What would it mean to consider children as political subjects, as full-fledged citizens? Could we combine our parentage, our genealogies, our family fictions in the future? How can we restore psychoanalysis’ powers of emancipation, creation, sisterhood, and tact? What might eco-pedagogy looks like? Can we write a different history of the birth of capitalism? Can we conspire, breathe together? These are some of the questions that will be explored at the 2025 edition, which will be held outdoors on the lawns of the Château de Dieppe, under a Bedouin-inspired tent, as well as during an evening of screenings at Dieppe Scène Nationale.

As the issue of children’s domination finds its way into public discourse, can we consider children as a dominated class? From children’s republics, where communities largely inspired by progressive education and self-management, in which children elected governments and courts with experimental teaching methods that sought to imagine institutions of decision-making exercised by children, to the activist and environmentalist children of the 21st century, another history could be written, one that restores to children their power to act and be subjects of law. In Cui-cui (2025), novelist Juliet Douar imagines a utopia where children have the right to vote and decision-making power.

The collective of friends of philosopher Tal Piterbraut-Merx invites you to explore and read together his posthumous book La domination oubliée (Forgotten Domination), which encourages us to collectively remember the children we once were in order to break the silence imposed on children.
Based on her story Constellucination, author Louise Bentkowski will offer a writing workshop inviting participants to use speculative genealogy to rewrite different ways of reinventing our kinships and our “family fictions.”

While questions of mental health and care are becoming increasingly pressing today, psychoanalysts Silvia Lippi, Fabrice Bourlez, and Florent Gabarron-Garcia will discuss the contemporary repoliticization of psychoanalysis, which invites us to rethink psychoanalysis as an engaged practice, a “living therapeutic enterprise,” drawing in particular on feminist thought.
The School of Impatiences 2025 will continue its focus on ecological impatience and the vast cosmological project that now accompanies it. At the crossroads of environmental, ecofeminist, and anarchist thought, philosopher Benjamin Gizard will revisit new ways of recounting the origins of capitalism, while Frédéric Rambeau will ask whether revolt is an archaism and how we can reappropriate the affirmative powers of archaism.

At a historic moment when the future is unevenly distributed, magical futurisms draw on the powers of minerals and Mother Nature, the internet and technology, ancestral rituals and science fiction, African mythologies and the magic of the cosmos. We will focus on these Afro-poetic cinemas and magical futurisms in the presence of author and journalist Katia Dansoko Touré, and films by Nuotama Frances Bodomo, Cauleen Smith, Riar Rizaldi, Alicja Rogalska, Milena Bonilla, and Deborah Stratman. Artist and botanist Nicolas Ferrand will share his research on edible wild plants found in the city of Dieppe.

Artist Martin Le Chevallier invites you to join him in reenacting gestures from his Répertoire des subversions (Repertoire of Subversions), which lists a series of jubilant tactics invented by artists and activists. Part feminist fable, part ecological dystopia, and part futuristic tale, poet Laure Gauthier will give a reading and concert from her book Mélusine Reloaded. The Queer Phoenix collective will present a queer radio show, evoking local experiences in Dieppe, while poet Romain Noël, during a collective reading and writing session, will explore queer as a mystical concept. Co-author of a proposed law on income continuity for artists and authors and the more distant project of Social Security for Culture, Aurélien Catin will offer a workshop on the economic status of artists.

Based on their research on dance and anarchy, and during a conference-performance-workshop, art historian Julie Pellegrin and artist Loreto Martinez Troncoso will invite us to connect, breathe, and conspire together. Art historian Julia Ramirez Blanco will revisit the artistic dimension of utopian revolts. With a background in performance art, the CHUGLU collective stages happenings in public spaces, moments where art and life merge, and will invite you to participate in these collective sharing experiences. Diane Chéry will close the festival with a collective performance-stroll between sky and sea, intertwining dance, painting, and textiles.

Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quirós