The codes of Gisèle Vienne

Theo Livesey (1995, London, UK) spent six years on the Centre for Advanced Training scheme at Laban Centre before continuing his studies at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) graduating in 2016. He loosely describes his personal work as a research into ‘fictioning’, expressing itself in live performance as well as in written texts and publications. Over the last years, he has created the performances This Page Intentionally Left Blank, MUTUAL, and the work-in-progress I'mNotReallyHere. His writing has been published in multiple journals, including: b00k "Edition 1 - Yonkers International Press", This Container "Edition 08 - ed. Chloe Chignell, Maia Means, Stefan Govaart" and Letters to Process "Anne Vigeland and Stockholm University". He is currently engaged in a long term research project around the notion of 'Low Intensity Violence' alongside Christine De Smedt and Liza Baliasnaja, an ongoing performance project with Luka Svajda, and is assisting the choreographic work of Mario Barrantes Espinoza. He is also mentoring P.A.R.T.S students for the Training and Research cycles.

Gisèle Vienne is a franco-austrian artist, choreographer and director. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. Over the past 20 years, her work has been touring in Europe and regularly performed in Asia and in America among which, I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle and Crowd (2017). In 2020, she created with Etienne Bideau-Rey a fourth version of Showroomdummies at the Rohm Theater Kyoto, originally created in 2001. In 2021, she made the film Jerk and created L’Etang, a show based Robert Walser’s short story Der Teich. Gisèle Vienne has frequently been exhibiting her photographs and installations in museums among which the New York Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou Paris. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums.