FOR EVERY ONE STUCK CHASING THE CLOCK at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines

By Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau | Theatre – Performance | Presented in English

Video Interview with Jacqueline van de Geer- Interprete

Four characters are stuck in a room and in a time loop set by the limitations that are the result of the chronic illness they have in common. Semi-resigned to their predicament, they decide to make their lived experiences legible by putting on a show, in the hopes that this will end up breaking the rut they are stuck in. The four characters, the Artist, the Timekeeper, the Cellophane, and the Clown—collectively negotiate with their endeavour, challenging the differences that set them apart.

Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are installation artists who work across video, performance, sculpture, sound, text, and photography. Their collaborative practice is rooted in the theatrical and the choreographic and examines the slippery and complex relationships between bodies and inanimate objects. These subjects are examined through the lens of chronic illness. They are based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and have worked collaboratively since 2000. They have exhibited widely, notably at the Esker Foundation, Calgary; the Center for Books and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Kunsthalle Wien; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Whitechapel Project Space, London; the University of Texas, Austin; the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto.

Lum and Desranleau are also known on the international music scene as co-founders of the avant-rock group AIDS Wolf, for whom they also produced award-winning concert posters under the name Séripop. Their work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Montréal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

Concept, text, set design, choreography Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau 

Performers Lior Maharjan, Michael Martini, Jacqueline van de Geer and Maxine Segalowitz

Dramaturgy Alexis O’Hara

Choreography Maxine Segalowitz

Lighting design Nien Tzu Weng 

Costumes Olga Abeleva 

Diffusion La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines 

Presented as part of WinterWorks in collaboration with Centaur Theatre

Financial support Koyama Provides, Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec