Cinonema, no drama cinema extends ideas Flavien reflected on in his 2011 performance project, PLAy which brought together debates around performance, film and the functionality of the “house” by producing its own cinema. This new project incorporates a series of micro-films that present an action-based gesture performed inside and outside the house, linking to explorations of the house and its surroundings, projected across the walls of SLG’s space and functional furniture.
to live = to play
His houses exist as models, drawings and books before they are made real.
Jean-Pascal Flavien’s practice has as its pointof departure the design and construction of houses, which in turn become platforms for other works. Thought out and designed as functional habitations, each house sets up, by way of a pre-determined relationship between the space and its occupants, a singular living situation. Flavien lives in his houses, works in them, invites friends to stay in them..The houses are built to last for several years and are occupied intermittently. In each case, the very fact of living in the house (and by extension of experiencing that which the house produces for its occupants) in and of itself validates the artist’s claim that it is only by means of this lived experience that his work is activated and actualized. the space of the house being subdivided by two movable partitions segmenting the activities that takes place within it: living / sleeping / working. These sliding walls are perforated by openings, porous to passages. When moving they unsettle the viewer’s gaze, and modify the perspectival axes, allowing for objects, activities and people to move from one space to another, creating links,
Also he draws dinsaurs
