Dignity in the body, Contemporary racialized heroes are told. When discrimination are invited to bed, How to fix yourself, Shall and get used to it? An invitation to decolonize our collective imaginations.
"As a black woman adopted, I need to kill my own racism. These meetings concern us all., They act as a revealer of collective imaginary in motion. ” Lucile Saada Choquet
In a large wooden structure surrounded by semi-transparent curtains, The performer Lucile Saada Choquet welcomes racialized people on a bed, Perceived as black, Arabs, Berbers, Asian, Latinas or Métisse. Each meeting takes place on a head for 30 minutes, The guest is invited to discuss his relationship to the bed, to bodies and our inheritances. The installation even in our beds is a space-time dedicated to non-productionivity, Giving pride of place to vulnerability and listening to heroons racialized contemporary. From the common experience of the racial load, Lucile Saada Choquet weaves links between her guests. It is a work of memory of the colonial trauma that impacts each differently. This installation is trying to repair us collectively with those who speak and those who learn to listen. This first artistic gesture is apprehensive as a gift made to everyone, Where we dream of a collective management of systematically minorized narrations.
Through this performative installation, Lucile Saada Choquet builds a room for oneself, Resolutely open to the word of the other. Starting from the story of his condition as a woman adopted, She invites people whose voices and bodies are rarely represented on contemporary scenes to be expressed publicly. With her, The participants draw a common narrative territory, diversified and generous, where invisible experiences are divided. Together, iels weave the sons with everyday resistance, And engage an extremely concrete militant gesture. The presence of the bed is pretext to speak sleep, hair, rituals, love, Sexualities ... A way of repoliticizing privacy spaces: how does the systemic racism of our societies penetrate into the intimate?
Real theatrical investigation, Even in our beds visits words too often ignored in cultural institutions, And offers us to rethink our ability to hear them by agreeing to be jostled in our privileges. By involving the spectators in a deeply active listening, Lucile Saada Choquet invites us at a time both sweet and revolutionary, To try to reinvent our common horizons.
Theater / performance / Installation / Creation