Intermède. 2022. Directed by Maria Kourkouta Le chant des oubliés. 2022. Directed by Luc Decaster
About This Event
At the Museum of Modern Art, live presentations of Intermède (2022), directed by Maria Kourkouta, and Le chant des oubliés (2022), directed by Luc Decaster, bring the two artists' recent collaborations to a shared program. Kourkouta's work moves between performance and cinema, often built around voice and text, while Decaster works in a free-form documentary mode that foregrounds direct testimony and political memory through paced scenes.
About Intermède
Intermède is a live event presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, with performances by Maria Kourkouta and Luc Decaster. The work moves in an open, “free” register, treating the museum as a site where sound, gesture, and attention can be rearranged in real time. In the context of NYC’s long history of experimental performance inside art institutions, it reads as a small intervention rather than a fixed program. Its most telling quality is its refusal to resolve into a single, stable meaning.
About the Artists
Maria Kourkouta
Maria Kourkouta is an artist and director whose work moves between performance and cinema, often built around voice, text, and live presence. In New York City, her projects have appeared at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), including the live program *Intermède* (2022), which she directed.
Luc Decaster
Luc Decaster is an individual artist working in a free-form documentary mode, with work presented in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). His directing credits include *Qui a tué Ali Ziri?* (2015) and *Le chant des oubliés* (2022), both shown as live events at MoMA.