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FEMME HOMARD

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​FEMME HOMARD
​Toward a hydroacoustic ecology of the polluted body
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​Pour une écologie hydroacoustique du corps pollué
論受污染身體的水聲生態學
FEMME HOMARD is a performance that explores how water, altered by human activities, transforms bodies and sounds.
Using a real recording of shrimp caught at sea—a crackling sound revealing constrained agitation—the piece examines the status of sound as a trace of non-human life subjected to ecological pressures.
The performing body becomes a resonant medium: burdened, slowed down, and hindered by a trail of waste, it makes the circulation of pollution perceptible—from the soil to the oceans, until it becomes inscribed in the flesh.
Between Dadaist aesthetics and the slowness of tai chi, FEMME HOMARD offers a displaced way of listening:
no longer hearing to understand, but hearing what persists, what resists, what can no longer disappear.
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FEMME HOMARD est une performance qui explore la manière dont l’eau, altérée par les activités humaines, transforme les corps et les sons.
À partir d’un enregistrement réel de crevettes capturées en mer — un crépitement révélant une agitation contrainte — la pièce interroge le statut du son comme trace du vivant non-humain soumis à des pressions écologiques.
Le corps performatif devient un milieu de résonance : chargé, ralenti, entravé par une traîne de déchets, il rend perceptible la circulation des pollutions, des sols aux océans, jusqu’à leur inscription dans la chair.
Entre esthétique dadaïste et lenteur du tai-chi, FEMME HOMARD propose une écoute déplacée :
non plus entendre pour comprendre, mais entendre ce qui persiste, ce qui résiste, ce qui ne peut plus disparaître.
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《龍蝦女》是一場探索水體如何在人類活動的干擾下,轉化身體與聲音的表演。
作品以實際錄製的海中捕獲蝦類的聲音為起點——那噼啪聲揭示了受限的躁動——藉此探討聲音作為非人類生命痕跡的地位,以及這些生命如何承受生態壓力。
表演者的身體化身為共鳴的載體:沉重、遲緩、被一串垃圾所絆住,它讓人感知到污染從土壤流向海洋,最終銘刻於血肉之軀的循環。
介於達達主義美學與太極的緩慢節奏之間,《龍蝦女》提出了一種「移位」的聆聽方式:
不再為了理解而聽,而是傾聽那些持續存在、頑強抵抗、且再也無法消逝之物。

FEMME HOMARD
​After the Banquet of the Sea
海の晩餐のあとで
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A hybrid woman-lobster at an empty dinner table.

​FEMME HOMARD /​After the Banquet of the Sea / 海の晩餐のあとで

is a live performance exploring the relationship between appetite, luxury, marine life, and ecological exhaustion.
 
A hybrid figure — half woman, half lobster — emerges as if returning from the sea after centuries of being consumed, desired, displayed, and commodified.
The lobster, once considered poor food and later transformed into a symbol of wealth and celebration, becomes here a witness. Through the body, it asks:
  • What does it mean to eat the living?
  • How does desire transform ecosystems?
  • What remains after the feast?
  • Can celebration exist without destruction?
The performance combines movement, costume, silence, absurd gestures of service, and an immersive sound environment made from underwater recordings including snapping shrimp sounds from Cijin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
A table may be present, prepared but empty.
The banquet has already happened.
Or has not yet begun.
The audience is invited not only to watch, but to confront their own place within systems of consumption.
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FEMME HOMARD approaches food not as product, but as relationship:
  • food as desire
  • food as violence
  • food as memory
  • food as class symbol
  • food as ecological threshold
  • food as ritual gathering
The project creates a poetic and unsettling bridge between gastronomy and extinction.

​A creature returns from the sea carrying the memory of our hunger.
​femme_homard_après_le_banquet_de_la_mer_海の晩餐のあとで.pdf
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