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
31.07.2025
10 a.m. → 12 p.m.
Phoenix Queer Radio Station
Radio show and discussion with the Queer Phoenix collective
Based in Dieppe and the surrounding area, the Queer Phoenix collective fights against discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people. This radio show will discuss local experiences.
31.07.2025
2pm → 5pm
Reading of “Constellucination” and writing workshop “Speculative Genealogies”
with Louise Bentkowski, author
For the festival, Louise Bentkowski will offer a reading of selected excerpts from her text Constellucination (Éditions Verdier, 2024), a hallucinatory genealogical investigation in which she seeks to expand her family tree through writing itself, as well as a writing workshop on speculative genealogy. We will explore different ways of writing “family fictions,” both personal and invented, other possible ways of connecting with the world.
“I would like to expand my family tree from my own stories, connect them to worlds as far away as possible, delve into the past and history of this family fiction, search far from myself, in other cultures, other myths, and sew it all together. Sewing, that is, assembling with stitches made with thread passed through the eye of a needle. I would call it a Constellucination, and if asked, I would explain that it is a large multicolored patchwork floating just above the surface of the water.”
Louise Bentkowski
Louise Bentkowski is an author and director based in Pantin. Born in 1988, she initially worked in theater for around ten years in Paris, Strasbourg, and Geneva. Since 2019, she has been experimenting with hybrid writing styles, ranging from novels to poetry, exploring fragmentary forms that unfold through interwoven narratives.
In September 2024, her first novel, Constellucination, received the Inrockuptibles First Novel Prize. Louise Bentkowski also publishes texts in collective books and journals (La relève #1 ed. Notabilia, Festina Lente #3, La femelle du requin n°60). On stage, in bookstores, and in art spaces, she offers performance readings of her texts, notably at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris and the Actoral festival in Marseille.
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