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My name is Manon de Pauw. I'm a visual artist.
I work with colour, I work with light,
and I work with what I call the performed image.
So there's always a sense of movement or a sense of
someone behind the image that's making the image happen.
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Merging a video with our performing arts is very
it is a challenge because it's not always happy
result, and I'm always very sensitive about the
interaction between physical beings on a stage,
their shadow, the colour, the image,
and that there's a balance.
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Sometimes there's a predominance of the image
when then there's a balance and the body comes out
and we make sure that the dancers or the actors
have their own agency.
So it's a question of giving ourselves time to experiment.
And putting aside this
the material that you feel that there's too much
tension between the projected image and what's going on.
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I think the biggest difficulty in the process is that
we each come from a specific background.
I'm from the visual arts.
This is my language, this is my home.
And Pierre-Marc comes from dance.
We all have our specific backgrounds.
So it's the matter of
working on the boundaries between the disciplines.
And sometimes, you know, when you're just like
you're more tired on that day
and you just don't want to make that effort, you know.
It's like, OK, I just want to do this.
Can we just do this?
And the other person says, well, I had another idea, you know?
[laughter]
So and then sometimes it's just it just flows, you know.
He works on something. I work on something.
We put it together and it works. It's just magic.
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So I don't really have, like, a dream collaboration.
I think my dream is just to have more time to create.
Merging my teaching, my life as an artist,
my life as a researcher.
So I think my dream is just to have more
coherence between all my different project,
because it's very, very multiple right now.
But I feel like it's going in one direction.
But as an artist, I don't think I have like
one, like, big, big project.
I think it's always a big, big project for me.
[laughter]
That's my life.
[laughter]
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