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Writing workshop

Future bodiesFuture policies
© Titanne-Bregentzer

25.09.24 · 17h

Language : FR

All audiences

Duration: 2h

Place: Riches-Claires

Book
Find what protects you. What makes the future more beautiful? Aliette Griz and La Maison des Femmes of Molenbeek-Move ASBL will be running a reading and sharing workshop around this question, with Aliette Griz's poetic card game and Gaëlle Clark's TUKTUK.

What makes the future more beautiful? Aliette Griz will be taking the TUKTUK book tour upstream of FAME to explore this question, which also raises questions about our relationship with what we call culture, as the physical and symbolic space that enables us to experience beauty. TUKTUK heads to FAME for a presentation and a moment of writing, before a recorded reading will take place. This reading will feature a series of pieces chosen by the participants, the women of the Maison des Femmes-Move ASBL, and Les Quenouilles, a radio collective. A general reflection to question our relationship with culture as we invent it as artists, programmers, mediators, producers and technicians in a festival under the banner of FAME. What does it really mean? A poetic and political approach.

 

THIS SUMMER :

This question, “What makes the future more beautiful”? will be asked in the run-up to FAME, during workshops with groups who come together to work with words and invent the culture of today and perhaps tomorrow away from the spotlight. This question will also be posed in the street, with Gaëlle Clark’s TUKTUK book tour, a mobile device that moves out of places dedicated to culture and offers deconstructed aesthetic experiences.

 

DURING THE FESTIVAL :

A TUKTUK ride for an hour or two through the streets, in the direction of the workshop/performance venue, will be a first moment open to all FAME audiences. During the workshop at the Théâtre des Riches-Claires, we’ll get to know the TUKTUK as well as Aliette Griz’s “cherche ce qui te protège” drawer and deck of poetic cards. Afterwards, there will be a collective public reading with the participants in the day’s workshop, led by Les Quenouilles, a variable-geometry collective that has been meeting every 1st Wednesday of the month for the last seven years on Radio Panik, at the Théâtre des Riches-Claires that evening.

A proposal by Aliette Griz, in association with the FAME festival team, Gaëlle Clark and her TUKTUK, the radio collective Les Quenouilles, La Maison des Femmes-Move ASBL, the writing collective Modesta, the Aladar group, the Voix des Sans Papiers de Bruxelles.

Aliette Griz
Aliette Griz From blog to book, from community radio to documentary film, in workshops or off the record, Aliette Griz explores writing in a variety of media, alone or with others. Poetry is her Macguffin*.
TUKTUK BOOK TOUR
TUKTUK BOOK TOUR is a travelling project led by Gaëlle Clark, who designs and presents original mediation systems around artists’ books. Each artist invited has been given a wooden drawer in which to create an exhibition of one or more of their books. The drawers form a collection, representing different facets of the realities presented in the artists’ books. The tours take the TUKTUK, a travelling cabinet of curiosities, exhibition space, and nomadic workshop through the city. We take advantage of the TUKTUK’s intrusion into reality, a poetic vehicle that moves to the rhythm of its movement, generating surprise and ‘letting the spectator in’ to the exhibition drawers. The spectator is then invited to talk, proclaim, write, or make, before departing again. The tours are somewhat spontaneous. There is not necessarily a preplanned group who will follow the tour, rather, the tour is designed to encourage brief or in-depth encounters between the works and the people present in the places that it passes through –streets, parks, squares, in queues, on benches… The plan is to get out and approach the people of the neighbourhood, in their natural habitat, exactly as they are. In other words, the tour is oriented towards the inhabitants caught in the moment, in passing or in waiting, most often unfamiliar with contemporary art practices.
Gaëlle Clark
Gaëlle Clark is an artist-educator, exhibition curator, and artist's book mediator. She develops and coordinates projects rooted in the values of cultural democracy. She began her career in theatre before moving on to public libraries. Drawing on her fifteen years' experience of running and coordinating the Collection de Livres d'Artiste (CLA, Brussels), she now runs a travelling library and street reading project based around artists' books (TUKTUK BOOK TOUR) and supports unique publishing projects. At the same time, she works as a teacher (CESEP / Reading and Writing practices with images and text) and is an active member of the Syndicat des immenses - acronym for Individus dans une Merde Matérielle Enorme mais Non Sans Exigences (Individuals in an Enormous Material Shitstorm but Not Without demands).
La Maison des Femmes
La Maison des Femmes is a service dedicated to the emancipation, autonomy and self-esteem. It is aimed at women in general, and women living in Molenbeek in particular. Every first Wednesday of the month, Les Quenouilles and their guests - plural and non-binary feminist voices examine a word from 7pm to 8.30pm on Radio Panik - 105.4 FM BXL. Live. The words are drawn at random from the dictionary’s light or dense columns and the explorations of these words are improvised or as accurate as can be. We try to echo real-world contexts and scales, from the intimate to the global. With Aliette, Milady, Margaux, Karine, Mathilde, Gaëlle, Blister Fleg, Pauline, Lise, Sylvia, Yamna, Leslie, Wetsi, Anissa, Anouk, Delphine, Roxane, Seyma, Octavie, Fanny, Soledad, EkstraPaul, Rima, Teresa, Christine, Emilie, Fatma, Bintou, Haleh, Mariana, Caroline, Mélanie, ... and other fixed or fluid femmes. Rebroadcast on the 4th Saturday of each month at 8.30am. Happy podcast(er)s after each show. 8th season in 2023-2024, here we go!
Modesta
Modesta is a writing collective founded in Brussels in 2021. Its members come together to work on and produce texts of all kinds at all stages of their process, including writing and publication, printing and distribution. They also take part in public events (exhibitions, micro-openings, festivals) and run workshops on writing and books to encourage the practice of literature which is open to all and can be combined with other art forms. They also plan a literature disco and eat frozen croquettes on a Monday night...
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