L'amour fou
Multimedijalni projekt

« To što sam volio, bez obzira jesam li sačuvao ili nisam – voljet ću uvijek.»
A. Breton L'amour fou

Autori/izvođači_ Boris i Natasha Kadin
Video/animacija_ Tihana Mandušić
Produkcija_ Mavena-36 njezinih čuda, Alliance Francaise de Split
Praizvedba_ 2.lipnja 2007 Kazalište lutaka Split u sklopu
Dana francuske kulture u Splitu

Opis projekta_
Multimedijalni projekt «L'amour fou» rađen je po dvama djelima začetnika nadrealizma Andre Bretona; «Nadja» (1928) i «Luda ljubav» (1937). Priča je to o ženi koja je zaista postojala i koja je, nakon kratke ali burne avanture s vođom nadrealističkog pokreta, završila u umobolnici do kraja života, a on roman koji tada piše naziva njezinim imenom «nade nadstvarnog».

Breton, naime, biva zapanjen vidovitošću, vizijama, zaigranim i nepokorivim duhom te lijepe, mlade i krhke žene. Divi se toj «lutajućoj duši»-kako Nadja samu sebe naziva, toj nadrealnoj ženi-mediju, čarobnici kadroj da usredotoči na sebe nadrealističku težnju za čudesnim. Udivljenje što ga Breton gaji prema toj «najjadnijoj od svih žena i od svih najslabije branjenoj» ipak nije bilo dovoljno da on može do kraja prihvatiti i ljubiti jedino biće koje utjelovljuje smisao njegove potrage. Ovaj projekt prikazuje kraj te ljubavne priče, odnosno ženu zatvorenu u četiri zida umobolnice i smještenu tamo do smrti, koja još uvijek nalazi smisao u svojoj ljubavi i koja ČEKA ljubljenog muškarca da dođe.

Dvoje performera je razdvojeno platnom koje se koristi za sjene, kao i za projekcije animacije i videa. Projekt je podijeljen na dva prizora: prizor Nadje i prizor Bretona. L'amour fou obuhvaća različite vrste umjetničkih praksi kombinirajući body art sa multimedijom, teatrom sjena, monodramama, interakcijom sa publikom, te zvukovnim podražajima koji prizivaju osjete djetinjstva, ljubavi i ludila.

Kroz ovaj projekt propitujemo ljubav samu i načine na koji se manifestira odnos izmedju dvoje ljudi. Projekt govori o porazu teoretskog uma, koji gubi kompentenciju oko pitanja ljubavi, a kroz to i o kukavičluku oca nadrealizma ispred jedne mlade i krhke žene umjetnice. Projekt označava tu krajnju konzekvencu do koje može ići jedan odnos. Osim toga projekt za svoju temu ima i kritiku društva koje izolira nadarene pojedinace zbog straha od njihove genijalnosti, hrabrosti i orginalnosti.

Trajanje: 45 min

About the project_
Multimedia performance L'amour fou is based on two novels by «the father of surrealism» Andre Breton; Nadja (1928) and Crazy love (1937). In our project we problematize love througt all its stages, its passion and passing, its im(mortality). To illustrate that particular love and our love and  every crazy love we use body art, multimedia (animation, video), acustic sounds, theatre of shadows and monoplays that we combine in a very specific way.

Performance L’amour fou  is telling a true story about a young, sensitive and fragile women that is, after a short but turbulent and passionate adventure with Andre Breton, being locked inside a mental hospital where she spent the rest of her short life. And although she has shown Andre what immortal love is and how does the real surrealistic women lives, thinks and feels, he never had the courage to visit her there or to ask about her destiny. We took her short but content description of love;

ALL OR NOTHING to describe this immortal love between two artists that lives even today because Breton wrote a book about it and that book inspired us to explore the (im)mortality of love. Our focus was on that particular moment in our lives when we realise that this love that we are experiencing is going to live forever somewhere in us or that it is going to die. While working on this project we realised that the question of (im)mortality of love is basically the question of courage. 

In this project we reveal how that lack of courage can affect someone’s whole existence as an artist and as a human being, and what can and what can’t be destroyed. Because some things are bigger than life and death, like this love that we are talking about.  
We decided to apply for biennale of young artists because this years theme is very close to our performance and we always think of our work as a work in progress, we don’t consider any of our works as finished and we always try to develop and expand it with every new experience, performance or through communication with contemporary artists from different backgrounds or experiences.

Duration: 45 min