Carte Blanche Alice Diop – Reformuler

In her first invitation to the Festival d’Automne, the Lisbon-based choreographer Marga Alfeirão uses dance and performance to shape so-called safe spaces. The latter invite the exploration of intimacy and sexuality. LOUNGE looks into rest as an active affirmation of femininity.

With its title which is by no means paradoxical, Silence is a concert by Lucie Antunes set to a choreography by Mathilde Monnier. The relationship with the music is the foundation for this multi-sensorial new work. The bodies respond to the rhythm as if it were a calling of some sort. And in doing so, silence becomes a score set into movement.

Becoming the guide for his own exhibition, Walid Raad returns to the Festival d’Automne and takes us on a stroll from Beirut to Tunis, and from the mountains of Lebanon to Ljubljana. Between missile craters and memory gaps, we gradually abandon the temptation to distinguish what is created from what is found, thereby prompting us to focus on what art and history do to images.