Faire entendre

Both of them are also poets: Anna Gaïotti explores an incisive, powerful language linked to bodies and genders, while Ann Le Troter humorously practices deductions and subtractions. Their works are highly distinctive for taking anonymised or personal texts as their starting point. With extreme inventiveness, they use these to construct gestures, forms, acts and states that are part of a different view of physical and social bodies.

Anna Gaïotti | is a performance artist, choreographer and writer. She creates shifts or bridges between writing and the erotic body. She polishes her voice, her cries and her tapdancing with experimental music and improvisation. She deploys the androgynous clown, the raw body, and saturated, intimate anger, through dance, through threatre, and on paper. Her pieces are negotiations of poetry and of audio and visual material towards choreographic translation. She thus created Plus de Muse Mais un Troupeau de Muets, HEAVYMETAL, and PALSEMBLEU. She also dances alongside Mark Tompkins, Phia Ménard, Emmanuelle Huynh, Véronique Aubouy and André S. Labarthe, and performs with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Pascal Battus, Sophie Agnel and others. Since 2014, she has been a performing choreographer associated with the work of visual artists Amélie Giacomini & Laura Sellies. In 2016, with Léo Dupleix and Sigolène Valax, she co-created the noise music trio VIERGE NOIRE. In 2019 she joined the orchestra Ensemble UN. From 2014 to 2016 she co-organised the Indigo Dance Festival, and led intensive workshops.

Anne Le Troter | is an artist based in Paris. She graduated from HEAD Geneva in 2012 and from ESAD Saint-Étienne in 2011. After writing two books, L’encyclopédie de la matière and Claire, Anne, Laurence, she started working on series exploring how the speech of specific groups appeared, while accumulating exhibitions (often sound pieces), at the end of which she produced written pieces. Anne Le Troter has invited groups of people like ASMR artists to work with her (L’appétence, sound piece, 2016 Prix du Salon de Montrouge / Palais de Tokyo). Having recently finished a series of sound installations exploring the figure of the phone interviewer—a series that was spread over two solo exhibitions and one group exhibition (Les mitoyennes at La BF15 in 2015, Liste à puces at the Palais de Tokyo in 2017 and Les silences après une question at the Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne in 2017)—Anne Le Troter’s work is now taking the sci-fi path. Invited by the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, the 2018 Biennale de Rennes and the Le Grand Café in Saint-Nazaire, the artist is beginning a new writing series exploring the notions of biography, fiction and utopia in connection with audio archives produced by sperm banks, indicative of a kind of redefinition of our society.