Feuillet d'Hypnos, Unité d’habitation 3 jours

Temporary collective housing for the performance Feuillets d'Hypnos, 237 actions pour la scène. Cour d’honneur du Palais des papes, Avignon, France.
2007, completed

Festival d'Avignon
Director: Frédéric Fisbach
Artistic director and set design: Laurent P. Berger
Artistic collaboration: Cyrille Berger
Lighting design: Daniel Lévy
Costume design: Olga Karpinsky
Cast: Wakeu Fogaing, Pulcherie Gadmer, Johanna Korthals Altes, Nicolas Maury, Benoit Résillot, Stéphanie Schwartzbrod, Fred Ulysse with one hundred amateurs
Feuillets d'Hypnos (1946) in Fureur et mystère, René Char - Éditions Gallimard

5:00 PM, July 15th - Lecture by François Cusset
5:00 PM, July 16th - Lecture by Marie-Josée Monzain
5:00 PM, July 17th - Lecture by Etienne Balibar
Surface: 400m²

Feuillets d'Hypnos, 237 actions pour la scène was performed at the Cour d'Honneur in the Palais des papes for the 60th anniversary of the Festival d'Avignon.
  This unit of residence serves a literal purpose : the troop of artists lives on stage in the Cour d'Honneur with their families, for 24 hours a day during the whole of the three-day performance. A circumstantial community thus brought itself into being, and took the stage to speak and recite the poetry of René Char every evening.
The performance space is substituted with functional programming: a kitchen, a bathroom, a badminton court, a small amphitheater, a public gathering space, and an ensemble of cabin bedrooms.
  The seemingly standard form of this architectural structure "3 Days" (3 days of set-up, 3 days of performance, 3 days of dismantling) was drawn up in tandem with the project's registration on the site for the performance dates of the 15th, 16th and 17th of July 2007. It is presented as a series of climatic modifications that respond to the different micro-climates within the Cour d'Honneur. The stage is re-territorialized in function with the potential forms of habitat made possible by the climate of the site : from cooler to warmer, from the most artificial to the most natural, from east to west.