GRAND MAGASIN Quelqu’un se sert de mes objets familiers

By means of an evolving stage mechanism, taken up with discursive performance, alternative pedagogy and an excercise in free-thinking, the latest show from GRAND MAGASIN picks up on snatches of philosophy as if they were one of many domestic objects to be shared. 

The show revolves around collecting philosophical fragments according to their affinity in terms of vocabulary and sonorities, and then saying them out loud whilst trying to understand them at the same time. This is the principle of these "thought transmissions" which journey, from semantic shifts into temporal gaps, and approach these erudite quotes as if they were poetic texts. Six orators, initially spread out across different rooms, with an audience divided up into small groups in front of them, deliver sentences by Malebranche, Stein, Condillac, Arendt, Bergson and Heidegger, which have been taken out of their context and freely associated with each other. In this exercise, GRAND MAGASIN link gesture and spoken word together, thereby experimenting with the different ways of incorporating knowledge. After a series of simultaneous solo interventions, the performers form duos, trios and sextets as the audience slowly comes back together. Here, philosophy is to be seized upon as if it were a family treasure passed on from hand to hand, or rather from spirit to spirit, like going from one room into another.