Creations in 2025

Sous un nouveau jour (In a new light) explores the passage of time in the context of a historical building.

This multidisciplinary project combines film, an unusual use of everyday movements, and an artistic perspective on architecture.
The project consists of two main components.

The first component, entitled Encadré (Framed), will explore the building from a visual arts perspective.
The aim of Encadré is to create a multi-screen video installation that directly involves the local population and heritage in its creative process and artistic concept.

Encadré will focus on the framing, shaping and staging of the human body within architectural elements. The concept of framing will be explored both through the artist’s carefully chosen camera frame as well as the frames offered by the building. The latter refer to physical frames – such as alcoves, windows, beams, etc. – but also to the historical context. The building has many small rooms, which were used as residences for nuns in a convent and then for people in a hospice, both of which provide contextual and historical frameworks.

The second part, with the working title Escalier vers le troisième étage (Staircase to the Third Floor), will explore the same building with focus on contemporary dance tools in the creative processes.

This part of  Sous un nouveau jour features the staircases and first floor – parts of this vast building that were not explored in the 2024 works Venu et Parti and Dans la lumière d’automne.

The performers featured in the two parts of Sous un nouveau jour are intergenerational groups of local participants. Through workshops, rehearsals and filming sessions, von Stockert invites the participants to take part in the various creative processes and appear in the photos and videos that give a new perspective on their community’s heritage.