Carole Douillard
Biography
Carole Douillard (1971, France) works with performance. She is most often described as “using her body as a sculpture” and also produces representations, such as drawings and photography, that explore mental states and patterns relating to her artistic practice. Douillard lectures and participates in research projects and publications around themes of performance and the situation of the body in public and institutional spaces. She has presented her work and public commissions both in exterior public spaces, art institutions and theatre spaces.
Essay
Manuel Pelmuš trained as a choreographer.
He lives and works between Oslo and Bucharest. His work reflects on the experience economy, production values, strategies of disappearance and the politics of visibility in our media-driven society.
In this essay, he interprets Carole Douillard’s The Viewers and its potential as a political act.
Read the essay here:
WHAT DO THE VIEWERS SEE?