24 – 26 November

Radio Live – La Relève

Radio Live – La Relève presents a cross-disciplinary performance-installation that sketches the portrait of an engaged young generation. In a scenographic installation blending radio atmospheres and documentary, the piece investigates memory and shifting identities through a hybrid interplay of sound, image and spontaneous speech. Participants from Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine, Rwanda, India and France share testimonies; performers alternate (Martin France, Amir Hassan, Yannick Kamanzi, Oksana Leuta, Hala Rajab, Sumeet Samos, Ines Tanovic). The staging is intimate and investigative in tone.

In French.

Esplanade Alice-Bailly 1,
1207 Genève
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Photo Credit: DR

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