Blue Remix - a journey through the skin

Blue Remix - a journey through the skin by Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland is an hour-long performative installation of thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing.

Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council 
in collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi presents
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin 
an hour-long performative installation by
Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland 
on Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 7:30 pm 
at Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Entry is open to all
Brief 
Blue Remix is a journey through the skin – an hour-long motionless performance of Yann Marussich in a transparent container. Through thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing, the artist creates a controlled biochemical choreography of methylene blue, which progressively seeps out of all the orifices in his body; from eyes, mouth and nose to eventually the pores in his skin. This way, Marussich opened the paths between the inside and the outside world - secret passages from the unconscious, straight to the conscious. The performer’s outer immobility draws the spectators’ attention towards the contrasting continuous inner movement of the body. Marussich presents universal themes of the body by externalizing the internal, through the permeable membrane of the skin. The sounds have also been taken from the inside of the performer’s body and remixed by a local musician for the performance.
Each time the spectacle is performed, a different (local) musician accompanies Yann. This exceptional - unique and one-time - confrontation of a musician with a performance establishes a new relation between the sound and the created image. The spontaneous meeting of two artists brings an element of risk and uniqueness to the event, as if the music explored the spectacle over and over again and depicted new ways of perception.
Yann Marussich 
Born in 1966, Yann Marussich, a unique character in contemporary dance, delivers performances which have a true impact on the audience. In parallel he evolves from 1993 to 2000 in the field of artistic programmation as a director of the « Théâtre de l’Usine » (Geneva) where he programs almost excusivelly contemporary dance and more specifically new forms of expression. He is the founder of the ADC Studio (Geneva) created in 1993. In 2001, Yann Marussich choreographed Bleu Provisoire, his first completely immobile piece. Today he is moving towards solo, performance and Body-art which he sees as genres as themselves.
At present, Yann is on a residency in India. The Residency has been supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.