DV8 / Lloyd Newson

What should we do with the bodies of the dead? In Antigone, this question enabled Sophocles to illustrate the limits of political power in the face of the sacred. In his latest work, Alexander Zeldin sheds light upon the atomisation of pain and suffering that characterises the times we live in.

A mother and son. Throughout her life, she has done a host of different jobs in order to support the family. He has dedicated his life to theatre. Together, the stage becomes a tool for unfurling their different existences, caught up at the intersection of capitalism inherited violence.

In 2025, the Festival d’Automne launched an Evening School in partnership with the Centre Pompidou to create an alternative, non-academic space for knowledge-sharing, designed to bring audiences together around a thought-provoking programme where artistic practice is combined with the audience’s experience. Following an inaugural edition conceived with Felwine Sarr, the 2026 Evening School has been conferred to Forensic Architecture. Under the direction of Eyal Weizman, this research agency, composed of investigators from different disciplines, with its base at Goldsmiths, University of London, develops methods of enquiry into state-perpetrated acts of violence, at the crossroads between art, law and journalism.