MATAHOATA
New Paradigm Opera
Ongoing Project
Created in collaboration with the local community
of Te Henua Enana / Te Fenua Enata (Marquesas Islands archipelago), researchers, artists, composers, anthropologists, botanists, and archaeologists.
Three layers of work are emerging:
The first, rooted in the field, is embodied through deep listening, sensitive transmissions, open laboratories, and gestures that nurture relationships and community.
The second extends remotely, like an invisible thread connecting voices: it is woven through online collaboration, the sharing of research on the site TheWitness.earth, and the emergence of resonances among different platform communities.
The third gives tangible form to the whole — a performative installation, where experiences come to life through materials, sounds, and presences.
Informations
Cast & crew
Artistic Direction, Choreography: Julie Beauvais
Artistic Direction, Video DoP: Horace Lundd
Score Composition and Sound: Christophe Fellay
Scenographic Design: Sibylle Kössler - Formerykössler, Wynd van der Woude - Index Architectes
Created with and performed by: Michael John Harper, Orakle Ngoy, Winsome Brown, Carolyn Cowan, Nyima, Diego Bagagal, August Schaltenbrand, Natalia Chami, Valentina Bordenave, Frans W.M. Franssens
Video Editing: Paul Gauthier
Video Color Grading: Marjolaine Mispelaere
Wood Engineering: Rémy Meylan - Whood X Mug
Media Technology: Zinzoline Sarl, Des Choses Pareilles
Technical Direction: BadNewsFromTheStars*
Administration: Sarah Bétrisey
Press: Florence Proton
Translation: Alexa Gruber, Lydia Stevens
Guests sound artists
NaH - USA
Apollo Noir - FR
Bartira - BR
Meryll Ampe - FR
Yannick Barman - CH
Joëlle Léandre - FR
Cesar Bernal - CL
Chaoba Thyiam - IN
Guillermina Etkin - AR
Leonel Kaplan - AR
Sir o Sir - DE
Charlotte Hug - CH
eRikm - FR
Yashas Shetty - IN
Partners
Production: BadNewsFromTheStars* - CH, Horace Lundd - FR
Coproduction: La Bâtie, Festival de Genève - CH
Partners: LAPIS/EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - CH, Accélérateur de Particules Strasbourg - FR, Sandbox Collective - IN
Soutiens: Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture, Pro Helvetia South America - COINCIDENCIA Program, Pro Helvetia New Delhi
CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée - dispositif DICRéAM aide au développement, CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée - dispositif DICRéAM aide à la production, DRAC - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand Est - aide individuelle à la création, Région Grand Est - soutien à la création du spectacle vivant et des arts visuels, Loterie Romande Vaud, Loterie Romande Valais, Canton du Valais - service de la culture, Ville de Genève - département des finances et du logement, HEAR - Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, NAF - Nachom Arts Foundation, Sandbox Collective, Goethe Institutes Bangalore, BNM - Ballet National de Marseille, gmem-CNCN-Marseille
Thanks
Alexa Gruber, Christine Marsan, Caroline Dayer, Nicola Braghieri, Sara Formery, Manon Fantini, Laurent Chassot, Camille Cottagnoud, Ingrid Beauvais, Amélie Rouyer, Roland Sprenger, Monique Sprenger, Nicole Mudry, Rinah Läng, Susanne Steffen, Ulla Klingovsky, Arthur Debert, Chloé Grunhertz, Iris Aubry, Wilfried Luzele, Lucille De Witte Luzele, Paty Masiapa , Mega Minigiedi, Yves Sambu, Andee Radu, Aziz Friedrich, Rainer Judd, Agnès Cremel, Shabari Rao, Anitha Santhanam, Namgyal Taklha, Tribhuwan Chauhan, Anouk Jacob, Martim Dinis, Matilde Menezes Ferreira, Cristina Tavares, Tomás Maia, Mariana Brandão, António Câmara Manuel, Gwendolyn Jenkins, Solam, Céline Golaz, Florence Guignard, Lucrèce Minuty, Joël Zufferey, Julia Moroge, Marine Ventura, Viviane Lima, Philippe Biollaz, Lyvia Papilloud, Lauryline, Jean-Luc Torrent, Bastien Charvoz, Rita Bonvin, Lisa Biedlingmaier, Moritz Finkbeiner, Alex Scobie, Karin Denoual, Rut and Carlos Chami, Metty Franssens, Ella van der Woude, Luciano Percara, Shariff Korver, Celia Jesupret, Daniel Alvarez, Shiva Pathak, Nimie Ravindran, Surjit Nongmeikapam, Lucky Lersmo, Shantanu Heisnam, Ring Wong, Tombi, Haonao