Creation 2015
What fate for our leftovers and our abandoned people?
Do Not Clean is a multimedia show. Created as a walkabout, it is punctuated with testimonies and fragments of life from people on the margins of society. These portraits are presented to the audience through sounds and images broadcast by apparatuses integrated into everyday objects. Performers operate these broadcasting tools and deliver the words of those we seek to push away. In opposition to the concealment and interment stands a human and sensitive reality, made of alternative approaches which together create a united front where the castaways survive with dignity.
Our society produces waste in order to function; This waste can be pure garbage but also sometimes of a human nature, with people being left aside for either economic or social reasons. Under this general pressure, a lot of people become rejected by society, they are outcast. When recycling, upcycling or reuse are commonly accepted and even seen as indispensable for general waste, these notions don’t seem to apply so much when it comes to human beings.
Outcast people are hardly considered and very rarely manage to make it back into society. They are forced to develop new organizations. This search for survival creates situations and experiences that generate the construction of parallel systems, producing innovation and alternatives that could become resources to think differently about our society.
Faced with this strategy of making disappear or burying, whether it be waste treatment or our society’s dysfunctions, we are keen to explore these places where refuse are re-born. With Do Not Clean, the company will share new ways of upcycling, recycling and waste upgrade that individuals and outcast groups explore in order to survive the dominant system. The Other becomes a source wealth and the Relationship a resource.
Creation process
Do Not Clean has been the new creation of KompleX KapharnaüM in 2015, after Figures Libres in 2012.
The creative process began in 2013 at the Invites de Villeurbanne with various experiments in the collection of intimate waste and its sorting as well as the experimental reprocessing of waste. The filming that shapes and feeds the show took place in different French cities, Burkina Faso and Nepal for about 20 months.
Shooting, editing of images and construction of broadcasting devices were completed in spring 2015.
Crew
Balyam Ballabéni, Gilles Gallet, Jérémie Forge, Katia Mozet, Magalie Rastello, Marie-Charlotte Barriquand, Mathieu Monnot, Nicolas Thiry, Olivier Radisson, Pierre Duforeau, Pierre Hoezelle, Richard Fontaine, Thomas Bohl, Vincent Muteau
Residencies and co-productions
Alliance Française of Katmandou
Art’R, Lieu de fabrique itinérant pour les arts de la rue, Paris et Ile-de-France
Avataria, Saint-Etienne
Atelier 231, CNAR, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Les Ateliers Frappaz - National centre for street arts and public space, Villeurbanne
Furies, Châlons-en-Champagne
L’Abattoir, CNAR, Chalon-sur-Saône
Le Boulon, CNAR, Vieux-Condé
Le Parapluie, International Centre of Artistic Creation, Aurillac
Lieux Publics, National centre for street arts and public space, Marseille
pOlau, Urban arts centre, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
Supports
Ministry of Culture and Communication – DGCA
Region Rhône-Alpes - Fonds SCAN and Fiacre International mobility
Tour dates
2017
30 July and 1st August / Graz – Austria / Festival La Strada
23 and 24 June / Amiens / Festival La Rue est à Amiens
2016
9 and 10 September / Angers / Les Accroche-Coeurs
29 and 30 April / Vieux Condé (59) / Les Turbulentes, organized by le Boulon, Centre National des Arts de la Rue
14 and 15 May/ Detmold – Germany / Europäisches Strassentheater
2015
24 and 25 September / Paris / Art'R ‐ Lieu de Fabrique Itinérant pour les arts de la rue, in association with Le Moulin Fondu, CNAR de Noisy-le-Sec
23, 24 and 25 July / Chalon sur Saône / Chalon dans la rue
10 July / Carbonne (31) / Pronomade(s), Centre National des Arts de la Rue
5 June / Châlons-en-Champagne / Festival Furies (Premiere)
22 and 23 May / Saint-Etienne / Festival Avatarium, au puits Couriot, Musée de la Mine in Saint-Etienne (public general rehearsal)
13 May / Martigues / in cooperation with Lieux publics, Centre National des Arts de la Rue (public general rehearsal)
