South Winds
(2002)
Audio work published as solo CD, Oral, Québec,
2003.
First presented as an installation at Trou,
solo survey exhibit at Galerie
de l'UQAM. 0ctober 20 to November 25, 2006.
First performed at VOLT-AA December 4 2002. series curated by Eric Mattson for
Oral. Excerpt from live recording published on audio
compilation VOLT-AA
2xCD.
Excerpt of the performance presented at Gallery 101,
Ottawa, January 2003.
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(South Winds, installation, Galerie de l'UQAM. Photo: Denis Farley)
South Winds presents the results of a recording session Christof
Migone undertook with Le Petomane (Joseph Pujol 1857-1945). Le Petomane
performed his fart fantasia at the Moulin Rouge in Paris where,
to much acclaim, he would imitate musical instruments and with his
'second mouth' hum recognisable tunes. For South Winds, Le Petomane
and Migone sought to explore these somatic winds as a response to
Artaud's ontological formulation: "the depth of my being is
the volume of my body."
Both Artaud and Pujol were brought up in Marseilles, city in the
path of the infamous Mistral, a wind which "has the ill-natured
habit of scattering roof tiles about, knocking down chimneys, blowing
small children into canals, tumbling walls onto the unsuspecting
natives." South Winds has the same impetuous effect, it confirms
that the body is a noisy place. The body emits and transmits, it
cannot contain itself. South Winds is an essay on the flatulent
and the incontinent.
(South Winds, live, VOLT-AA. Photo: Eric Mattson)
mp3s
(320 kbps)
01. notus (5:07)
02. anemos (3:47)
03. ruach (2:34)
04. ostria (1:51)
05. nalpas (7:41)
06. mistral (2:57)
07. cierzo (3:14)
08. foen (5:53)
09. pujol (16:05)
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