Bonheur Entrepreneur
Ariane Loze
- Performance
- Theater
By bringing together in an impressionistic way extracts of phrases from the world of work and its organisation, Ariane Loze creates a show whose strangeness surprises.
The first sentences could make us think of snippets of conversations gleened from a cocktail party, we recognise the contemporary all-entrepreneurship mixed with an ideology of ideal management. Behind the dialogues are reflections on work, its constraints and the space for freedom that everyone is looking for within the framework that they create or are subject to. And what about these people who work? Do they talk about work or activity, passion or flexible hours?
Ariane Loze observes, with a precise and profoundly watchful eye, the world in which we live and reports on it with her voice, gesture and body language, letting the words one and all pass through her.
As a guest on a set of a film in the making, the spectator discovers different characters coming to life on the theater stage, simultaneously a film studio. Ariane Loze, playing alternately the different characters in attendance, pushes the spectator into a fragmented timeline, like the rushes of a film.
The play, Bonheur Entrepreneur, also testifies to our relationship with time. How much time do we dedicate to work? How do we envisage the time that remains once a working day is over?
Evening composed with
Salle L’Envers
From 12 years old
Direction Ariane Loze
With Ariane Loze, Enzo Addi and Steve Argüelles
Text Ariane Loze and Nina Leger
Director of photography Enzo Addi
Music Steve Argüelles
Outside view Florian Gaité
Intern Élise Cohen
Set photography Mathilde Delahaye
Thanks to Philippe Boulet, Laurent Levesque, Michel Rein
A production and diffusion workspacebrussels | With the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of its programme New Settings |
Un coproduction with Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Centre Tour à Plomb, wpZimmer, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie and Galerie Michel Rein Paris/Brussels.
Cover image : Ariane Loze’s Nomade Bonheur Entrepreneur evening at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain © Marc Domage
Other visuals © Mathilde Delahaye