The Specialists is a performing installation conceived for high traffic areas, inside or outside. Five actors reproduce for the mic the specialists’ words, which the audience hears live on headphones.
 

These words are sourced from interviews (philosopher, sailor, archaeologist, forger …) which change each time, relevant to where the piece is being performed. What discourse is possible given the juxtaposition of different levels of knowledge around one subject, one theme? How does this subject traverse discourses and undergo metamorphosis? How is a thought constructed, how does it move from the mouth of the person interviewed into that of the actors and into the ears of the spectators?

This is the experience offered by The Specialists through a simple installation in which five actors perform original and multiplel visions. Each actor faces five audience members who are wearing headphones. And the spectators move from one thought to another, building for themselves their own critical space for reflection.

Conception, mise en scène Émilie Rousset 
Dramaturgie, montage des interviews Maya Boquet
Sound Romain Vuillet

Avec (depuis 2014) : Véronique Alain, Hélène Bressiant, Frédéric Danos, Suzanne Dubois, Duncan Evennou, Pierre Jouan, Emmanuelle Lafon, Pierre Laneyrie, Olivier Normand, Perle Palombe, Julia Perazzini, Gianfraco Poddighe, Thierry Raynaud, Loïc Renard, Anne Steffens, Grégoire Tachnakian, Manuel Vallade, Eva Zinc

Production Cie John Corporation.
Coproduction Centre Pompidou-Metz ; Le Theatre de Lorient - Centre Dramatique National ; Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Monumenta ; Le MAC VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne ; Le Quai - CDN Angers pays de la Loire ; Le POC d’Alfortville ; La Villette Paris ; L’avant-Scène Cognac; Festival de la Cité Lausanne. 

With the support of the Ministry of Culture - Drac Ile-de-France in the framework of the re-staging grant.

Spectacle créé en 2014 au Grand Palais pour Monumenta (Ilya et Emilia Kabakov) avec la Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Photographies
© Philippe Lebruman