Dead Plants and Living Objects

is a collaboration with Rie Nakajima, since 2015, about 80 activities in Europe: exhibitions, concerts, residencies and workshops. Lots of them wouldn’t have been possible without the kind help of "Wallonie Bruxelles International" for travel fees.

Here's a video of a concert in a toy museum near Nagoya, in december 2024:

Exhibition at Museo Vostell-Malpartida, Extremadura, Spain, winter 2019:

Concert in Prag, 2017

Concert in Udine, 2016

Sometimes, we make boxes, they are filled with small hand-made instruments, objects (sometimes motorized), original drawings, postcards, colourful papers and CDR. Boxes are all different (Only available directly from us after the concert or by mail: 50 euros + postage, order at p.58berthet@gmail.com.) more details and photos here

CD : Mani mani released from Kolhaas

Tin cans, whistles, locomotive suspension springs, porcelain bowls, compressor top bells, ping pong balls, agave dry leaves, sponges, steel wires, branches, paper foils, plastic bags, silver papers, pink gloves, piano, balloons, buckets, feathers, water, scraps, pebbles, flower pots, metal tubes, paulownia tree seeds, bamboo sticks, logs, bones, stones,...

RN and PB have been creating various ways to vibrate things so that their acoustic shadows dance around: invisible air volumes that reshape constantly, move in the space, enter in the most secret places and inside ourselves. A way to get closer to things inherent spirits is to listen to them. Eventually encouraging them to produce sounds and resonate by various means: to hit, caress, shake, beat, scrape, scratch, claw, boil, clap, rattle, rock, throw, move, magnetise, clamp, cook, pinch, galvanise, motorise, bow, blow, pluck, heat up, let flow, freeze, drop, drip, connect, roll, mix, extend, sing...

BLURBS and REVIEWS:

Eupen, 2017, photo: Charlotte Bohn

A text by David Toop where in the end he tells about one of our performance in a field

Tectonic Glasgow Festival review

Review of our Sheffield concert at Algomech Festival in 2017

Review of our Milano performance

Review of our Mani mani CD in Vital Weekly (have to scroll a bit deep down there)

VIDEOS:

short extracts of a concert at Sonic Protest Festival 2017

Atelier Claus, Brussels, sept.2017

Short extract of a concert in Munster (G)

A wind harp in Frioul

a concert in Udine, april 2016

a concert in Sheffield, november 2016

Sydney Noland Trust

A concert in Graz, june 21, 2018:

Past concerts and activities :

Eupen, 2017, photo: Charlotte Bohn

2023:

July 2: Monheim Triennale II, The Sound – Sonic Art in Public Space, Monheim am Rhein, Germany

April 1 - November 5 Installation exhibited at Le Cyclop (Jean Tinguely), Milly-la-Forêt – France Concert on May 13

July 2: Monheim Triennale II, The Sound – Sonic Art in Public Space, Monheim am Rhein, Germany

April 1: Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima at Archipel festival, Genève.

February 3->March 5: Exhibition and performances with Rie Nakajima in Trier, Germany

2022:

June 25 : Festival "Back to the tree", Besançon (St Vit) June 27 : Humus Library , Lausane June 29: 102 Grenoble July 8: Villa Stuck Munich July 9 Villa Stuck, Munich: workshop All these activities were supported by Wallonie Bruxelles International (travel fees)

2021:

September 23-26: Seanaps Festival, Leipzig

September 19: Rockefeller foundation, Dresden

September 12: Festival Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Switzerland concert with Rie Nakajima

2020:

August 21: Ulm (Germany) + 6 weeks exhibition: Griesbad Gallery

September 25: Brussels, la chambre de l’art et de la culture

September 26: Ottignies, bois des rêves, more infos soon

March 21: Maison Salvan, Labège (France): exhibition

2019:

August 21: Ulm (Germany) + 6 weeks exhibition

November 5: FRAC Besancon