La Coalition

Since Virvoucher (Dieppe, 2000), Alain Michard and his team have been working on the “mechanics of representation” and under the influence of the artists Fieschli und Weiss and Jean Tinguely. This is how the idea of a representation considered as a “sculpture in movement” was born. And it is this idea, influenced by Joseph Beuys (cf. the notion of “social sculpture”), that was the starting point for The Coalition. To reactivate a form where objects, images and sounds are treated on an equal footing with the game/dance. The “actors”, objects, images and sounds, but also the spectators, are materials, which form the representation. The representation has a plasticity, is worked like a paste/dough, like a ground/soil. The piece is the testimony of the working conditions, of the context, it is the imprint of it. The artists at work share a space, each one linked to a workstation as in a workshop. They also share this space with the team of the places that welcome them. They contaminate each other.