16 – 24 March

Voir clair avec Monique Wittig

Created by the collective Damechevaliers in collaboration with Gisèle Vienne and featuring Caro Geryl and Adèle Haenel, this evening blends reading, music and performance around Monique Wittig’s thinking. The piece draws on “La pensée straight” and gathers texts by Monique Wittig, Sarah Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Elsa Dorlin to examine gendered hierarchies and the political logics that assign social roles. The staging is intimate and interrogative, mixing voice, sound and performative gestures.

In French.

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

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