Camille Lacroix

Transformer designed to use small amounts of wasted energy

Sound performance by Camille Lacroix
With Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve and Sig Valax

Transformer for Using Wasted Small Energy Sources is a sound performance, inspired by Marcel Duchamp's text of the same name, which presents a gallery of living, talking, low-energy ready-mades.

The public is invited to visit an exhibition organized by the contemporary art foundation of a fictitious energy supplier: the SILEX group. The foundation presents its collection of sculptures consisting of improbable body-machine assemblages: presented on pedestals, the bodies are coupled with devices designed to recycle their “wasted” bodily energy in the form of sound energy.

By extending the issue of energy waste to the human body, this performance questions, with corrosive humor, our fantasies of high performance, perpetual intensity, or infinite self-regeneration. It presents bodies on the verge of breakdown, whose energies leak everywhere, producing uncontrolled sounds at the cost of immense effort. The sound acts here as a revealer of these undisciplined energies, which constantly escape the control of their “interpreter.”

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Distribution :

Design, composition, staging: Camille Lacroix
Performers: Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve, Camille Lacroix, Sig Valax

Partners:

Residency hosting: La Muse en Circuit - CNCM, Ici l'Onde - CNCM, the GMEM - CNCM, the Ménagerie de Verre, the CENTQUATRE - Paris, the Research Scene - ENS Paris-Saclay.
Co-productions: Here the Wave - CNCM, The Muse in Circuit - CNCM
With the support of: House of Contemporary Music (MMC), Beaumarchais SACD Association, DRAC Ile de France

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Camille Lacroix

Born in 1983
Based in Paris

A composer and sound artist, her work spans the fields of music, visual arts, and performance. Since 2022, she has been working on a project inspired by a text by Marcel Duchamp, "Transformer intended to utilize small, wasted energies," and currently takes the form of a series of sound performances. As part of this performative work, she designs sound and sculptural devices that transform bodies into "living, loud-speaking, low-energy-performance ready-mades." She also composes acousmatic pieces that have been performed at numerous festivals in France and abroad.

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Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve

Born in 1980 (FR)
Based in Paris

An actress and performer, she began her career working in film, notably under the direction of Cécile Bicler and Hervé Coqueret, and appeared in feature films. She was a performer and artistic collaborator for Louise Lévêque's company. She performed under the direction of Xavier Deranlot, Aurore Magnier, Mélissa Barbaud, Clarice Plasteig, and voiced the texts of Elodie Issartel. She experimented with dance with choreographer David Wampach. She collaborated with artists Cécile Bicler, Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Camille Lacroix, Cécile Paris, and Gwenola Wagon. She created her first carte blanche in July 2025.

Sig Valax

Born in 1966 
Based in Paris

She has been exploring the electrical tensions of sound for several decades. A singular figure in the experimental scene, she sculpts in a vibrant manner from analog synthesizers, modular synthesizers and the Persephone. Her music, raw and luminous, is born from the tactile manipulation of machines: feedback, distortions, glitches and saturated grains intermingle in moving forms. She cultivates a lively approach to improvisation and collaborates closely with dance and the performing arts, notably alongside Anna Gaïotti, Camille Lacroix and Aniara Rodado. She pursues a transversal work between performance and ensembles such as Sauges, Seuil Optique or Vierge Noire.