Le Tiret d'Alice (Habiter l'intervalle)
Lecture-performance
Open End (exhibition), Geneva, November 2016
Chapelle du cimetière des Rois, Geneva, September 2017
Festival La Fureur de Lire, Geneva, November 2023
Maison Rousseau & Littérature, Geneva, June 2024
Histoires et mémoires du cimetière des Rois, Palais Eynard, Geneva, October 2024
This lecture-performance introduces an ongoing investigation about the grave of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz (1901-1998), located at cimetière des Rois.
It adresses the singular qualities of a discreet and elegant funerary monument, in relation to the life and work of the writer: from the piece of rock removed from the Jura of her origins and installed in this Geneva cemetery, to the author’s name she chose, not forgetting the famous hyphen separating the dates of birth and death –that she evoked herself in several writings.
Alternating narration, readings and sound extracts, this piece dialogues with the thought of an author particularly attentive to the social and political issues of her time, but who deliberately chose to shift the focus from the dominant historical figures and events, rather paying attention to the narratives and aspirations of the Voiceless.
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