Seven projects between fields and forests. Seven artistic projects that are so many variations on the landscape. 


Invited by Caroline Barneaud (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne) and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Emilie Rousset proposes one of the seven steps of an artistic journey between fields and forests. This European project is recreated in-situ in Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain.

For Shared Landscapes, Émilie Rousset has gathered the words of nature specialists—advocacy officers, farmers, bio-acousticians, etc.— which human performers and a machine re-enact in front of the audience. Those composite visions invite us to probe the links between science, technology, economics, and the landscape.



 “You like to work on a documentary material based on interviews you’ve conducted. Who are the specialists you met for Paysages partagés, and how are their words grafted onto the landscape?“


I choose people who, because of their job or their experience, have a specific area of expertise, in order to discover worlds I didn’t know, vocabularies I’m unfamiliar with. 

For “Paysages partagés”, I looked into different ways of perceiving and using the landscape. Through the eyes of the director of a federation of environmental NGOs who specialises in the Common Agricultural Policy, we watch how agricultural, viticultural, or forest machinery works, and we listen to ecosystems with the ears of a bio-acoustician. I like it when theatre opens up different ways to access reality and creates a shift in our understanding. I also like to play on the shift from reality to its representation with a playful back-and-forth. Those interviews conducted in an office in Brussels or in a university lab are then performed in the open by actors while a farmer narrates and demonstrates his machine. Those composite visions invite us to probe the links between science, technology, economics, and the landscape.

(Emilie Rousset for the Festival d’Avignon)

Design and curation Caroline Barneaud, Stefan Kaegi

With pieces by Chiara Bersani et Marco D’Agostin, El Conde de Torrefiel, Sofia Dias et Vítor Roriz, Begüm Erciyas et Daniel Kötter, Stefan Kaegi, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Émilie Rousset
With local actors and participants  
Production and coordination Isabelle Campiche (théâtre Vidy-Lausanne) and Chloé Ferro (Rimini Protokoll)
Artistic assistant Giulia Rumasuglia 
Technical manager Guillaume Zemor 
Polyvalent technician Xavier De Marcellis
Video technicians Nicolas Gerlier, Victor Hunziker 
Sound technicians Janyves Coïc, Charlotte Constant, Marc Pieussergues
Props Mathieu Dorsaz
Costumes Machteld Vis 
With the teams of the Vidy-Lausanne Theater

For Emilie Rousset’s piece

Conception, writing, directing Emilie Rousset 
Dramaturgy support Elise Simonet 
In Lausanne with Jean-Luc Chollet, Joëlle Fontannaz and Mathieu Ziegler
In Avignon with Corentin Combe, Thomas Gonzalez, Emmanuelle Lafon

Texts

Interview with Faustine Bas-Defossez (environment, health and nature director at the European Enverionmental Bureau (EEB)) realized by Emilie Rousset in mars 2023
Interview with Fanny Rybak (researcher in ethology and bio-acoustics) realized by Emilie Rousset in mars 2023
Interview with Jean-Luc Chollet (retire farmer) realized by Emilie Rousset in may 2023 at Lausanne
In Avignon with Corentin Combes
In Berlin with Carlo Horn