ARTIST
Marine Froeliger
www.marinefroeliger.fr
@marine_froeliger
PROPOSED PIECE
Le geste / La parole, 2020
Vinyl 45T limited edition of 200
Marine Froeliger + Janick Deneux
Listen here : https://legestelaparole.bandcamp.com/album/le-geste-la-parole
"Under what conditions can the human scale of the world still be given by our bodies?" - Nicolas Thély in Hyper Geography, Joe Hamilton (Jean Boîte éditions), 2014.
It all started with the desire to mark out, step by step, a little-known Rhineland pagan rite, the Schieweschlawe (a solar pagan festival on the vernal equinox - where flaming wooden discs are thrown at dusk).
To listen to it, to record in images and sounds, the gestures and words that unfold in the Offwiller area, in the Northern Vosges, taking the space and time necessary to apprehend the complex scales and relationships that emerge.
Co-created with Offwiller residents and students from Diemeringen secondary school, Échelle / Massstab / Scala explores this intangible heritage, once common to the whole Rhine basin area (lux/fr/all/suisse/ita...), and proposes a visual reading of this moment that connects (to others, to ancestors, to spaces, to times, to the earthly and the celestial).