{"id":1365,"date":"2024-12-16T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piaff.net\/?post_type=eventkrake_artist&p=1365"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:17:37","slug":"rencontre-avec-boris-labbe-et-lucas-fagin-autour-de-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/piaff.net\/en\/artist\/rencontre-avec-boris-labbe-et-lucas-fagin-autour-de-glass-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk with Boris Labb\u00e9 and Lucas Fagin about Glass House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of the screening of Glass House<\/em>, composer Lucas Fagin and director Boris Labb\u00e9 will discuss their collaboration on the original piece that inspired the project. Conceived as an immersive visual and auditory experience, it was created in June 2023 by the Ensemble Cairn at the Sc\u00e8ne nationale d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans and has since been transformed into a medium-length film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass House<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collaboration between Ensemble Cairn and composer Lucas Fagin began in 2015 when, as part of Radio France’s Alla Breve<\/em> commissions, he composed Psychedelic<\/em>. Written for seven musicians, Lucas Fagin’s music bridges the gap between so-called “contemporary” and “current” music, drawing inspiration from three highly referenced sources: Ligeti (Kammerkonzert<\/em>), Pink Floyd (On the Run, from the album Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>), and a hypnotic painting by Victor Vasarely. The shared desire to delve deeper into this work led Lucas Fagin to propose creating an extended form over time and space, with the collaboration of audiovisual artist Boris Labb\u00e9: Glass House<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting of these two artists, who share a taste for distortions, optical illusions, and geometric eccentricities, is intended to be a radical undertaking. Drawing inspiration from the unsettling world of science fiction, their work seeks to alter perception and disorient the senses through a composition that is both visual and sonic, simultaneously hypnotic and psychedelic. Their ambition is to create a new universe, a “Psi-fi” that radiates in multi-dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Labb\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trained at the \u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019art de Tarbes and then at the \u00c9cole de cin\u00e9ma d\u2019animation d\u2019Angoul\u00eame, the work of Boris Labb\u00e9 (1987, FR) quickly made the rounds of contemporary art exhibitions, international film festivals or audiovisual concerts. His short film La Chute was included in the selection of the special session of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival Critics\u2019 Week. In 2020, he collaborated with choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and designed the video set design for Swan Lake. He won the Main prize at the Venice Biennale for his virtual reality project Ito Meikyu (Sacrebleu Productions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on his drawing activity, Boris Labb\u00e9’s work is characterized by hybridization, combining the use of digital moving image techniques with those specific to animated film. This approach, somewhere between tradition and innovation, forms an original and vibrant language, prone to improvisation and the calculation of probabilities, questioning the problems of representation, the relationship between painting and cinema, between music and dance, between the body and animals, plants and minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His videos tend to break out of the spatio-temporal framework imposed by classical cinema; governed by the notion of expanded cinema, his works are not only destined for projection in the movie theater, but also tend towards other forms, notably installations. Boris Labb\u00e9 creates a cinema without direct shooting, without actors, without characters, without dialogue, and whose narration, often dilated, remains open to the spectator\u2019s interpretation. This apparent minimalism paves the way to maximums, with each project seeking its culmination until a certain form of depletion of the cinematic means deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Labb\u00e9\u2019s work forms a cinema of multiplicity. Repetition, re-presentation, collages, patterns, metamorphoses, perpetual movement, as well as constant citations of art history, literature and philosophy, have all become essential resources of his audiovisual language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucas Fagin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucas Fagin was born in 1980 in Argentina. He is a composer, keyboard and guitar player living in Paris and Buenos Aires. Until 2003, during the Buenos Aires period, he was an outsider while he studied with Daniel Montes, Ricardo Martinez and Aldo Antognazzi. Later, he decided to go to France where he studied composition at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique de Paris with Marco Stroppa, Stefano Gervasoni and Luis Na\u00f3n. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the last years he had commissions by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ars Musica Festival, Teatro Col\u00f3n Argentina (CETC), French State, Teatro Argentino de La Plata, Trio KDM, Radio France, GRM, Ensemble LeBalcon, Ciclo de Conciertos Teatro San Martin, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is focus both in instrumental and electronic music. Some of the main features of his work are the instrumental and electronic spatialisation, the use of noise giving noise mixed or orchestrated with pitch, the treatment of sound as a plastic material, the mix and use of ordinary objects alongside with traditional instruments for creating an abstract and contextless sound world or the use of visual images to structure his sonic ideas. In most part of his work there are almost no either signs or reference points tending to build columns in time, the bridges of memory are destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His opera La Libertad Total based on a novel by Pablo Katchadjian was premiered on october 2014 opening the Buenos Aires Contemporary Music Festival with stage setting by Mariano Tenconi Blanco.
In 2023, with visual artist Boris Labb\u00e9, they created Glass House for ensemble and video, a multidimensional and super virtuoso 40-minute work, a radiant and hypnotic psi-fi trail combining subtlety and the most radical ruptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the year 2016-2017 he was composer in residence at Acad\u00e9mie de France \u00e0 Madrid, Casa de Velazquez. He won more than 20 international and national prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n