Radio Vinci Park (Reloaded)

A mysterious helmeted motorcyclist and a Baroque creature face off in an underground parking garage. Through Radio Vinci Park (Reloaded), François Chaignaud and Théo Mercier have created an expanded version of their allegorical performance, where flesh and metal attract and repel each other—their encounter punctuated by harpsichord melodies.

Radio Vinci Park, the title of this collaboration between Théo Mercier and François Chaignaud, functions as a catchphrase for several visions: the underground parking garage as a familiar, oppressive place; the motorcycle, a fantastical machine, accompanied by its masked rider; and finally, the radio, a mix of frequencies, eras and sounds. In this Reloaded version, the ceremonial figure embodied by François Chaignaud is accompanied by two operators, Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Daniel Wendler—half-mechanics, half-singers—who add to the disorder of the ritual they perform. A singing, dancing creature, François Chaignaud engages with the machine in sensual or threatening hand-to-hand combat, acting as a principle of uncertainty and gradually transforming the perception of space into an arena. Between motorcyclist Cyril Bourny, harpsichordist Marie-Pierre Brébant and choreographer François Chaignaud, artist Théo Mercier has orchestrated a pulsating universe: a hallucination in which the sounds of the harpsichord responate with the terror of the time.