To complement the live performance programme (This is not a programme), The Catalyst gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Jean Luc Guionnet’s oeuvres: INFORMATIQUE DE SOI-MÊME # 15 (SELF COMPUTATION #15) 1 May - 1 June 2025, with a saxophone solo on the 2 May 2025 where Lotus Eddé Khouri may be found in the vicinity of the gallery to shape LA LENTEUR DES NUS (THE SLOWNESS OF THE NUDES).

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About Jean-Luc Guionnet:

Jean Luc Guionnet’s work is divided into as many ways as occasions arising for him to think and act with sound and drawings. These occasions have a strong connection with an outside element: an instrument (saxophone), a theoretical question (what is "rumour"?), and especially collaborating friends (Franck Gourdien, Lotus Eddé Khouri … Seijiro Murayama) ... There then follows a collection of themes which, in turn, influences the evolution of the work and defines the direction of encounters to come: the thickness of the air, the pidgin, the musical instrument considered as affective automaton, listening dark unto itself, the algebra of and in hearing, sound as a signature of space, signature of objects, signature of what it is not... the fact that French uses the same word – le temps – for time and weather, propagation and spread of forms in time, etc. The emotion I look for is made out of all these strata and the sliding of one onto the other.

Jean-Luc Guionnet studied Philosophy of Art and Visual Arts at the Sorbonne (Paris I) with eminent artists and thinkers: Iannis Xenakis, Michel Journiac, André Almuro, Éric Valentin, Jean-Michel Palmier, Côme Mosta-Heirt. He then got committed to music and sound art through sound installations ("Reflected Waves", "Stones, Air, Axioms : fèn te ko ro, nka kow bè ro kolo ntè"), electroacoustic compositions and tape music ("Non Organic Bias", "Tournures Cessent"), music for stage performances ("Ce qui dure dans ce qui dure" with Lotus Eddé Khouri), instrumental compositions ("Distances Ouïes Dites") and musical improvisations (organ solos, sax solos, "Hubbub", "Ames Room"). He also has been invited to take part in several programmes about sound and listening for the French National Radio (France Culture - ACR). His works are widely published on record labels all over the world such as: "Ground Fault", "Potlatch", "Empty Editions", "Hibari", to cite a few. Along with his sonic activity, he pursues his visual art practice through drawing, as well as his theoretical work through a series of writings about metaphysics, sound and art -shared in lectures (Transmedial, Glasgow University, EHESS, etc.).   

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