Scenario : Gruppo Petrolio
Film production : Gruppo Petrolio
With : Zoé Arnaud, Jacopo Belloni, Yassine Bouzid, Jules Chanvillard, Igor Dubreucq, Jean-Marie Fahy, Yassine Gheribi, Oélia Gouret, Judith Hassine, Bekim Krivaqa, Noémi Lancelot, Fanny Laulaigne, Sofia Lautrec, Pierre Liénhard, Marie Métaireau, Delphine Mouly, Nicolas Murer, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Caroline Schattling-Villeval, Laurent Schmid, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni, Karoline Straczek, Anaelle Turc, Flaviano Pisanelli, Théo Pesso, Daseul Woo.
Text : Nanni Balestrini, Brochure d’information sur les risques industriels majeurs, Comité invisible, De tout bois – revue de lutte contre le Center Parcs de Roybon, Groupe Grothendiek, Lotta Continua, Manifesto per Una Università Negativa, Potere Operaio, Primo Moroni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tiquun.
Image : Victor Zébo
Sound recording : Pali Meursault
Logistic : Yassine Bouzid
Film editing : Hodei Berasategi
Film calibration : Bertrand Scalabre
Sound editing : Pali Meursault
Transcription : Hodei Berasategi
Narration : Baptiste Pinteaux, Nicolas Murer et Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Production : Fondation Bullukian, Head Genève, MO.CO.ESBA Montpellier, Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Executive producer : The Hidden Mother
Gruppo Petrolio – Sabotage and Contamination – Saison 1
The exhibition TRANS(M)ISSIONS will presents a film in several episodes by Gruppo Petrolio, a moving and unfixed artists collective gathered around Lili Reynaud Dewar (winner of the 2021 Prix Marcel Duchamp). Lili Reynaud Dewar started teaching early. Her lectures at la HEAD in Geneva take the form of discussions, screenings, and dialogues outside of the school. “With the students, we are creating temporary collectives, which are to be constantly renewed and are not intended to last beyond their studies. I sincerely enjoy it. For a long time my class was called “Teaching like a teenager”: teaching is probably the only place where I can best escape from the normative and static dimension of the 'adult'”. For Gruppo Petrolio, the artist has worked since 2019 with students from the Ecole d'art de Genève as well as with students from the Ecole de Montpellier. Transmission, reinterpretation, improvisation: this collective experience immerses us into a soap opera thriller with Pasolini's text, Petrolio, as its anchor. Other texts, music and dance, references to political acts of sabotage, views of Grenoble’s mountains, industrial sites, a Roman trattoria are all elements of these episodes both scripted and improvised. In between fiction, documentary, telenovela, and experimental film, a game is in progress between the actors and their mentor in never-ending, contaminating forms of narration. Nine different episodes are presented in an environment designed by Gruppo Petrolio.
TRANS(M)ISSIONS offers an opportunity to think of art as an unfinished formal, conceptual, collective, and moving system. It insists on the notion of being together and of sharing as an artistic gesture.