A.E.I.O.U.X.Y.Z.

Overview

To the music of the Residents: the clan of vowels embodied by the tribal Gretcha Cargo, her flesh painted by Geneviève Hervé, who then made her first dance video. The electronic effects were designed to echo the makeup: the colors merge and interact under the movements of the dancer, thus transformed. The tape, winner of the Tokyo Festival Prize in 1983, was notably broadcast on the show Houba Houba by Antoine de Caunes in 1982, then at “Video Danse 1984” at the Center Pompidou.