Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot, Antoine Mermet

If tenderness is a territory, then competition, control and demands for productivity certainly do not figure within it, even if they are omnipresent more or less everywhere else. For the bodies which enter into this, as yet, little explored territory, it is about learning, once again, how to listen and respect each other, and live side-by-side. Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet invite the audience to try their hand at this ethic. This is done by means of an experimental process based upon archive material, interviews carried out with queer militants and with workshops attended by the general public during each period of residence. From out of this emerged a form which situates itself between show, place of learning and gathering. We are invited into a safe, but porous place in which vulnerability becomes something to be shared and the awareness of our desires is only negotiable once those of others has been taken into account. Summoning a mixture of writing, spoken word, song and movement, Variations on Tenderness opens up the prospect of a radical form of being together.