Clément Layes / Public in Private:
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Why do we want things? For many years, Clément Layes’ work structured itself around the notion of materiality and agency. In a stage design recycled from performances of the last decade, he looks into the things that unwillingly accompany a given action; focusing on pollution, waste and destruction. Strangely, it seems that these so-called “byproducts” of our actions have, in their significance, outperformed the actions themselves. Through the construction of a two-sided character, Layes explores different perspectives within the realm of ecology.
PERFORMANCE, CONCEPT Clément Layes MUSIC Steve Heather STAGE Clément Layes, Jonas Maria Droste LIGHT Ruth Waldeyer PRODUCTION Joseph Wegmann
A production by Clément Layes / Public in Private. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe - Basic Funding. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung.
CLÉMENT LAYES lives and works as a choreographer and performer in Berlin since 2008. At the interface of choreography, visual arts and philosophy, his works emerge from observations of the everyday life. His performances are shown internationally. Recently: Der grüne Stuhl (2012), Things that surround us (2012), Dreamed Apparatus (2014), Title (2015), The Eternal Return (2017) and ONON (2019).
The company PUBLIC IN PRIVATE, founded by Clément Layes and Jasna Vinovrski in Berlin in 2008, investigates, reflects and questions social, political and cultural structures in its artistic works with the aim of expanding the boundaries and understanding of dance as an art form in a collaborative approach and reflecting on its media conditions.