L'hors-présence
ou Chimères du pays de Morsan
- Show
- Theatre
- Tiphaine Raffier
La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon
Duration : 2h30
Observing, questioning, experimenting, analysing, inventing: artists and scientists are often driven by the same curiosity. Through their respective approaches, researchers and artists offer new perspectives on human experience; their work nourishes and deepens our understanding of the world.
Conceived as a vibrant space for dialogue and exchange, these Encounters – reimagined in both format and modes of interaction – bring together the approaches, methods and themes that run through both artistic creation and scientific research. Over two days, artists and scientists share knowledge, confront viewpoints and open up the discussion to the public.
At the heart of this edition, questioning emerges as a driving force: questioning the world, questioning the works, questioning our certainties. Evil, death, traces of the past, family and the relationships within it, and “constrained” speech: through five theatrical works, these Encounters offer an opportunity to collectively explore what haunts and connects us, by addressing the unspeakable. In the spirit of the Festival d’Avignon, these exchanges invite everyone to exercise their curiosity freely — and never stop questioning.
THURSDAY 9 JULY
How Do We Say Goodbye?
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Daria Deflorian, actor, playwright and director of Che dolore terribile è l’amore
Éric Vautrin, dramaturg and artistic advisor
“Inhabiting / Haunting: Ghosts and Domesticity”
By Grégory Delaplace, Director of Studies in Anthropology, EPHE
“Without Separation: Han Kang with, against or without Korea’s Historians?”
By Alain Delissen, Director of Studies in History, EHESS
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Tiphaine Raffier, actor, playwright and director of L’hors-présence ou Chimères du pays de Morsan
“Should We Save Death? Definitive and Universal Absence Cannot Be Replaced.”
By Marie-Frédérique Bacqué, Professor of Clinical Psychopathology, University of Strasbourg
“Off-Screen: Sculpting the Unspoken”
By Marie Kondrat, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Lausanne
FRIDAY 10 JULY
Family Stories
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Muriel Imbach, director of Nous ou le paradoxe du hérisson
Audrey Célestine, Associate Professor of History and Political Sociology, New York University
“How Can We Gather Children’s Voices? Reflections on Two Studies of Children’s Political Socialisation”
By Julie Pagis, CNRS Research Fellow in Political Science
4:00–5:30 p.m.
François Gremaud, author, actor and director of Mon Frère
Christian Gremaud, actor
Jennifer Lesage-David, author, director, filmmaker and co-director of the International Visual Theatre
“The International Visual Theatre (IVT): A Stage for Aesthetic and Political Experimentation at the Origin of France’s ‘Deaf Awakening’”
By Andrea Benvenuto, Associate Professor of Philosophy, EHESS
“Deafman Glance by Robert Wilson: A Theatre of Images”
By Emeline Jouve, Professor of American Literature and Theatre, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
