Collectif Impatience FR
Speaker Corner
Video Performance
A tour of artworks in public spaces as part of the Aix Biennale
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st October
from 7pm to 11pm
35-minute performance
Grand Théâtre de Provence, avenue Mozart
Aix-en-Provence
Credits
Co-production: Lieux publics – National Center for Street Arts and Public Space.
With support from the Théâtre du Fil de l’Eau in Pantin, 2R2C in Paris, the Maison des Métallos in Paris, and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.
SPEAKER CORNER is the wall; it is the flow within the urban space; it craves attention, and so it decides to become one with the audience. From there, anything can happen.
In SPEAKER CORNER, the presence of the audience is essential, as there are no actors and no soundtrack.
What the ‘speaker’ reveals on the projection screen invites a collective celebration of public space.
Through a clever digital device, which plays on the here and now just as an actor would, the piece interacts with passers-by, sounds and the smallest of events taking place around it. With a touch of mischief, Speaker Corner invites the audience to transform the street into a space that connects living people.
Cast
Design: Olivier Boréel and Perrine Mornay.
Software development: Sébastien Rouiller.
Distribution/Production: Émilie Briglia.
Administration/Production: Iseult Guibout.
Impatience Collective
The Collectif Impatience (75) places research and the relationship with the individual—the audience member—at the center of its creations.
“In light of global developments, we are taking an exploratory approach. We create forms that shift the viewer’s gaze, that transform the way a performance is experienced and the way one becomes a spectator. We are implementing a “dramaturgy of address.”
Our works and performances are conceived as interactive mediums with the audience: visual and/or participatory installations, theater without actors, audience-centered staging, and performances in which we ourselves take part…
The encounter can serve as the starting point for a performance such as Bâton which invites someone from outside the theater world to be at the center of the process. But our research on “the audience” can turn into an obsession, as in Lumen Text to the point where there are no more interpreters. The concept of “assembly” underpins the very principle of the TTension Conference. We develop performances, gallery installations, laboratories, game and discussion protocols, sound installations, and site-specific works in non-traditional venues. Our research is informed by protocols that encourage confrontation, intertwining, and hybridization.
The connection to the visual arts is emphasized. We are just as interested in the method and the creative process as we are in the final format.
The Research Project What Can the Night Do?, supported by the Ministry of Culture’s research division, brought together researchers, artists, and children to explore, in the space of the night, participatory formats tailored to children. As a result of this research, a work of the same name was created in December 2025.
The Collectif Impatience has been under contract with the DRAC Île-de-France since 2025; it regularly receives project funding for its productions from the DRAC Île-de-France, the Île-de-France region, Dicréam, and Spedidam… Its productions have been staged at venues including the Théâtre de Vanves (92), the T.U. (Nantes – 44), La Filature (Mulhouse – 68), at the Vivat in Armentières (59), at C.12 (Mantes-La-Jolie (78)), at Dello Scompiglio (Italy), at L’Échangeur (Bagnolet – 93), at Emmetrop (Bourges – 18), at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (93), at the Maïf Social Club (Paris), at the MacVal in Vitry (94), at Bain Public/Saint-Nazaire (44), at the Théâtre du Train Bleu/Avignon Off Festival, the Studio-Théâtre de Vitry (94), the Frac Lorraine (57), and at the Bruits de Galop (75), Dans Ta Cour (75), OTNI (75), Connexions (63), etc.
