Le Sens Positif 33t. Lp -(Dma2) . Bordeaux, France. 1987
L' Eclipse K7- (Staalplaat). Arnsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1985
Mon Coeur K7- (Vita Nova). Grenoble, France. 1985
Cent Jours Clairs / Cinq Portes Soudees K7- (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1984
Plutot L'exil Du Cinq Doré 45t. Ep - (Vita Nova). Grenoble, France. 1983
Ceux Que J'aime / Ce Que Je Hais K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1983
L'étoile Au Front K7- (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1982
L' Opposition Et Les Cases Conjuguees Sont Reconciliees K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1981
La Vue K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1981
Filmography Bleu1994 Royaume1991 Aurore1989 L'Autre Rive1986 Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et les Etoiles1984 Des Autres terres Souples
(Pre.Monde, L'Ame Ou La Vue Cède)1982 All those films are also in video by
STAALPLAAT. PO BOX 11453, 1001 GL, AImsterdam
Bibliography
Wonderland (Wonderland). France. 2001
+ CD 3 tracks
Le Sens Positif / L'autre Rive (Staalplaat). Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1992
+ 2 Cds
L' Unique Hermetique by Eric Hurtado (Ed. Saint-Germain des Pres). Paris, France. 1982
ÉTANT DONNÉS strive to point out a place.
A sacred place.
This place is a name.
No word speaks the name.
AlI mouths are opened to the name.
AlI ways lead to the name
and no way reaches the name.
The place of the name is
there and here.
We are outside the skin of the name.
We can see the name
only through its skin.
lts skin is our skin.
The name of the skin is inside.
Name and skin.
to be and to give.
ÉTANT DONNÉS by Henri Chopin
Étant Donnés is a duet by Eric and Marc Hurtado created in Grenoble in 1980. From this French town, it rapidly became international, especially in Europe.
Born in 1959 and 1962 respectively, in Rabat, Morocco, the two brothers have chosen both orality and writing, with a clear, semantic word, yet without the burden of grammar.
Through them, it is the volume of each word that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power of their bodies expressing their voices.
Each event is the scream - indeed even the glissando -
of the strength of the word that sometimes abruptly becomes a rock, a solid surface, not in the least fluvial, as is the narrative of a tale, novel or poetic epic.
With both of them, no more trace of ancient prosodies, no more trace the incomprehensible Sainte-Beuve who could claim "I have to collect a volume of prose".
The word, the voice, the volume take shape with each other, unveiling a theatre that theatre usually ignores, which has given it such things as a Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie.
Moreover listening to 'Aurore', our two actors' CD, undoubtedly owing to the influence of the Mediterranean cradle, single umbilical cord of two great religions, the influence of both Latin and Arab worlds - Gaelic short and long sounds can sometimes be perceived - since their dictions are such a synthesis of several origins.
Nothing is left here of the schools of a Charles Dullin, so dear to the Comédie Française. On the contrary, ETANT DONNÉS is a corporal and semantic circus, yet without semantics.
With their oral and combinative strengths, Eric and Marc give us the action of theatre, from which dictions and descriptive declamations disappear. I could write to them in early December 1994: "[...] in the power of voices and semantics, as well as in the severe body/mind combination, inseparable from each other, I find in Aurore a song of the bodies, indispensable to any sound values. "
In addition to their violences, their sensuous delicacies often in these word cutouts, their nakedness and lights -indeed even made up - come accounts of naked men who need neither conventional costumes nor the devices of traditional stages any more.
What I felt on listening to Aurore was confirmed by Patrick Bossati in May 1992, in this excerpt:
"Be it poetry, cinema, sound, stage, everything the two of them do is done with a kind of rage that leaves you stunned. Their sound, for example, extensive, grave and apocalyptic, mixed from amplified natural elements, make those who listen dumbfounded. Their art is staggering in every respect, in the 16th century sense of the French word 'sidérant', when it meant: 'influenced by the stars'. Their music is a radioscopy of the chaos of the universe and of matter."
This duet, I insist, took form in 1980. It is part of the ineluctable (re)birth of oralities - exorcists - both re-discovered and discovered in the electronic worlds. Together with the passion of travels, where Etant Donnés is "staggering in every respect".
Any true sound poetry is shattering, the really oral one is there in space, with the plus of the media machines, of the voices that slip through them, overwhelming them with the splendour of the bodies.
Greetings from Greece. Thank you very much for applying. Really love and appreciate your very early stuff that released from Vinyl on demand. Take care and all the best.
Merci ! Et merci pour les sensations ressenties lors d'un concert à Rennes il y a quelques années, je continue à chercher des performances de cette qualité, si rares, si intenses... la lumière, voir, la violence, subir la lumière pour percevoir la violence... une grande expérience Bonne soirée Nol
Fascinant voyage et témoignage, d'une vie éblouie, que ces cinq magnifiques films présentés samedi à Beaubourg... Bravo et merci, pour cette "musique" ahurissante.
Bonjour... Vous faites un travail remarquable, très complet. Mots, sons, images... C'est très rare de voir autant de diversité et en même temps un véritable aboutissement dans chaque domaine. Nous partageons beaucoup de références et de goûts en commun... J'espère que vous apprécierez également mon travail expérimental. Excellent week-end.
Je ne pensais pas revoir un jour ces images de votre performance Dunkerquoise. J'ai vécu ce jour là une bien belle expérience en votre compagnie. J'étais aussi à DMA2 et à Utrecht, et c'est avec beaucoup d'émotion que je revois toutes ces images. Merci encore. Patrick
Une réédition de ces K7 mythiques, je n'osais même plus en réver. Je commande çà illico chez VOD. En espérant vous revoir trés bientôt sur ou hors scène. Amitiés Patrick
strive to point out a place.
ÉTANT DONNÉS
