Sarah Vermande
Guest at Moviment
Trained in acting in London and translation in Paris, Sarah Vermande enjoys giving herself up to the words of others.
She explored the world of puppet theatre with the Paname Pilotis and Rodéo Théâtre companies, and has a particular interest in the theatre of objects. As a performer, she works on a regular basis with artist Alexandra Loewe (600’’, Akiko, 1.7 square meter).
During the event Private View by Claude Closky (FIAC 2011), she met Yves Lefebvre and joined the "second generation" staging the performances of Guy de Cointet with Huzo Lumnst, followed by Comme il est blond! (ou de toutes les couleurs), My father’s Diary, Two Drawings, Raymond Roussel and Going to the Market.
She contributed to the translation for the French publication of de Cointet’s The Complete Plays.
Courtesy Guy de Cointet Society and Air de Paris, Romainville. © Photo : Manuel Fuentes
About Guy de Cointet
Theater Performances, meetings
Born in Paris in 1934, Guy de Cointet started by producing a number of sculptural paintings on the periphery of the New Realism movement while working as a fashion illustrator. In 1968, now living in Los Angeles and working as an assistant to the artist Larry Bell, de Cointet started to produce paintings, drawings and publications. From 1973, some of his compositions of letters and symbols began to feature as decorative elements in performances written and staged by the artist, the storylines of which combined comedy and drama, and often involved having to “decipher” their seemingly unintelligible patterns.
The Centre Pompidou holds various archives of this key figure in conceptual and performance art, as well as some props he designed for his plays. As part of Moviment, an evening event will be held in a number of stages, during which these plays will be presented and then carried on to consider their significance today.
The performance Going to the Market, featuring Sarah Vermande, explores the silences in the archives of the life of Guy de Cointet. A reading by the researcher Marilou Thiébault turns the spotlight on some of the archives held in the Kandinsky Library. Actresses Sarah Vermande and Violeta Sanchez, with input from the artist Hugues de Cointet – adviser on behalf of the Guy de Cointet Society – question the meaning of interpreting his works today and the fate of his sets. The evening concludes with a special screening of the show Tell Me, filmed at the Centre Pompidou in 2013.
Friday, 5 May 2023
