FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION
Open the 2025 Program
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Politics of psychoanalysis with Silvia Lippi, Fabrice Bourlez, and Florent Gabarron-Garcia, psychoanalysts; “Afropoetics and magical futurism” with Katia Dansoko Touré, author and journalist, and films by Frances Dobono, Cauleen Smith, Josefa Ntjam, and Riar Rizaldi.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Politicizing adult-child relationships with the Collectif des ami·es de Tal followed by a meeting with Juliet Drouar, conspiring and breathing with Loreto Martínez Troncoso & Julie Pellegrin, artist and curator.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Preparation meeting and workshop with Martin le Chevallier, artist ; encounter-performance with Chuglu, artist collective
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Radio show with the Queer Phoenix collective ; writing workshop “Speculative Genealogies” with Louise Bentkowski, author
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Workshop on the status of artists with Aurélien Catin, author and economic rights activist; Thinking about world conflicts with Benjamin Gizard, sociologue ; sociologist; The reversibilities of archaism with Frédéric Rambeau, philosopher; reading-concert by Laure Gauthier, poet, accompanied by Gauthier Keyaerts, musician.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Introduction to queer mysticism with Romain Noël, poète ; Artistic utopias of revolt with Julia Ramirez Blanco, art historian and activist; Discussion and tasting with Thomas Ferrand, artist and botanist; Performance between sky and sea with Diane Chéry, artiste
Exhibition
Under a geodesic dome, discover a program of films by artists, including Alicja Rogalska, Milena Bonilla, Deborah Stratman, Riar Rizaldi, Josefa Ntjam
27.07.2025
10 a.m. → 1 p.m.
The forgotten domination: Politicizing adult-child relationships
Collective review of the book “La domination oubliée: Politiser les rapports adulte-enfant” (Forgotten Domination: Politicizing Adult-Child Relationships) by Tal Piterbraut-Merx, published by Éditions Blast, 2024, in the presence of Tal's friends.
While power relations such as class, gender, and race are recognized as social constructs, adult domination over children is thought of as natural and thus escapes our vigilance. What strategies can be used to combat this forgotten domination? In this book, Tal Piterbraut-Merx denaturalizes and repoliticizes the ascendancy exercised by adults by approaching adult-child relationships through the prism of power dynamics. He proposes that we consider children as a class, dominated by their minority status, economic dependence, and educational practices, and that we return to the children we once were in order to break the silence we impose on them. The author calls on us to remain faithful to the children we once were by collectively remembering our childhoods. Tal Piterbraut-Merx was a researcher in political philosophy, writer, and activist.
Collectif des ami·es de Tal
A group of friends got together a few months after Tal Piterbraut-Merx’s suicide on October 25, 2021, to share and spread awareness of his research by helping to distribute his writings, which were published posthumously in several formats. Publishing his unfinished thesis on political philosophy seemed like a collective necessity, to keep alive what cannot die: his thinking. His thinking provides us with a solid foundation for analyzing a form of domination that affects us all, from our childhoods, which we sometimes struggle to remember, to adulthood, and in some cases to parenthood, by analyzing it as a relationship of domination.
The collective will be present to offer a collective reading of the book, in the form of a survey, which is a method of collective reading.
27.07.2025
2:00 p.m. → 3:30 p.m.
Cui-cui by Juliet Drouar
Reading and presentation of the book Cui-cui in the presence of Juliet Drouar, author
Juliet Douar’s first novel imagines a fictional world where minors have the right to vote and decision-making power.
“One of the great revelations of 2025. Carried by a language of rare inventiveness, Juliet Drouar’s narrative offers a new facet to the researcher’s work on the culture of incest.” Johan Faerber, Collatéral
Juliet Drouar
After being assigned female on November 18, 1986, in Angers, Juliet Drouar decided to try something different… A researcher on domination, therapist, and author of “Sortir de l’hétérosexualité” (Binge ed.), “La culture de l’inceste” (Seuil ed.) co-edited with Iris Brey, the article “Pour le droit de vote des mineur.es” published in the collective book “Politiser l’enfance” (Burnout ed.) and the novel “Cui Cui” (le Seuil ed.).
27.07.2025
4pm → 5pm
Epistolario, conversation between two or more voices
Performed reading by Loreto Martínez Troncoso & Julie Pellegrin
“Conspiring is breathing together” (1). For several years, Loreto Martínez Troncoso and Julie Pellegrin have been corresponding, part of which has been published in (Non) Performance: A Daily Practice (T&P Publishing, 2024). Weaving together descriptions of works, comments on the sociopolitical context, and accounts of readings and experiences, it unfolds through their voices, sound recordings, written words, gestures, and scores shared with the audience.
(1) This proclamation, championed by Radio Alice in the 1970s and taken up by Félix Guattari in his film project on free radio stations, served as the starting point for Poemarios garabato, a work by Loreto Martínez Troncoso.
Loreto Martínez Troncoso & Julie Pellegrin
Curator and art critic Julie Pellegrin is interested in performance and practices that raise social and political questions. She is currently conducting research on the links between performative practices and anarchist theories to understand how art can become the breeding ground for new political imaginaries when it embraces ungovernable ways of being and relating.
Loreto Martínez Troncoso uses writing, speech, voice, time, rhythm, breathing, and silence as her materials. Her work takes the form of public speeches, sound pieces, films, texts, and gestures. She also creates situations for plural and collective speech in order to “make the polyphony of our voices heard, juntas, together!”
Open the 2025 Program
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Politics of psychoanalysis with Silvia Lippi, Fabrice Bourlez, and Florent Gabarron-Garcia, psychoanalysts; “Afropoetics and magical futurism” with Katia Dansoko Touré, author and journalist, and films by Frances Dobono, Cauleen Smith, Josefa Ntjam, and Riar Rizaldi.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Politicizing adult-child relationships with the Collectif des ami·es de Tal followed by a meeting with Juliet Drouar, conspiring and breathing with Loreto Martínez Troncoso & Julie Pellegrin, artist and curator.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Preparation meeting and workshop with Martin le Chevallier, artist ; encounter-performance with Chuglu, artist collective
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Radio show with the Queer Phoenix collective ; writing workshop “Speculative Genealogies” with Louise Bentkowski, author
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Workshop on the status of artists with Aurélien Catin, author and economic rights activist; Thinking about world conflicts with Benjamin Gizard, sociologue ; sociologist; The reversibilities of archaism with Frédéric Rambeau, philosopher; reading-concert by Laure Gauthier, poet, accompanied by Gauthier Keyaerts, musician.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Introduction to queer mysticism with Romain Noël, poète ; Artistic utopias of revolt with Julia Ramirez Blanco, art historian and activist; Discussion and tasting with Thomas Ferrand, artist and botanist; Performance between sky and sea with Diane Chéry, artiste
Exhibition
Under a geodesic dome, discover a program of films by artists, including Alicja Rogalska, Milena Bonilla, Deborah Stratman, Riar Rizaldi, Josefa Ntjam