Listening Bar

performance by Lauren Tortil
Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Grenette de la Ferme-Asile, Sion - Free, reservation required

Maximum 8 people per session

Listening Bar is inspired by Japanese audiophile bars—of the same name—that the artist discovered during her stays in Japan in 2023 and 2024: intimate spaces dedicated to listening to music. A confined setting, dim lighting, turntable, vinyl records, and high-quality speakers— for this performance, the artist dons the apron of a barmaid and invites you to savor a cocktail, in silence, to the rhythm of her musical selection.

In connection with the exhibition devoted to the work of Catherine Ceresole at La Grenette, this selection takes as its starting point the no wave and punk scene of 1980s New York. While silence here contributes fully to concentration, the listening experience proposed is meant to be both active and shared: the presence of the audience and the gestures of the barmaid overlap with the records being played, drawing attention simultaneously to the music and the sounds produced in the space. These simultaneous events seem to participate in the creation of a new composition, improvised in real time within the space.

This work was co-produced by the Biennale Son and the Villa du Parc art center in Annemasse, France.