© Alexandra Sebbag - L’intrusive - costume : Moufle gueulante - glazed clay sculpture - 2024
L'intrusive
L'Intrusive is a hybrid theater piece that addresses a silenced topic, brought to voice and movement by three actors. A conversation between the neocortex, limbic, and reptilian. Three characters expressing themselves within the same body. L'Intrusive in its final form is a cross-disciplinary creation between visual arts, sound, and live performance.
The residency at Théâtre Périscope will be the first residency for the project and will be dedicated to dramaturgical work in collaboration with the playwright of L'Intrusive: Thymios Fountas. We will redefine the overall dramaturgy and then work by domain: the text, the characters, the envisioned performance, the set design, costumes, sound creation, and lighting design.
Credits
Concept, writing, direction Alexandra Sebbag
Set design, accessories, costumes Alexandra Sebbag, Léa Vayrou - Rive, Cee Füllermann, Zoé Corbet
Sound creation Iris Therasse
Actors Sasha Martelli, Olivia Stainer, Alix.ce Bisotto
Dramaturgy Thymios Fountas
Choreographic assistance Ayelen Parolin
Lighting creation research ongoing
External perspectives Virginie Jortay, Rosanna Gangemi, Laure Lapel
Stage management Lola Martins-Coignus
Filming, teaser, photography Romain Vennekens
Alexandra Sebbag
Alexandra Sebbag is a queer, racialized artist, visual artist, and fashion/costume/graphic designer based in Brussels. She develops a personal, performative, sculptural, and sound-based practice for the somato/anthropomorphic language of a fictional living being. Her work politically questions the relationships and conditions of bodies in their vulnerabilities, transformations, and strengths in a societal context disconnected from its minorities. Trained in fashion design, graphic design, and pedagogy, she has taught at various schools such as the École supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre, Saint-Luc Brussels, and the University of Aix-Marseille. In parallel, in the fields of fashion and live arts, she has collaborated on a wide range of works with choreographers (Ayelen Parolin, Jan Martens, Lucinda Childs, Mercedes Dassy), directors (Thymios Fountas, Antoine Laubin, Sanja Mitrovic), filmmakers (Leni Huyghe, Romain Vennekens), creating costumes, accessories, set designs, and textile prints for designers (Cédric Charlier, Arma Cutis).
Artistic approach I am particularly interested in the political dimensions of the body and language. These obsessions permeate all of my work. For several years, I have been pursuing a quest, both intimate, artistic, and intellectual, which could be described as follows: mapping emotions. Through ceramics and other associated media (writing, sound creation, installation/performance), I explore the expression of a sculptural and sensory body. Being able to invest in causes that defend marginalized and vulnerable minorities is essential to my practice. My work is always intended to embody and take a stance within a Queer approach. I scrutinize what the body and language reveal about our conflict zones but also about our shared lived experiences. This approach aims not to resolve these knots but to reveal the disnormalizing practices and singularities they produce, as inventions of languages and experiences in economic, political, epistemological, and cultural realms. Today, in the maturity of my various artistic trajectories, I wish to bring together my work to culminate in the writing, direction, and design of a theater piece.