Pamina de Coulon
+ More info- Live performance
- maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- 1h15
- Pass Latitudes
Fire of emotions : Maledizione
What connects plastic, the Middle Ages, stalagmites and curses? MALEDIZIONE, the epic piece by the performance artist Pamina de Coulon, will give us a couple of clues, but only if we agree to leave our preconceptions at the door.
She gives us the recipe for her piece: “start by walking on eggs, then open the window wide to let in the wind carrying pollen and toxic substances.” MALEDIZIONE is the fifth section of the saga she calls FIRE OF EMOTIONS, a series of spoken essays, during which the performer releases a methodical yet poetic torrent of stories, references and questions. This time she talks about the Middle Ages and the “Now Age,” mentioning the controlling of women’s bodies and the importance of knowing what the stories tell us. She also talks about the plastic we all have inside us, about the mystical visionary poet and nun Hildegarde de Bingen, about Mary Poppins, and the choice to not have children. MALEDIZIONE looks for a way out of the individualizing imaginations which suffocate us: she creates a space of fluid empathy, and invites us to build queer ecologies, chosen genealogies and desirable futures.
Accessibility disclaimer :
→ Dialogs are in french with no subtitles
Avec le soutien des Lieux Culturels Pluridisciplinaires de la ville de Lille
Biography(s)
Pamina refers to the Alps and the Rhône to define where she comes from and where she is. Author and performer, her main way to express herself with though words, that she articulates in spoken essays : an oral form of creative non-fiction. She also grows potates and flowers, and fights against nuclear energy and patriarchal capitalism as a whole. She lives with a chronic illness, that provides her with a specific experience of pain and the unquestionned ableism of our western societies, where everything is organized around bodies that are “in shape”.
FIRE OF EMOTIONS is the name of a series of plays she’s been writing since 2014. It’s also the name of a german firework brand.
Credits
Research, writing, conception and cast : Pamina de Coulon
Decor : Pamina de Coulon, Alice Dussart
Light : Alice Dussart
Production, diffusion : Sylvia Courty
Production : BONNE AMBIANCE
Diffusion : Boom’Structur CDCN
Coproduction : Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne ; Centre Culturel André Malraux, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy et Association Le Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt
With the help of la ville de Lausanne, du Canton de Vaud
With the support of Pro Helvetia, de la Loterie Romande, de la Corodis
