2023-11-17 09:05:16
At the Camargo Foundation, Elsa Dorlin and Gisèle Vienne began a collaboration around a joint reflection on the frameworks of perception and in particular on the perception of violence. Through their respective works and works, they initiated a dialogue on situated creation, not as a “woman philosopher” or “woman artist”, but from works, universes and writings which are part of a framework social, phenomenal, symbolic and corporeal, taking a position in the politics of knowledge and artistic creation, and which draw their strength from points of view located. These perspectives work on the gap, the crudeness and the dissonant: they are critical of language, of representation, of the commonly accepted meaning of shared reality.
What is violence? what events, what scenes, what images and words, what fantasies and what stories of relationships of domination, go unnoticed, are deemed acceptable, even desirable, confirm and reinforce a system of norms that leave us in comfort, the expected, complacency or denial? And in this framework or through this prism, what lived experiences of violence are delegitimized or distorted, what crass realities, what existences and what stories are erased, passed over in silence? From two approaches, two different disciplines, Gisèle Vienne and Elsa Dorlin work to deconstruct, analyze and undermine these theoretical and cultural, symbolic and political mediations and devices, to start once more from gesture and flesh, from movement and duration, from fantasy and ideology, the look, the cry and the whisper, the memory of cultures of resistance and struggles: bringing to the forefront the density, the complexity of reality, but also other libraries, other genealogies of thought, other imaginaries of reference.
During the residency at Camargo, the exchanges gave rise to the recording of a dialogue between them, which will become a series of podcasts produced by the National Dance Center where the exchange continues, notably through a reflection on the history and philosophy of dance. With the Camargo Foundation, the collaboration will continue: in this space-time of reflection and creation, echoing works, alliances and artistic and political paths, a movement, a critical chorus are woven over the long term.
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