Press excerpts
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Laboratory culture, Josephine Leask, Dance Theater Journal, January 2002, London, UK
…What is impressive about these new technology artists, is that they have found a comfortable meeting point between the dancing physical body and technology. The dancers were empowered working in the intelligent space, and were not dominated in any way by the bank of machines, while the intricate and analytical style of their movement mirrored the complex manipulations of the artists at their computers. Together they created a series of disturbing and beautiful images. At one point Poulin uses mini crutches to extend the lines of her body, as bright line of light pans over the walls like a hospital graph. While such work demands a strong level of concentration from the audience, it really is about the revisioning of the body and is a work that will develop each time it is performed in response to its environment…
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Experiencing the spaces (translated excerpt), Andrea Armort, Kurier, October 2002, Vienna, Austria
Künstlerhaus : halfway through the Image Festival
…The installation schème II, visibly influenced by a scientific procedure, was by far the most successful. In this piece, media artist Martin Kusch and choreographer Marie-Claude Poulin generate a universe of images that explore the relationship between states of the body and aptitude for experience. Through five clearly defined propositions, Poulin and Line Nault (the second dancer) propose a vision of the body whose intensity is matched by its constraints. Throughout the piece, video sequences triggered by sensors evoke and suggest abstract graphic constructions. One must find one’s own way through the performance, and it seems that the end arrives all too quickly. But images from that experience will hold the spectator’s imagination captive long afterward...
Better cloning (translated excerpt), Eva-Elizabeth Fischer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 2002, Munich, Germany
The streets of Haidhausen
…Good things come in small packages, as could be seen in the Lothringerstrasse art gallery with the festival’s discovery: Canada’s kondition pluriel. Performing in a space filled with columns, these two young dancers demonstrated with their intense duo that technology could also live and breathe. Video images from the backstreets of the historic quarter of Haidhausen lifted us out of the screening room, confirming Merce Cunningham’s vision by extending the performance space from the stage into infinity.
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Corps à corps à dimensions multiples, Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir, February 2003, Montréal, Canada
Et si le corps allait au-delà de ses limites physiques? Les technologies ne permettraient-elles pas de prolonger ce coprs, d’en multiplier les dimensions, et inversement, le corps n’est-il pas le catalyseur le plus noble des mutations technologiques possibles?
…Ce sont ces enjeux qu’explore kondition pluriel, compagnie fondée par la chorégraphe Marie-Claude Poulain et l’artiste médiatique Martin Kusch. […] Mais au-delà des concepts qui sous-tendent leurs recherches, dans le rendu sur scène, les deux artistes veulent simplifier leurs propositions techniques et artistiques avec //.présence./.techno./.labo.//. Par dessus tout, ils souhaitent clarifier le lien causal entre le geste et son impact dans l’environnement médiatique. […] Leurs créations où corps et médias interagissent, sont loin d’être des œuvres finies, figées; elles évoluent plutôt au rythme de leurs découvertes, de leurs erreurs et d’une lent -- mais sûre maîtrise de leur art.
