NOUVELLE RANDONNÉE
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“A blonde goes out for a run. She comes to a river and cannot see a bridge anywhere nearby. She spots another
blonde on the opposite bank. “Yoohoo doll!” she shouts, “How can I get to the other side?” The second blonde looks
up the river then down the river then shouts back, “You’re already on the other side!”
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Opening 16. June 2011
A Party under the auspices of Nouvelle Randonnee
18. June 2011 with DJ set
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If you are feeling empty, relax, we are in this together. We cannot do it without you. Listen closely and you may hear a steady tone. The tone appears, disappears, and reappears and floats around you. There is no consolation, only repitition. Repetition is the undertone, like the hurricane that returns every September, like the green throw the honeysuckle curtain, and the still refreshing taste of an ice cold coca cola. Contradiction is inherent. It hides in the undertone ready to be wielded for and against itself. Do not be afraid of it.
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Nouvelle Randonnée is both the title of the show, and the collective composed of artists, Alex Auriema, Morgan Belenguer and Beny Wagner. The French word Randonnée translates as hike in English and wandern in German. The
project is about rehearsal. It is about limits and possibilities, new years resolution is, and healthy diets. We are inspired by everything that tells us it is not only positive, but it is necessary. The route is structured, its paths marked, its tools branded as lifestyle.
Nouvelle Randonnée is on a search for that point of nil where we desire our servitude as if it were our salvation. We are three artists who use collaboration not because it is seasonable, but because we believe in the process of criticism. We have re-written this text three times and we we will one thousand times more.
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