In Pulse

Anne Rochat’s artistic practice centres on her own body, with which she experiments with endurance, resistance and limits, essentially through performance. Whether she is ripping up the carpet of the Musée Jenish in Vevey with her teeth, walking the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia in full sun, swimming across Lac de Joux at night, or underwater in Lake Geneva, sharing a single source of air with her brother for two hours, she demonstrates a form of radical commitment in which the spirit takes precedence over suffering or pain.

In Pulse invites the audience to experience an immersive, interactive performance built around the heartbeat of each individual, captured on the body, transformed by a technological and compositional system, and amplified and broadcast into the venue. The organic, polyrhythmic sound work can be seen as a nod to György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique pour 100 Métronomes (1962). The collective ritual, which is performed in near darkness, offers a unique opportunity of social cohesion and active listening to the beating of one’s own heart and that of others present, creating a kind of organic symphony of rare intensity. Guest musicians will use this sound material to create unique live sequences.