Bouchra Khalili
Astérismes (Fig. 1) : The Tempest Society
septembersept 25 - december – dec 25
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Thursday september 25
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Friday september 26
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Saturday september 27
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Sunday september 28
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Thursday october 2
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Thursday november 27
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Sunday november 30
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Thursday december 4
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Friday december 5
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Saturday december 6
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Thursday december 11
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Friday december 12
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Saturday december 13
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Sunday december 14
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Thursday december 18
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Friday december 19
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Saturday december 20
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Sunday december 21
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Tuesday december 23
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Thursday december 25
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Artist Bouchra Khalili. Commissariat Clément Dirié.
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is the managing director of the exhibitions, in co-production with T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National. Festival d'Automne à Paris, the
T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National and L'Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe present these exhibitions in co-realisation.
Bouchra Khalili is the visual arts guest at the 2025 edition of the Festival d'Automne. Born in 1975 in Casablanca, she lives in Vienna, Austria and works in an itinerant manner. For more than twenty years, she has been producing rigorously conceived works that function as visual and discursive hypotheses, and which take into account the contemporary issues of art and the world. Her work seeks to overturn geographies, narratives and official histories in order to restore depth and precision to reality and its protagonists. Bringing together recent works and new productions, her project entitled Astérismes (Fig. 1 à 3) takes to three theatre stages its exploration of the links between the representation of long-lost stories, performance art and moving images.
Asterism: from the Greek "astêr" (star), meaning constellation. Fig. : abbreviation of figure. 1, 2, 3: sequence of numbers extending beyond the binary.
With her multi-venue and multidisciplinary project Astérismes (Fig. 1 à 3), Bouchra Khalili unveils a constellation of narratives articulating past and present in order to project common futures. The project is the product of long-term research on the Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes, which was active in the 1970s, in addition to its theatre groups Al Assifa and Al Halaka (meaning "Storm" and "Circle", respectively). This research also looks into ancestral forms of transmission of collective speech in Morocco, via storytellers and public writers. Together, they were the inspiration behind the MTA's theatre-based strategies. The works presented in each of the three venues respond to and complement each other. They bring to the stage different representations of memory, transmission and myth, collective action and public space, as well as the figures of the artist and the performer.
At the T2G theatre, The Tempest Society (2017) video installation, conceived in Athens, the cradle of theatre and democracy, reactivates Al Assifa's theatre-based strategies in the light of the successive crises experienced by modern day Greece. By exploring the definitions of citizenship and the potential of theatre, the work draws up the imaginary contours of a future community in which the freedom of movement of the spoken word and historical awareness are linked.
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