NO ANGER
Dans le jardin de nos voix
20 min
With whom do you share your fears and secrets, your silent passions? Why reveal a secret? How should it be revealed? With seemliness or emotion? Do you think the others can steal back what you have already given them? Once revealed, does a secret still belong to us? During this performance, No Anger will unravel a secret and scatter its fragments. The voices of the audience will come together in chorus to piece the mosaic back together.
ALEGRÍA GOBEIL
Des malades comme force de travail passive
20 min
Des malades comme force de travail passive is a logorrheic reading-performance that explores the ideological roots of hegemonic psychiatry. At the intersection of the rules of scholarly discourse and body art, Alegría Gobeil endeavours to reveal an unstable voice and a desiring body, even in the midst of revulsion.
PAUSE
JANNA ZHIRI
Le lait avant le bol
20 min
A character has been packing their boxes for three years. As a metaphorical performance, it explores the individual and social body. From that experience of haemorrhage and epilepsy, what remains with me most is the frightening dream, the chimerical, melancholic, political possibilities. When the wait is long in hospital wards, you start talking to the ceiling; all that remains is fiction.
ELIJAH DJAÉ
7 806 km et 4 min 22
5 min
This text explores the relationship between time and space through the situated experience of displacement. Based on disability studies, critical spatial studies and race theory, Elijah explores what it means to navigate a world with a violent architecture, where Black, migrant and disabled bodies move through restricted spaces and regulated time.
OLIVIER SCHETRIT, ANDREA BENVENUTO & BARBARA FOUGÈRE
Moi, Alexandre Pétin, photographe des premiers jeux silencieux de Paris
45 min
This signed slideshow embodies deaf archives by bringing to life the figure of Alexandre Pétin, a deaf photographer at the first Deaflympics in Paris in 1924. Through a narrative combining photographs and French Sign Language, it contributes to the transmission and promotion of deaf heritage.
FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLIC.
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Negotiations, Interdependence and Adjustments: Art and Accessibility”
with Quiplash & Carolyn Lazard
moderated by Wages For Wages Against
45 min
Through the intersection of artistic, activist and editorial perspectives, this occasion for exchange opens up a space for collective reflection on accessibility as a practice of care, as a tool for the redistribution of knowledge, and as an act both aesthetic and political. It invites artists, art workers, institutions and audiences to rethink the conditions of production, circulation and reception of contemporary art, based on the lived experiences and struggle of disabled people. As part of the launch of the book Be There When and Where: Art and anti ableism , published by Wages For Wages Against, with contributions from Michaëla Danjé, Quiplash, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur & Constantina Zavitsanos, Lari Medawar & Ostensible, and Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem. Since 2017, Wages For Wages Against has been advocating for fair pay for artists in Switzerland and is committed to social and economic justice in the art world.
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LARI MEDAWAR
Lire sans bouche
5 min
At the Palais of T — Reading without a mouth — the inability — the pride — the mourning – On one’s own grave — Epitaph — Of a burnt-out ambition — L. knows the cracks – the secret passages of the palace — on a bed of stone — Since E. offers the bracelet — Wanting to tell the story – The flat – The breathing – The cat and the dog — The gentle – Gentle M—tears licked away— T’s palace domesticated – dozing off – as if at home – taking the medicine — getting through it.
EULALIE COMBES CHEVALIER·E
Le voir pour le croire
15 min
This is a performance reading in which I am visible, along with my disability, invisible, and my text comes from a file in which I have been sharing my life story for the past two years. It’s just the microphone, my voice, and my heart, which I’ve kept open in an attempt to understand if and how people see me… and also, how to make a lasting impression, maybe…
CAROLINE MAUXION
Malformes
20 min
The video Malformes (2025) opens with a choreography of hands connected by a sculpture, an intermediary object between bodies. Archival medical photographs appear intermittently whilst voices narrate a story that weaves together theoretical and personal reflections on a medicalised body and then on a body that is both desired and desiring. This artwork will be an opportunity for the artist to develop a new relationship with the image and narrative in the form of a performed iteration.
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PANTEHA ABARESHI
Perscribed Regimen
[under the pre-operative light]
[how to bathe your lover]
1H30
Panteha Abareshi explicitly explores “the collision of violence and tenderness in caregiving to the sick body.” These texts, translated and circulated for the first time in France, explore the links between care, desire and pain in the relationships on the blurred boundaries between caregivers and those being cared for. In a language saturated with romantic obsession, the suffering body becomes an erotic, vulnerable and irrevocably political territory.
FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLIC.
SABRINA RÖTHLISBERGER BELKHACEM & GOLCE KUMMER
20 min
Unbreakable Core (2026), a compilation of poems, marks the starting point for a play of the same name, currently in development. What we are presenting here is a work-in-progress, prior to the final version featuring eight performers. The poems I have written and which I perform, whispered, chanted, sang or shouted become gestures in their entirety. The live saxophone music by Golce Kummer, inspired by L’Elisir d’amore, engages in a dialogue with the body and the voice.
EDWIN RAMIREZ
Run Daddy Run
45 min
Edwin Ramirez embarks on a humorous and moving search for father figures. In a stand-up comedy odyssey, the queer, disabled artist introduces six daddies—regardless of gender—who turned Edwin into the person they are today. With sharp wit and fragile candor, they pose questions of identity and belonging beyond normative body images and visions for one’s life.
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TAMSIN MALBRAND
Anti²corps
30 min
In this performance, I examine chronic illness, the spaces in our lives that it distorts, creates and barricades. I re-enact the ritual of the medical appointment, that place where patients and illnesses are asked to express themselves clearly. The cold, hyper-codified clinical setting and the ableist system in which it is embedded push us to the edge, to run off the road, to become as unpredictable and unbearable as our illnesses and our exhausted flesh.
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SALEEM HUE PENNY
US Dept. of Justice Erasure for (law) Enforcement (officers)
30 min
Black, disabled hybrid poet Saleem Hue Penny will disassemble the ableist “Serve & Protect” facade of policing in a live audio/visual experience. Pairing bold collage, precarious drum breaks, meticulous audio samples, and remixed sign language, we will engage in an embodied “sound scanning praxis”. Despite/Within the disorienting “wild spaces” of police violations, freedom-seeking and solidarity endure.
NOA MICAELA FIELDS
“E”
20 min
A trans poet with hearing aids conducts a ritual embracing and honoring the glitch of her mishearing as a portal for personal transformation. Like an ethereal game of telephone, E by Noa Micaela Fields twists and turns in a chain of echoes, gossiping with the ghost of Louis Zukofsky’s “A” and remixing the queer mouthfeel of found language into her own captionless life, including misadventures like losing her hearing aids at the rave. Can enjambment enable embodiment as escape art?
PAUSE
TITO BONE (QUIPLASH)
An Evening with Tito Bone
1H
An Evening with Tito Bone features your average blind non-binary bisexual drag king. They’re talented, funny, charismatic, sexy, caring, kind, handsome and humble, blending glitter-beard glam, epic singing, dad-dancing, audio description, and storytelling into an hour of queer disabled joy.
“Tito’s use of musical talent and comic timing to slice through the ableist society we live in is glorious!”
PARTY TIME !
*The announced durations of the performances and readings are approximate.