2008/Happymaniacs's 25mn live act & multimedia / Soundtrack by Music for The Space. ONE NIGHT IN A HIDDEN PLACE, 22 FEB 08, Le ZOO (www.lezoo.ch)
 

 

LIVE ACTS

Alice: "We wanted to involve ourselves physically, and to bring the still life to real life, to tell stories in some way. On stage you can really play with energies, you don't control everything but you have some freedom within the frame. You arrive on stage to set your little world within the bigger one. It works or it doesn't.
Actions are written but, we are in a fantasy reality generated from within based on obsessions, so we still open to go somewhere else during a show, like including elements from the moment or the audience."

Johnnie: "It's always interesting to debate and think about what you do, but if the conceptual matter takes over the action it results in a long justification of an act that just needs to be done, to just do it seems always the best answer to evade in conceptual mazes."

Their inspiration other than fetish and S.M. are sort of surrealist inspired film and TV series such as 'The avengers'. Monty Pythons, Home-made ritual magic made of obsessions where objects and clothes are alive and where the overpower notion often takes place.