Misunderstanding is a way to reveal and to create other realities: to hear and imagine something other; to interpret differently; to juxtapose perceptions; to resist to what is given or said; to build up parallel temporalities. It is the stakes of poetry, of counterpoint, of resistance, of uncertainty, of alternatives and of fictions. Marcos & Pauline think of misunderstandings in this project as something to be considered, something valuable. They see it both as a visual & choreographic tool more then a subject of work.

What if the misunderstanding is the origin, the starting point of the project? The mechanism by which we produce and create? And that defines situations and relationships to work with?

Marcos Simoes & Pauline Brun were joined in this project by a fortunate misunderstanding and have decided to embrace it by turning it into the tool and the purpose that ties us in this collaboration.

The project Tie-Tool starts from these questions and will be developed into the form of a performance exhibition or an exhibited performance.

Marcos Simoes (PT/BE)

If the body is the material of the work of Marcos Simoes , in his performances he uses different mediums: sound, video, drawing, image, objects and textile to create situations and contexts where he explores modes of relation and communication other than language to question ways of thinking and doing. What are the spaces in between the things? Between sensations and language? How to express the inexpressible? Thinking the artist as a medium, a catalyser, Marcos performances are rites of relations, in the form of hybrid objects between the visual and the performative. It is in the power of relating things that change and transformation can occur.

Pauline Brun (FR)

Choreographer, performer and visual artist, Pauline Brun plays with contexts and mediums, exploring the body with self-mockery and at the edge of the absurd. Trained at the Nice Conservatory, the Villa Arson, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and ex.e.r.ce at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, she deploys proposals between visual art and choreography.

As a performer or scenographer, she collaborates with Fanny De Chaillé and Philippe Ramette, Alain Buffard (reconstruction of Mauvais Genre), Pol Pi, Jule Flierl, Nina Santes, Adaline Anobile, Jonas Chéreau, Antoine Cegarra …