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 Nuotama 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
10 a.m. → 12 p.m.
Lawn of the Dieppe Castle Museum, free admission
The value of work & economic value. A workshop on the status of artists
A workshop with Aurélien Catin, author and economic rights activist
Starting from the conditions of self-employed workers in the arts, we will discuss the notion of “work value,” which is omnipresent in our media space, and the concept of “economic value,” which is now at the heart of production organization. This participatory workshop, designed using methods derived from popular education, will be an opportunity to discuss concrete solutions to the precariousness and alienation of art workers, in particular the proposed law on income continuity for artists and authors and the more distant project of social security for culture.
Aurélien Catin
Aurélien Catin is an economic rights activist. As a member of Réseau Salariat, he studies the possibilities of establishing a political right to wages, particularly in the field of visual arts. He is part of La Buse, a collective bringing together visual artists, curators, and researchers with the aim of improving the status of art workers.
He is the author of Notre condition. Essai sur le salaire au travail artistique (Riot Editions).
2pm → 3pm
Lawn of the Dieppe Castle Museum, free admission
Thinking world conflicts. Cosmo-operaist proposals
Lecture and discussion with Benjamin Gizard, sociologist
Contemporary anthropology and philosophy have taught us to think about the plurality of worlds. How can we think about the political relationships of conflict and alliance that weave through, traverse, and oppose them? To answer this question, I propose looking to operaism, and more specifically to its concept of the point of view of antagonism. Combining this concept of point of view with the idea of the plurality of worlds allows us to outline what I call cosmo-operaism, a speculative proposition from which to re-examine contemporary political scenes.
Benjamin Gizard
Benjamin Gizard is a doctoral student at EHESS (CEMS) under the supervision of Geneviève Pruvost and Stéphane Haber. He is also a bookseller. His work focuses on feminist, environmentalist, and anarchist reinterpretations of the history of the birth of capitalism. He has published in the journals Terrestres, Lundi matin, De(s)générations, ¿ Interrogations ? and Implications philosophiques. He has just published “À quoi joue l’anthropologie ? Wittgenstein contre la bourgeoisie” in Mythe et langage. Remarks on The Golden Bough (Bordeaux, La tempête, 2025) with Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Graeber, and Ghislain Casas. He also participates in the organization of the seminar La division politique at La Parole Errante (Montreuil) and at Éditions Météores (Brussels).
3pm → 4pm
Lawn of the Dieppe Castle Museum, free admission
The reversibilities of archaism
Lecture and discussion with Frédéric Rambeau, philosopher
“We must not be afraid of archaism,” Marx once said. Yet today, this fear has returned as a leitmotif. Resurrected in the dominant discourse to disqualify resistance to neoliberal reforms, it is also provoked, confusingly, by the growing reaffirmation of collective identities of an identitarian, religious, or national-statist nature. Nevertheless, archaisms can also harbor emancipatory potential. When they break away from the certainty that capitalism is the end of progress, and when they resist the ordering of rebellious thought into ruling thought, popular uprisings discover in archaism unrealized possibilities and antagonistic subjective resources.
Frédéric Rambeau
Frédéric Rambeau is a lecturer at Paris 8 Vincennes/Saint-Denis University. His research combines philosophy, politics, and psychoanalysis, focusing in particular on the construction of subjectivity and theories of subjectivation in contemporary French philosophy. He is the author of Michel Foucault, La volonté de savoir (Gallimard, 2006); Les secondes vies du sujet. Deleuze, Foucault, Lacan (Hermann, 2016); and À contre-temps. Révolte, archaïsme et capitalisme (Puf, 2023).
4pm → 5pm
Lawn of the Dieppe Castle Museum, free admission
« Melusine Reloaded »
Lecture-concert by Laure Gauthier, poet, accompanied by Gauthier Keyaerts, musician
Part feminist fable, part ecological dystopia, part futuristic tale, her first novel, Melusine Reloaded (Corti, Prix du premier roman 2024), transposes the mythical snake fairy into a near, polluted future, where language is reduced to acronyms and ZATs (Augmented Tourist Zones) entertain TT (Transient Tourists). Half-woman, half-serpent, Melusine returns to propose other ways of inhabiting the world and escaping the pretences of a post-democratic world.
Laure Gauthier offers a journey through “Mélusine Reloaded” in several poetic and musical tableaux to question our relationship with nature, the social system, and the transmission of myths. With Gauthier Kayerts, who creates universes, “sound sculptures,” and installations, and will develop a sound universe in six “archipelagos.”
Laure Gauthier & Gauthier Kayerts
Laure Gauthier conceives her texts as spaces of vigilance. In them, she questions both the place of sensitivity, particularly of voice and touch, in an ultra-rationalized world, and the place of documents and archives in the experience of individual and political violence. She has recently published several books of poetry: kaspar de pierre (La lettre volée, 2017), je neige (entre les mots de villon) (LansKine, 2018), les corps caverneux (LansKine 2022) and la cité dolente (LansKine, 2023), as well as essays, notably: d’un lyrisme l’autre, la création entre poésie et musique au XXIe s, MF, 2022.
She has recently published the following poetry collections: Kaspar de pierre (La lettre volée, 2017), Je neige (entre les mots de Villon) (LansKine, 2018), Les corps caverneux (LansKine 2022) and La cité dolente (LansKine, 2023), and essays: D’un lyrisme l’autre, la création entre poésie et musique au XXIe s, MF, 2022.
She is accompanied by musician Gauthier Kayerts.
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 Nuotama 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