… the work of Tarabo is torn with the image of a Hermann Nitsch with which one compares it by a paroxist attitude. Ls transgression, erotomania and cruelty of inspiration more or less sadienne make the ballet shredded of impressive
mechanics…
D.Aubé, Libération.
… A whole series of more unimaginable inventions ones than the others… Drawn up rats turn their wheels in a ceaseless din, iron resounds in the to and from of the mechanisms with the squeaking sound of the mégaphonie…
J.Boedec, Paris-Normandie.
… The Sets of Irons offer an alchemical ground of experimentation where the sufferings are transformed paradoxically into dazzling spectacle. A transmutation which would have allured George Bataille and the surrealist ones. As brutal as it is, this magic is essential without unhealthy and free violence, moved exhibitionnism, artificial and noisy declaration…
Le Saône et Loire
… These machines make us go up time. Such Léonard de Vinci, Olivier Tarabo works machines without names, alarming and splendid, all conceived around the human body…
J.F.G. Le journal de Saône et Loire.
… the Sets of Irons have the force, the beauty and the mystery of the great events which surprise and which one does not forget…
P.Layac, Chalon dans da Rue
… More than one hour of dance, music and fury in a populated universe of musics and strange machines able to tickle the memories and to awake forgotten feelings. These cruel machines handled until the extreme seem organized according to a logic relentless. And if this cruel din illustrates the vital and sexual functions human being, it can also be perceived like a virulent satire of the industrial company. Olivier Tarabo takes again the torch of the performances developed by the Fluxus movement in the Sixties.
John Cage gave diverting concerts then or it broke silence but as its piano estimating as a concrete sound was to come directly from its source. The dance of the sensors or the dancers produces themselves the sound partition thanks to electric sensors placed on their body seems well to answer this kind of concerns…
S.Cattoire, FR3
