In the pitch, the inflections, the silences and hesitations of the women’s voices she hears in songs and films, on the radio, in artists’ works, novels and the essays she reads, Clara Schulmann hears ways of catching her own breath to finally speak out.

Using a series of women’s words she had assembled in a fragmentary manner in her book Zizanies, this time Clara Schulmann imagines a festive and polyphonic Vigil for the 2021 edition of the Nuit Blanche.

Bringing together individuals from a range of fields, artists, writers, singers, researchers, yoga practitioners, beatboxers, etc., people for whom voice is a key feature of their practice, this event will host a range of oral forms—songs, readings, speeches, conferences, stand up artists, etc.—in a festive atmosphere. During the evening, the guests will contribute to this ephemeral community of voices, intervening one after the other to create a long collective performance. Listening to the circumvolutions of speech, its inflections, hesitations, repetitions, silences, babblings, giving in to the mingling of shared accounts and feeling the power of orality, are so many experiences that everyone can assess themselves against before this stage for solo voices.

Programming
8pm: Victoire Le Bars
8:15pm: Anne Le Troter – Le climat de l’écriture
8:30pm: Rosanna Puyol – D’l’or
8:45pm: No Anger – Dans la gueule d’un souvenir
9pm: Gaëlle Obiégly – Éclats
9:15pm: Catherine Doste – Initiation au yoga facial
9:30pm: Sheila Atala – Being In – La polyphonie comme concept de collaboration
9:45pm: Lise Wajeman – Parler flou
10pm: Eden Tinto Collins – Poilue
10:15pm: Clotilde Le Bas – Une aiguille devenue arme
10:30pm: Prichia
10:45pm: Clara Schulmann – Et gare, à la revanche
11pm: Stéphanie Garzanti – Pas de voix sans oreilles
11:15pm: Cécile Paris – L’arrivée des voix variées, écoute et grattage
11:30pm : Clémence Allezard – Comme des brèches
11:45pm: Maïder Fortuné – Script pour Lee Lozano
00pm: Phoenix Atala – Algorithme الخوارزمی

The Vigil will resonate with the collaborative dimension of the exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly by the artist Jagna Ciuchta that welcomes works by amateur, emerging or confirmed artists, bound by real, aesthetic, intellectual or imaginary links of friendship, kinship and transmission.

Continuously from 7pm to 2am:
Exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly by Jagna Ciuchta, with Aïcha and Sheila Atala, Miriam Cahn, Patty Chang, Arnaud Cousin, Chloé Dugit-Gros, Allal El Karmoudi, Fadma El Karmoudi, Karima El Karmoudi, Nan Goldin, Nancy Holt, Marta Huba, Suzanne Husky, Graciela Iturbide, Janka Patocka, Samir Ramdani, Martha Salimbeni, Alina Szapocznikow, Dorothea Tanning, Eden Tinto Collins, T. Venkanna
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