And then we stopped scrolling · A Walk

Walk

Future bodiesFuture policies

25.09.24 · 15h

Languages : FR

All audiences

No reservation required

Duration: 2h

Place: Public space

Look for what protects you. What makes the future more beautiful? A participatory and poetic stroll with Aliette Griz and Gaëlle Clark around the Tuk tuk, from Ixelles to the heart of FAME.

What makes the future more beautiful? Aliette Griz will be taking the Tuk tuk 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. Tuk tuk 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 Tuk tuk book tour, a mobile device that moves out of places dedicated to culture and offers deconstructed aesthetic experiences.

DURING THE FESTIVAL A walk with the Tuk tuk, between Ixelles and the Théâtre des Riches-Claires will be the first moment of FAME’s opening. This will be followed by a workshop to discover the Tuk tuk and share ideas about the culture of the future and what makes it beautiful at the Théâtre des Riches-Claires. At the end of the workshop, there will be a public reading of the texts selected and produced over the summer and during the workshop, hosted by the radio collective Les Quenouilles

A proposal by Aliette Griz, in association with the FAME festival team, Gaëlle Clark and her Tuk tuk, 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).