{"id":2523,"date":"2014-06-02T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2021-10-03T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T19:15:42","slug":"marche-avec-walk-with-bryan-mtembu-betty-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/2014\/06\/marche-avec-walk-with-bryan-mtembu-betty-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Marche avec \/ walk with Bryan Mtembu (Betty Street)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Auteurs \/ Authors : Bryan Mtembu,\u00a0Floriane Jan, Pauline Lepeu, Michelle Monareng, M\u00e9gane Mace, Irene Tchernooutsan, Gr\u00e9goire Zab\u00e9, Natasha Christopher,\u00a0Christian Mukenge<\/p>\n

Description : enqu\u00eate autour du personnage qui a donn\u00e9 son nom \u00e0 la rue<\/p>\n

Axes de recherche \/ Research axes (Play\/Urban)\u00a0 :\u00a0People as infrastructure,\u00a0Game \/ Play<\/p>\n

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In situ (may include different times > time 1, time 2, time 3, etc..)\/ peut inclure diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9tapes > Temps 1, Temps 2,Temps 3, etc..<\/b><\/p>\n

Medium : corps<\/p>\n

Genre :\u00a0ballade<\/p>\n

Concept : Rep\u00e9rer des lieux suceptibles de laisser appara\u00eetre une histoire<\/p>\n

Participants :\u00a0Bryan Mtembu,\u00a0Floriane Jan, Pauline Lepeu, Michelle Monareng, M\u00e9gane Mace, Irene Tchernooutsan, Gr\u00e9goire Zab\u00e9, Natasha Christopher,\u00a0Christian Mukenge<\/p>\n

Dur\u00e9e \/ Duration : Une apr\u00e8s midi<\/p>\n

Ville \/ City : Betty Street, Joburg<\/p>\n

Questions : Comment insuffler de la fiction dans un lieu ? Comment entrer en contact avec les habitants du quartier?<\/p>\n

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Exhibit<\/b><\/p>\n

Medium : corps, table, cam\u00e9ra, moniteur<\/p>\n

Genre : performance film\u00e9e puis diffus\u00e9e sur moniteur<\/p>\n

Concept : reproduire la ballade sur Betty Street autour de la table, mettre en avant la d\u00e9marche adopt\u00e9e<\/p>\n

Participants :\u00a0Floriane Jan, Pauline Lepeu, Michelle Monareng, M\u00e9gane Mace, Irene Tchernooutsan, Gr\u00e9goire Zab\u00e9, Natasha Christopher,\u00a0Christian Mukenge<\/p>\n

Dur\u00e9e \/ Duration : 20 minutes<\/p>\n

Ville \/ City : Vansa, Joburg<\/p>\n

Date : 5 septembre 2012<\/p>\n

Questions : Comment s\u2019approprier un lieu?<\/p>\n

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Analyse critique \/ Critical analysis : Impossible d\u2019y retourner une deuxi\u00e8me fois (recommandation des \u00e9tudiants sud africains) pourtant une deuxi\u00e8me visite aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 appr\u00e9ciable pour pousser le projet.<\/p>\n

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Protocoles (collectif) d\u2019action \/ (collective) Action protocols : marcher, observer et poser des questions aux habitants<\/p>\n

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R\u00e9cit d\u2019Ir\u00e8ne<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the day, as the city start to be inundated with sun, we all \u00abplayers\u00bb have to join the king kong\u2019building situated in the new Doornfontein area.<\/p>\n

Facing north, this place stays cold and humid. This micro-climate is the stage for our discussions in group and meetings with artists and today Sello Pesa and his dancers are coming.<\/p>\n

Brian, one of Selo\u2019dancer is our \u00abgodfather\u00bb. In group, We start to talk\u00a0 about the dance performance that we saw two days ago in a park. How they were ancored in the context. How they appear and disappear. We also talk about them work on the ground. They often dance at two millimetres distance from the grass and the sand remembering the attitudes of the other nameless passer-by having rest in the park.<\/p>\n

So, as a tribute to this dance performance, we choose this two words \u00abappear and disappear\u00bb.<\/p>\n

We start to play.<\/p>\n

In one\u2019hat, we collect all the words. An innocent hand has to dig in and with blind eye and chose two worlds.<\/p>\n

For our team, the two selected words are \u00abincident\u00bb and \u00abdeath dance\u00bb. Almost the exact opposit of our primary reflexions.<\/p>\n

Brian has to lead us in a place of his choice. It\u2019s not far, thought we still have to get there by car.<\/p>\n

We park the car at the beginning of Betty\u2019s street.<\/p>\n

We are close from Art\u2019s and main. This place is the fact of one building radiating over two streets.No more. It\u2019s totally occupied by a branch of gallery and tendances shop. Cross the street and you will find yourself into an other dimension. Each street is an new dimension.<\/p>\n

As we are walking further, people start to look at us. A bunch of whites and blacks\u00a0 students wandering in this place is not a usual thing. Betty\u2019s street ends up at Woluter street.<\/p>\n

This street has a bipolar aspect. One side is occupied by man. The other by woman. Peolple are looking at us. Some girls of the team would tell me later how unconfortable this situation was for them. Honestly, I didn\u2019t felt any men\u2019look on me. I just felt as a total stranger. A feeling without any kind of nuances.<\/p>\n

Our ballad is rythmed by some shops, old garages and laundery. Some chimicals are spread in the street, giving nice colours to the ground.<\/p>\n

There are deads rats.There is old shirts. Old skirt. Old trouser. God, it feels like home. Except for the rat. As we are walking, we all have in mind this two words: Incident and death dance. They are giving to our tour a morbide connotation. There is some red and white\u00a0 tape, like the one the police is using, displayed on the ground, surrounding a manhole.<\/p>\n

We need to talk. We need to find a place where we can sit. There is a park. A peacefull place.<\/p>\n

We make a link between Alexandra and Betty. Who is betty? Why does this street bear her name? Is betty one of the hidden women living in this place?<\/p>\n

Her absence is everywhere.<\/p>\n

Somehow a police investigation starts to take place in our mind.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s ask \u00abwho is Betty?\u00bbMaybe city-dwellers knows about it.<\/p>\n

Easy to say. The reality is that the women are not answering to our question; The only man who is incline to speak is slightly drunk.<\/p>\n

We collect some clothes, somes records, some photos. Trying to compose a character.<\/p>\n

One of the streets we are walking in ends up in a strange public park.<\/p>\n

The place is quiet. We are silent. We are in circle.<\/p>\n

We are staring at the ground. People start to look at us. They stop. We stare at the ground. We start to put on the floor, one by one all the objects that we found thinking about Betty. A credit card, a letter, a dress\u2026We break the circle.<\/p>\n

After 10 minutes, we leave the place without betty\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n

At Vansa\u2019 s we re-enact this death dance around the table. Not to far not to close. Just the way we felt about the space.Divided, looked-at, consciousness.<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e9goire\u2019s photos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t