Pamina de Coulon
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- Live performance
- 1h10
- maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- Pass Latitudes
FIRE OF EMOTIONS: Niagara 3000
NIAGARA 3000 is method, a post-ironic and pro-candles “spoken essay,” a fast-paced torrential monologue in which Pamina de Coulon gives us both hopes and doubts while slyly inserting a few well-chosen truths into the flow.
In this spoken essay Pamina de Coulon has chosen the topic of water. She visited Niagara Falls, one of the wonders of the world, and a giant techno-natural structure and made it the source of a rollicking driving long-form monologue, in which we attempt to follow the whirlpools of her thinking. She includes: tides to deltas, rivers to glaciers, replenishment, dams, turbines – and especially all the violence linked to the production of energy and resources appropriation. She even considers the hydraulic power of tears. NIAGARA 3000 interweaves scientific culture and pop culture, political texts, absurd theories and autobiographical impulses. The result is sad, funny, fluid, feisty: Pamina de Coulon’s writing opens new doors onto the world, mixing a powerful cocktail of laughter and gravity.
Accessibility infos :
- Performance in French without surtitles
Biography(s)
Pamina refers to the Alps and the Rhône to define where she comes from and where she is now.
As a writer and performer, her main form of expression is speech, which she articulates in the spoken essay: an oral form of creative non-fiction.
She also grows flowers and potatoes and campaigns against nuclear power and patriarchal capitalism in general.
She lives with a chronic illness that gives her a specific experience of both pain and the unquestioned validism of our Western societies, the fact that everything is organised around ‘fit’ bodies.
Credits
Research, writing, design and performance: Pamina de Coulon
Set design: Pamina de Coulon and Alise Dussart
Lighting: Alice Dussart
Production and Distribution: Sylvia Courty / Boom’Structur
Production: BONNE AMBIANCE
Coproduction: Le Magasin des Horizons, Grenoble and ARSENIC – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
