ALEXANDRE PÉRIGOT

Antrepo No.3

Alexandre Périgot was born in 1959 in France, lives in Paris. His installations and videos demand the involvement of the viewer to create a sphere of interaction. Alexandre Périgot also explores the world of music and dance through installations or performances. In 2003 he showed the billboard piece “Radio Popeye” at the Venice Biennale. Prior to that he showed “Fanclubbing” in the exhibition “Let’s Entertain” (2000-2001). His recent solo shows have been presented, among other places, at MAMCO in Geneva in 2002 and at FRAC Languedoc Rousillon. In 2001 he showed “Maison Témoin (Maison Dalida)” at the Pompidou Centre. In summer 2004, he prepared an exhibition at Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille with a new production of “Maison Témoin (Maison d’Elvis)” – Graceland and in 2006, “Palais Popeye” at La Criée in Rennes, the Asian version of “Elvis House” at the Land Foundation in Chiangmai. His last solo exhibition “Pipedream” at Tramway in Glasgow started on july 5th 2007.

Soundborders

“Soundborders” brings together music groups from Estonia, Russia, Czech Republic, Tuva, Belarus, Moldova, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Georgia, Armenia, Croatia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Albania, Macedonia, Lithuania, Serbia, Bosnia and Turkey.

Welcome to Border Palace to push back the borders of Europe. In a maze of parts of mobile partitions a soundtrack composed by Simon Fisher Turner starting from musical extracts of groups from the countries of the East diffuses. On the walls, the names of the groups are assembled and mixed. “Soundborders” redraws a hypothetical border. The choice of the groups and the countries is not exhaustive, it wants to be the reflection of original musical options, of a musical scene which has at most a past of fifteen years. The revolutions were marked by their sound dimension, Latvia even entitled theirs the ‘singing revolution’. Even though rock'n'roll dominated for a long time, some of its actors quickly forsook their instruments for the laptop or platinums, for industrialist music or hip hop, techno or rap. With soundborders it is a question of supporting marginal practices so that they reach us not like exotic expressions but like the compost of our common cultures.

Soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner
Poster design by Jocelyn Cottencin
Soundborders music recorded at Tramway, Glasgow, July 2007.