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Gogaytte

PerformanceWorkshop

Food, gender and sexuality
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14.09.25 · 17h

Langues : FR

14+

Duration: 1h

Place: Riches-Claires

Gogaytte is a collaborative performance, the result of a series of workshops given in the run-up to the festival by Mélina Ghorafi at Le Poisson Sans Bicyclette. In collaboration with culinary duo T2T, the participants developed songs about their bodies and identities. They invite you to attend the performance of their songs, where the audience is invited to help prepare phytohormone drinks created in collaboration with T2T.

A goguette is a festive practice in which a group of people, mostly men, gather to sing around a feast. The first singing societies of this kind date back several centuries. They developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with the famous Société du Caveau founded in 1729, the pioneer of goguettes at the time.
The Société du Caveau published a collection of songs, La femme / par les membres du Caveau, which were sung at the Summer Banquet on 21 June 1862. Each guest, having previously drawn a part of the body, composed a song about the part they had drawn and sang it at the banquet. The text produced by this goguette is highly sexist and heterocisnormative.

Mélina Ghorafi organised a series of writing and singing workshops proposing a reversal of this paradigm by bringing together women and queer people, bodies oppressed by patriarchal society, to create a goguette in which we would sing about our own bodies, in our own terms. During these workshops, the duo T2T proposed a culinary exploration of the relationship between food and gender, in response to the invitation from la Gogaytte. During the workshops at Poisson Sans Bicyclette, the participants developed recipes with different effects on the voice. They will be experimenting with how the voice can be thought out, deployed and strengthened, in particular through the use of ingredients that modify hormonal levels.

During the workshops at Poisson Sans Bicyclette, participants developed recipes with different effects on the voice. They will be experimenting with how the voice can be thought out, deployed and strengthened, in particular through the use of ingredients that modify hormonal levels.
During the public performance, spectators will be invited to join in the Gogaytte by cooking these beverages together, while listening to the songs composed during the workshops. The event will end with a collective tasting session.

Mélina Ghorafi
Mélina Ghorafi is a French interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Brussels. Her work focuses mainly on questions around the aesthetics of violence, its languages, and more particularly its relationship to women and sexuality. Through research, texts, songs and performances, she invents a language that draws its sources from the crossroads between queer sensibilities and the traditional aesthetics of misogyny: she has made this her main project, MUSOGYNIE, a museum of misogyny, its imaginaries and muses. She creates ‘fakelores’, reappropriating the French oral tradition to rewrite traditional songs. Her work and texts have been published in CENSORED and Papier Machine. In 2023, she exhibited her MUSOGYNIE collection at the Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson as part of the group show Les Sillons #1. In 2024 she took part in 100% L'EXPO at La Villette and the Jerk Off Festival in Paris, and sang bawdy lesbian songs for the opening of Pink Screens in Brussels. melinaghorafi.com
T2T
The T2T project offers experimental cooking workshops on food and hormonal transitions. Leo Ren and Flo*Souad develop vegan recipes inspired by their Moroccan and Japanese cultural influences and research into phyto-hormones. Cooking together is a time to explore new possibilities, tastes and bodily experiences.
Thanks to
Le Poisson Sans Bicyclette – T2T – FAME
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