Premiere 3 December 1997 Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne (Switzerland)
60 minutes
Choreography Gilles Jobin
Music Franz Treichler and The Young Gods
Dancers Ana Pons Carrera / Charmaine Seet (cast 2) Genevieve Byrne (cast 3), Gilles Jobin, Nuria de Ulibarri
Appearance on film Franko B
Film Technician Clive Jenkins
Lighting Daniel Demont
Production Parano Productions (Lausanne, CH)
Co-production Theatre Arsenic (Lausanne, CH), Zuercher Theater Spektakel (Zurich, CH), Maison des Arts (Thonon-Evian, F) and FAR Festival des Arts Vivants (Nyon, CH)
Supports Pro Helvetia, The Arts Council of Switzerland, Loterie Romande, Migors, Corodis, Canton de Vaud and Ville de Lausanne.
A + B = X is a journey through the human mind and the healing of one’s own body. Half-man/half-woman, the bodies speak a strange language that corresponds to nothing but which means so much. Distortions and impositions, the body as a prison, the body as a living art object.
“I am Me and Me is about Me” Franko B.
I continued my work where I left off in my last solo, Only You. Working chronologically, it made sense to start from there. The body as sculpture, the body as speech, the body as meaning, the images generated suggest more than they say. It is up to the viewer to look into his own self in order to give the presented images their true significance. My work is based on the complexity of the human mind and its relationship with the body, a modern vision of the body. I work using nudity, for its power of suggestion, like a costume.
My work deals with the body in the present, I deal with the blending of the sexes, not seen as uniformity but as a source of diversity and richness.
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