Jerk, by Gisèle Vienne and Jonathan Capdevielle

By Isabelle Barbéris
English

The one-man performance based on Denis Cooper’s short story, Jerk, explores the techniques of glove puppets and ventriloquism to recount and re-enact in front of a fictitious theoretical audience the affairs of the serial killer Dean Corll in the 1970s. This corporal script starts with puppets and metamorphoses into a pure vocal ventriloquirial performance. It can be analyzed through the corps-caméra (“body-as-a-camera”), a notion developed by Catherine Perret after Rosalind Krauss.

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