AGATHE SIMON
Tribute to Gabriela Conti, Stockholm
Collective Performance
HD Video | Stereo | 8 min | 2015
© Agathe Simon
This collective performance took place on February the 8th, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden, during the opening of the Antarctica exhibition by Agathe Simon. On this occasion, artists and officials paid tribute to the famous French-Argentine novelist Gabriela Conti (1974-2010). This performance is part of the multimedia cycle The Conti Project, created as a tribute to this imaginary writer.
The Conti Project is an immersive multimedia cycle in homage to the famous French-Argentine novelist Gabriela Conti (1974-2010) – who does not exist. Since 2013, with the support of various institutional partners, Agathe Simon has been unfolding the Gabriela Conti fiction through solo and collective performances, a documentary directed in Antarctica, a video triptych filmed in the Arctic, an installation of 120 archives and documents, novels and travel stories, film photographs, a radio play on France Culture and two 5.1 sound installations.
Participants: Magnus Bunnskog, Composer & Creative Producer, Laurent Clavel, Head of the French Institute of Sweden, Lara Szabo Greisman, Cultural Attaché of the French Institute of Sweden, Robin McGinley, Musician & Curator, Fredrik Nielsen, Artist & Gallery Owner, Tatiana Stadnichenko, Student at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Directed and Edited by: Agathe Simon
Images & sound: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff, Agathe Simon
Special Thanks: Audiorama, EMS, Institut Français de Suède, Claudine Béal, Alfonso Ponce, Karin Starre, Mats Lindström, Gabrielle Karlsén-Beretta, Coralie Laurent.