LILI
REYNAUD-DEWAR/NICOLAS MURER - MY EPIDEMIC (SMALL
MODEST BAD BLOOD OPERA)
The piece that Lili Reynaud-Dewar showed at Venice Biennial 2015
"All Tomorrow's Futures" consisted of two series of high metallic
structures on which were mounted printed curtains.
The curtains showed
the libretto written by her and sung by the singers of what she called
a small modest bad blood opera,
whose musical score was "composed" and played by Nicolas Murer.
This record is the small
modest bad blood opera.
Expect simple tunes with keyboards, noise and drum machines, a
strong amateur choir, a sense of holiness.
"The theme of the "opera" is a reflection on AIDS, starting with a
famous case from the beginning of the 2000s, when the French writer
Guillaume Dustan was attacked by Didier Lestrade, a founding member of
ACT UP Paris, for claiming that it was his personal and legal right to
have unsafe sex and write about it.(...) [The libretto] consist[s]of an
imaginary discussion between, on one hand, a group of activists [performed by a choir composed of Lili's students] trying to encourage safe sex, and, on the other,
an individual [performed by Lili
and
Nicolas Murer] claiming to have the liberty to do what [he/she wants]."
Jos Van den Bergh, Artforum October 2015vol. 54 n°2