reconstituted oil rig in front of the museum, Lausanne

Oil rig on the "desertified" place Riponne, Lausanne

First part as a public intervention for the festival Les Urbaines.

The sculpture is loudly inhabited by a soundtrack with a text reenacting the controversy on how to find resources between the "sourcier" (water diviner) and the state geologist, displaced on the topic of urban space as a matter of exploitation. The dialogue is interrupted with a field recording composition by Gilles Aubry.

Second Part in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts

original postcard

original oil rig on a postcard from 1929 on which the reconstitution is based

An interview in french with Pierre-Phillippe Cadert on RSR about the installation and its background is available as podcast here.

video projected during the festival in the groupshow curated by Noah Stolz and Patrick Gosatti

Conception: Yves Mettler
Realisation: Pierre Cauderay, David Busset, Frères Métral (Morges-Apples)
Co-production: Les Urbaines (www.urbaines.ch) & Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Sound: Yves Mettler
Field recordings composition: Gilles Aubry (http://www.soundimplant.com/gilaubry/ )
Voice: Alexandre Schild