Resting Voices: a Library in Pieces is an oral library that can be experienced lying down. It takes the form of a series of listening sessions, or an installation designed to travel into libraries, 4 Pillow Books.

Drawn from the archive of Institute of Rest(s), voices and texts are laid out au ras du sol – at ground level- sampled, dispersed, made available. Poets’ voices, scores for bodies that may or may not show up, all lie down on the floor.  The sessions invest in the pleasure of listening detached from the necessity to arrive anywhere, asking what shape the body needs to take, whether words can slide under the skin rather than bounce off it. Bien lire n’est pas lire: c’est autre chose (misquoting Laura Vazquez).

Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces
Conceived and orchestrated by Alix Eynaudi
Contributions recorded and edited by Paul Kotal
Funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in coproduction with boîte de production– Verein für zeitgenössischen Tanz und zeitgenössische Installationen
in partnership with Tanzquartier Wien
Publication-Menu by Julia Müllner
Drawings by Ari Ban
Webpage by Luis Pisetta Ravanelli
Research Assistant Alice Gratet (La Manufacture – HES-SO)
Special thanks: Paula Caspão (always), Christina Gillinger, Yvane Chapuis, Elodie Brunner and the whole team of La Manufacture for the unwavering support throughout and to REAKTOR for hosting some of the recordings.

With the voices of
Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Alix Eynaudi, Ari Ban, Frida Robles, Julia Müllner, Kenneth Constance Loe, Lau Lukkarila, Miriam Stoney, Mzamo Nondlwana, Serena Lee, Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh

And the authors
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anne Boyer, Christina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, Emma Bigé, Fahima Ife, Haytham El-Wardani, Ibtisam Azem, Jenny Odell, Joshua Idehen, Kathleen Stewart, Krista Tippett, Lauren Berlant, Marouane Bakhti, Mirene Arsanios, Noelle Kocot, Ocean Vuong, Pamela Sneed, Saidiya Hartman, Shivangi Maryam Raj, Fred Moten, Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Vinciane Despret

 

6.10 at La Manufacture, Lausanne, in the frame of Les Rencontres de la Recherche organised by the research department.

24.10 + 4.12 at Tanzquartier Wien

to come: Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt