Enigme No1 Adolf Wolfli
musical performance
“Good morning you gentlemen, and ladies:? what do you want, from, me: I am not among the tame: And yet no wild animal. Signed, Adolf Wölfli, Bern.” [c.1912]
A performance based on the works of Adolf Wôlfli.
Texts and artwork : Adolf Wolfli / devised by : Sylvie Reteuna and Eric Sterenfeld / directed by : Sylvie Reteuna / performed by: François Daujon and Eric Sterenfeld / music : Eric Sterenfeld / video : Kate France / lighting, stage management and artistic collaboration : Jean-Claude Fonkenel / administration : Christine Tournecuillère/ Conduite Accompagné
Coproduction: La Sibylle (production déléguée) / Espace Culture Université Lille 1 / with support from Drac Nord Pas-de-Calais / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / thanks to la Compagnie de l’Oiseau Mouche / special thanks to LaM, Lille métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, for the loan of the artworks.
This performance followed on from l’Appartement, an installation and walk-through performance created for les Rencontres de la Villette 2008 by Bruno Decharme, Kate France and Sylvie Reteuna, where François Daujon read texts by Wolfli.
click here for more about L’Appartement
Enigme No 1 Adôlf Wolfli was first performed on the 21st March 2012 at l’Espace Culture de l’Université Lille 1 in the cycle Rendez-vous d’Archimède: Raison, folie, déraisons.