. The indices of time, place and action are incomplete. To this story is enshrined the speech of Mohamed Ali who preceded his fight against George Foreman in 1974.

Here some pictures of the last concert in 10/12 Gallery with Sylvain Chauveau by Laurent Orseau

Solo performance with Sylvain Chauveau as part as the installation "qu'as tu gardé de notre amour ?" of Thomas Jean Henry (aka Cabane) in 10/12 Gallery

15:00 18:00
rue de la grande île, 12, 1000 Brussels
facebook event

Mathias Varenne, end of research @ Brussels Dance ! Théâtre de L'L, Brussels (BE)

07.02 20h30
08.02 14h
free entrance
booking contact@llrecherche.be / + 32 2 512 49 69  

Based on the symbolic Howl of Allen Ginsberg, an interdisciplinary trio looks for its own ‘cry’, between sound poetry, film projection, sound, body and space. Hurler sous la lune (Howl) is a poetic and political research project in which Varenne defends the fictional and narrative as an important source of inspiration for proposals. For this purpose, he uses an oral, universal and ancestral tradition: telling stories.

Text, scenography & performance: Mathias Varenne, Sound design & performance: Myriam Pruvot, Image design, lighting design & performance: Damien Petitot, Artistic accompaniment: L’L

Solo performance for a radio happening initiated by Anna Raimondo @ RECYCLART

Music residency @ Comacina Island with Wallonie Bruxelles International, Comacina (IT)

PARC(S) (+ Stéphane Garin, Rainier Lericolais, Thomas Meadowcroft, Stephan Mathieu) more infos : here
@ Accès, Pau (FR)

Concert in the Chapel / 3 SOLI Sis_Mic + Myriam Pruvot + Alexandra Sebbag @ GreyLight Projects (BE)

Perfomance Tirésia + Benoit Grimalt and Vida Niva (in order to save Ateliers Mommen)
@ Ateliers Mommen, Brussels (BE)

Solo performance @ Festival Face Z more infos here (CH)

"Voix Impossibles" workshop's feedback @ Radio Panik, Brussels (BE) to listen : here

First music research residency in framework of an upcoming project about the "sacred" order by Halles de Schaerbeek @ Marrakech (MA)

A nice article from Caroline Berliner in the web magazine Bela about my radio creation, la parole chanceuse. To read the article : here