A little noise to bring magic back to the world
The word “lesson,” past a certain age, starts taking on a somewhat negative connotation... And it is in that interstice created by the pride of adulthood that fake knowledge and real ignorance often lodge themselves. And it is in the one created by this remarkable and childish exercise that we can find a way to bring magic back to our relationship to knowledge and culture. In the nine years since the Lessons from the University were first created, it hasn't been an uncommon sight to see eyebrows raise at the idea that the word “lesson” could be the right one to talk about a speech delivered at a festival like the Festival d'Avignon. Yet this exercise, at once humble and pretentious, forces us to listen intently and for a long time to an uninterrupted speech, and to accept the silences of the speaker.
Distribution
With Hassan El Geretly
Hosted by Laure Adler
Amphitheatre AT01 of the Sainte-Marthe campus of the University of Avignon, about 50 yards from the Louis Pasteur campus
University of Avignon and the Vaucluse
74, rue Louis-Pasteur - Avignon
univ-avignon.fr
