#Life Time
Mar
May 2020
From the very beginning of the lockdown, Lafayette Anticipations launched the digital programme "Lifetime", through which regular postings were made of unpublished contributions from artists, thinkers, dancers and musicians, perspectives imagined by those who participate in the diversity of international contemporary creation.
Intended to be a platform for exchange, thought and creation, but also to support artists, "Lifetime" has enabled a very wide audience to discover the proposals of Laure Prouvost, Emanuele Coccia, Lafawndah, Martine Syms, Bill Kouligas, David Horvitz among others.
15 May 2020
Silent Movement
Zoë Mc Pherson and Alessandra Leone composed, especially for Lifetime, Silent Movement, a video made from archived video and photography from both artist's previous journeys on the road, where one can see landscapes that pass by. The soundtrack is a live recording using voice and modular synths.
Throughout the piece, the two take an audiovisual, yet ultimately cerebral trip, with soft motion and ominous force.
11 May 2020
Lafawndah
CONCORDIA 01
CONCORDIA 01 is the debut instalment in an ongoing series of nocturnal performance films by Lafawndah and Trustfall.
In this episode, specially created for Lifetime, Lafawndah and Trustfall follow the red thread between Beverley Glenn Copeland, Throbbing Gristle, Scott Walker, Pentangle, and Brigitte Fontaine + Areski Belkacem. By turns terse, expansive, sensual and scorched, these songs are explored for their mystery and playfulness.
The CONCORDIA series aims to uncover the immense in the intimate. These are ballads for the frontier incidents between one world and the other.
*Film by Claire Arnold, Set Design and Lighting by Ylan Lucas
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08 May 2020
Mélanie Matranga
Reading
The projects by Mélanie Matranga generally echo the state of our sensations and the notion of intimacy. Especially for Lifetime, Mélanie Matranga recorded Reading, superimposition and juxtaposition of sound layers of various natures: texts by Jacques Rigaut, Friedrich Nietzsche and Ingeborg Bachmann are intermingled with sounds, songs and melodies from the discotheque of Quentin Vandewalle, co-founder of the Antinote label.
And yet, even if words accumulate at the bottom of the throat without any meaning being able to trace its path, one must speak, communicate, exchange... In order to escape this "legitimate" boredom, this boredom that does not lead to Rome, as described by Jacques Rigaut.
So I picked up in Quentin Vandewalle's discotheque, and in my library, to find people who talk, eternally, in a loop on discs and over the pages. I address you with the words of others, because I don't have much to say, as there's too much going on, all around, which leaves me speechless... "
06 May 2020
Laure Prouvost
We Know We Are Just Pixels
For Lifetime, Laure Prouvost offers us her film We Know We Are Just Pixels for viewing. Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, she makes the images converse with each other and discuss, in front of the spectator, their existences and their vulnerabilities. The images want to be more than just pixels; they want to explore and exist outside of the machine upon which they are being played.
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris and Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin and Madrid) and Lisson Gallery (London, New York, and Shanghai).
05 May 2020
Low Jack
Mix
Born in Honduras, Philippe Hallais aka Low Jack is one of the most interesting electronic music producers on the French scene. He keeps one foot in club culture while probing abstract sound experiments with noise or drone.
For "Lifetime", he offers us a unique mix of dub and futuristic mutations, inspired by the multiplicity of musical languages associated with subcultures.
04 May 2020
Emanuele Coccia
The end of a world
Through a conversation with Clément Delépine - curator and director of the Paris International Fair - the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, author of "La Vie des plantes. Une métaphysique du mélange" and "Métamorphoses", discusses especially for Lifetime how the current pandemic is accelerating the end of a world.
“It is difficult to know what kind of world will await us when we emerge from this crisis. But what is certain is that the arrival of this pandemic has accelerated the end of a world that was already in agony and brings a future that is quite open, both frightening and full of hope”
30 April 2020
Nkisi
Orb
For Lifetime, Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi - a leading figure in today's experimental music - composed Orb, a sonic and visual exploration of the cosmos.
Nkisi uses music and sound to reveal the phenomena of living things, especially cosmic vibrations.
“You don’t need to see to know it’s there,
We experience through sound,
Everything within everything,
Diffusion of energy,
Intentions, distortions,
And we are in touch with the unconscious...”
Nkisi
note: to listen with eyes open or closed…
28 April 2020
Katinka Bock
Seechameleon
For Lifetime, the German artist Katinka Bock offers a work that has not been shown much to date.
This tale inspired Katinka to make the video "Seechameleon".
24 April 2020
Bill Kouligas
Mix
In 12 years of existence and under the direction of Bill Kouligas, Pan has never ceased to push the limits of musical genres towards undiscovered territories. His mix specially conceived for "Lifetime" is no exception to this and offers us in 24 tracks a staggering panorama of what should, without a doubt, compose our musical landscape in the coming months!
23 April 2020
Tujiko Noriko
KOKONI IRUYO ISSHO DAYO
For Lifetime, through a "home session", Tujiko Noriko lets us glimpse into her creative process while guiding us through her house.
"I tried to do the best of our confinement, staying together and united".
22 April 2020
Cally Spooner
SWEAT SHAME ETC.

Specially for Lifetime, Cally Spooner offers us a score of 29 drawings as well as a film of Maggie Segale dancing the drawings.
Cally Spooner
SWEAT SHAME ETC., 2018
Pencil, colored pencil and ink on technical paper, plastic
Courtesy of the artist and gb agency, Paris
Private Collection
21 April 2020
Yasmine Hugonnet
La Ronde
In this choreographed ronde by Yasmine Hugonnet and filmed by Mathieu Bouvier, the distant bodies engage in a slow process of coming together that the camera observes in a close shot, on the scale of skin, concentration, tenacity.
"The ronde is the space that takes time to change one body into another. Each body unrolls in the body following the dance of a common body".
20 April 2020
Nora Turato
Screensavers




Picking fragments from the continuous flow of words and opinions that circulate daily, the Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato creates text works with a touch of “déjà vu”.
Especially for Lifetime, the artist offers a series of 5 works for free download - imagined as screen savers!
Partly commissioned by Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
⇪ thanks, i hate it_iphone
⇪ my small screen distracts me from my big screen_4k
⇪ let’s never be like that_smartphone_tablet
⇪ it seems the ice cream licked back
⇪ i wake up and go insane_ipad
17 April 2020
Volmir Cordeiro
Thèse-Mantra
Choreographer Volmir Cordeiro and Bruno Pace, in close collaboration with Carolina Janning, have concocted for Lifetime an action film, a “Thèse-Mantra”* on a purple background, a twist-off manifesto with lots of special effects. Here's something to get us on our feet, in words and movements.
*Thèse-Mantra, Manifesto of Volmir Cordeiro, published in his book “Ex-Corpo”, Éditions Carnets du Centre National de la Danse (2019).
16 April 2020
Oona Doherty
Doherty locked down radio
For Lifetime, Oona Doherty grabs the microphone for an improvised radio show where her buoyant voice, and sometimes teasing sense of humour, intertwine with a selection of songs that resonate with our state of confinement.
Because I miss you all
With love
Oona”
15 April 2020
Martine Syms
Theory of Motion (1): Birthday, 23
Especially for Lifetime, Martine Syms tells us about loneliness through sound and images; inspired by the current situation, the artist transposes Cameron Awkward-Rich's text into a video, and invites us to consider on another way of looking at isolation.
the world has suddenly become untraversable----
I can’t go to the concert. The grocery store.
Can’t be in the company of people.
What could be a better gift?”
14 April 2020
Ivana Müller
Réflexions partagées
Through her choreographic and theatrical work, Ivana Müller revisits the places of the imagination by questioning the notion of "participation" and the potential of common sense.
10 April 2020
David Horvitz
Create conceptual art pieces at home


After inviting parents to entertain their children creatively and poetically, David Horvitz is now imagining guidelines to create or activate conceptual art pieces at home. A new way to transform our everyday life by reappropriating our living space!
For one hour, exchange your breath with a house plant’s breath.
Piece 2
Read one sentence from every book in your house.
Piece 3
Make kitchen music.
Piece 4
Bring the outside inside.
09 April 2020
Théo Robine Langlois
Don't forget your body in the bubble
For the "Lifetime" project, Théo Robine-Langlois presents the first three chapters of Don't forget your body in the bubble, a new series of sound and visual texts around the issue of the body in the suburbs.
08 April 2020
Hanne Lippard
Mistakes Made
Hanne Lippard transformed her text Mistakes Made (2014) into a video piece for the project Lifetime.
'Solar power, is powerless. Solar hour is hourless.'
07 April 2020
Christelle Oyiri / Crystallmess
Kiss & Tell
NTS radio's resident artist Christelle Oyiri aka Crystallmess shares with us, for the Lifetime project, a new unpublished sound piece in homage to the ancestors, in collaboration with Julien Creuzet for the voice and the texts.
In Christelle Oyiri's words: "Kiss & Tell makes different temporalities and different spaces coexist. It is an ode to hauntology where the ancestor becomes a benevolent ghost who is invited to live in the house of the present. It is to reconcile oneself with the idea of being in the presence of a ghost, whether living or dead. »
06 April 2020
Mercedes Dassy
Warm up Session online
What becomes of our bodies in confinement, trapped between the attempt to keep up appearances and the desire to let go?
03 April 2020
Rachel Rose
The ideal soundtrack
The artist Rachel Rose gives us her confinement playlist especially for Lifetime.
02 April 2020
David Horvitz
Lessons and activities for a child
Discover 10 playful and offbeat ideas to keep parents and children busy by David Horvitz for the Lifetime project. He offers us new perspectives on our surroundings in this time of lockdown.
1. On Familiarity of Place
In a place you are familiar with, a place you know as home, find something you are unfamiliar with, something that you had not noticed before. This could be your apartment, bedroom, street, etc... For example, you might discover the particularity of the ceiling corners of your bedroom.
2. On Water
Take a glass of water from the tap. Contemplate it. Look at it. Discuss and imagine its journey to get to you. And then imagine its future journey as it goes inside of you to become you.
3. On Measurement
In America they ask that you stay 6 feet apart. Discuss whose feet these are? Use your own feet to re-define what the foot is. With a string cut what your new 6 feet would look like. (You better not use this new measurement for social distancing!)
4. On Money.
Look around for a new kind of money. This could be acorns, rocks, leaves. Use it in your home.
5. On Time Zones
Discuss what a time zone is. Make different time zones for different rooms in your home.
6. On Distance and Faraway Places
Find the furthest away place you can see from your home. Maybe it's a tree on a hill outside your window. Now imagine a further away place that you cannot see. Maybe it's the Eiffel Tower or California. Learn the direction to this place from your home. Now point to it.
7. On the Moon
When the moon is visible, contemplate it in silence for a good length of time. Don’t discuss with each other what you thought. Keep it a secret.
8. On Letter Writing and Delivery
Sur l'écriture et la livraison d'une lettre
Write a letter to someone who you can walk to. Deliver them the letter.
9. On Story-telling and Movement
Read each page (or chapter) of a story in a different place in your home. Move through your home as you read through the story. If your house is small, even better!
10. On Seeds
Save all the seeds from the fruits and vegetables you eat. When you are outside scatter them around so that they might grow.
01 April 2020
Kate NV
Sunny bedroom session
Surrounded by her machines (and supported by her canine companion of confinement), Kate NV offers us the privilege of this experimental pop live bedroom session specially made for our project Lifetime.
31 March 2020
Jean-Biche
Warm Up Session
The Warm-up Sessions regularly held at Lafayette Anticipations become an online warm-up adapted to confinement for Lifetime!
"30 minutes of physical and mental preparation,
to integrate the artist's reality as much as possible,
and the challenges of its connectivity to the world."
Push the furniture away, increase the volume: it's time to stretch your limbs and your mind!
30 March 2020
Cécile B. Evans
Amos' World
It is a great pleasure to present the work Amos' World made available exclusively for "Lifetime" during the lockdown period in Europe. This television series divided into three episodes centres around the life of the tenants of a allegorical networked building that was intended as an ideal of individual and collective architecture. Failing to fulfil its promises, this building appears inadequate, and its inhabitants slowly take back the control of their existence within it.
“ In times like these, Cécile B. Evans' work Amos’ World seems more present than ever. The interaction of isolation and community, the representation of power relations between individuals and the networks that control them become more and more a reality, but also the glimmer of hope to create something new from scratch seems more relevant than ever. ”
As well as Cecile B. Evans who delivers this message to us:
“The Amos' World series is usually viewed from individual spaces within a larger structure, a fictionalised setting to experience the films "alone together". We now find ourselves in that very predicament, under our own very specific circumstances. I have no advice to give other than to stay at home. This early moment feels right for processing, for feeling in general, and for reaching out to neighbors, family, and friends to see what they want or need. A time also to ask for what you need, so that together we can begin to redefine the terms and conditions we want to exist in the long term ahead.”
27 March 2020
Félicia Atkinson
Inner Sun
"Everyone / Together / Now / Yesterday / Always" are the words that Félicia Atkinson puts on her playlist INNER SUN, specially created for Lifetime.
And to accompany the listening, Felicia Atkinson has selected a few books:
Don Dellilo, White Noise
Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays
John Cage, Journal
Anna Akhmatove, Poésie Complète
Sarah Magenheimer, Beige Poursuite
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poetry
JG Ballard, Vermillion Sands
26 March 2020
Bendik Giske
Live at Funkhaus Berlin
Bendik Giske offers us a magical moment with this live performance specially imagined for our Lifetime project in the heart of the mythical Funkhaus Berlin.
Inspired as much by electronic music as by jazz, these 30 minutes of live offers a moment suspended in time.
The artist also suggests the reading of Ocean Vuong "On earth we're briefly gorgeous" to accompany this confinement as well as Susan Sontag, « Notes on a camp » ; Andrea Lawlor, « Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl » ; Maya Angelou, « I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ».