Selected documentation
'chant in' is a 2 to 3 hours durational performance of improvised chanting, inviting the audience to sit one by one on a chair in front of Taïs to receive individual chants inspired by their presence whilst maintaining eye contact.
Taïs first created the performance during the Marrakech Biennale in 2016, as a mean to delve into three main fears she had about singing in public: improvising, singing accapella and looking at the audience in the eyes. The performance became a tool to face and overcome these fears and has now evolved into revealing what lied behind the whole time : an opportunity for truer connection.
Exploring states of transe and opening spaces of vulnerability, play and trust, the performance aims to offer a challenging yet intimate space for the audience to experience connection with the other and themselves, be seen, and receive.
Chant in - performed at Corona Culture - Alte Muenze, Berlin, 2021
Performed during “La Reception”, Paris, 2018.
Performed at Kaos, Berlin, 2017. Photography Credits: Left, center : Charlotte J Ward / Right : Halea Kala / Bellow : Tina Ateljevic
Performed for ‘Shadow Play’, East of Elsewhere, Berlin, 2018.
Performed at Obonjan Festival, 2017
Performed during “Now for an Old Language of Connection”, Marrakech Biennale, 2016.
2022
Chant in Water Bodies, Shaleshurst, Forest Row
2021
Corona Culture, Alte Muenze, Berlin
Spring Equinox, Spring Cottage, Forest Row
2018
GHOST, London, UK
‘Shadow <<play>>‘, East of Elsewhere, Berlin, Germany
La Reception, Paris, France
2017
KAOS, Berlin, Germany
Obonjan Festival, Croatia
'Moquettes et Papiers Peints' exhibition, Paris, France
2016
Turn Around in the Nipple Dome, London, UK
Obonjan Festival, Croatia
'Other Altars' exhibition, Curious Duke Gallery, London, UK
'Now for an Old Language of Connection', 6th Marrakech Biennale, Morocco