Franck Leibovici
The multi-artist Franck Leibovici (b. 1975) lives in Paris. His creative process has resulted in both text, music and film, and if possible, in combinations where they enrich and complement each other. Powell opera – a mini opera for non-musicians was first performed during the opening of the exhibition room Anne+ i Ivry-sur-Seine outside Paris in 2007. A group of non-professional singers were recruited by e-mail. Excerpts from the speech of Colin Powell to the UN in 2003, where he presented arguments to why the US were to engage in war against Iraq, are sung a cappella .
Thinking of Fautrier and Looking at Walls: Around the notion of poetic document was first performed at the exhibition room Location One in Paris during 2006. The performance is a result of Leibovici’s examinations over a period of several years, titled ”Low intensity conflicts”. In several works he uses lyrical poetry in ways that surpass our understanding of poetry as a traditional literary genre, in a way that it becomes a ”zone of cross reference” between different aesthetic disciplines.