The Roman de Fauvel is a fourteenth-century work of political satire that tells the story of a conceited horse named Fauvel who rises to power amidst corruption and economic decay. Working with the medieval music ensemble, Concordian Dawn, under the direction of medieval musical scholar, Christopher Preston Thompson, I created visuals to be projected alongside a series of concerts of the Roman de Fauvel, which took place in February 2024 at the San Francisco Conservatory, UC Davis, and Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oakland, and in February of 2025 at the New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos performance center. My accompanying visuals included drawings that quoted imagery from one of the original manuscript editions of the play produced by Chaillou de Pesstain (F-Pn fonds fr. 146), as well as digital collages using images pulled from contemporary media.
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