Vocalités vivantes is a video rally between poetry and documentary. Its starting point is a duo combining poetry and new music. This duo is composed by the poet Carl Lacharité and the sound artist Érick d’Orion. The text entitled Le vivant deals with the theme of origin both of the individual and of community, even of species and of language. That is because this theme is approached by an art drawing on this very last material. The poet and artistic director Simon Dumas as well as the film-maker David B. Ricard join the duo of departure. Gathered around the original poetic text, the artistic team meets members of six different Francophone communities.
Over the stopovers, the performance highlights different realities of French in Canada. In each province, the original text is adapted or rewritten by a poet living in the area visited. This new version of the poems are read to the camera by citizens. The reading could be done by a grocer, the mayor, artists and so on. The team is the witness of this experience. It captures and archives various stages of the work and later interprets, connects and puts it all on stage with the help of the poets enrolled in the process. A documentary film by David B. Ricard inspired by these encounters is currently in post-production. In one week per stopover the team of poets and artists “amplifies” the original text with the help of the Other, finally returning it to the host community in the form of a closing show combining poetry, sound art and video testimonies.
