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 2015 vol. 54 n°2




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