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Revue presentation - Lili, the rozell and the marimba

December 3, 2021

18:00 20:00

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A conversation between Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet and Estelle Lecaille (sika, Brussels), with Katia Kameli (artist), Sophie Kaplan (director of La Criée, Rennes, Lili, la rozell et le marimba), and Baptiste Brun, moderated by Lotte Arndt. Followed by a reading by Vir Andrès Hera (author, member of the editorial committee of Qalqalah قلقلة and contributor to the upcoming revue of Lili, la rozell et le marimba), and a performance by Nadjim Bigou-Fathi and Soto Labor.

The revues' form is polyphonic: orchestrated by editorial committees, crafted with graphic designers and printers, and developed through discussions with authors and artists, they are often defended against precarious financial situations. Each issue weaves a thread, builds a rhizomatic network, and forms temporary communities of thought that share the movement of plural reflections. With their fragmented, unfinished, fundamentally incomplete, and imperfect forms, they resist the constraint of a unifying and synthesizing thought.

Polyphonic by nature, journals appear in constellations: an article is rarely closed in on itself, often referring to another; an image calls for another. However, this ongoing thought regularly takes shape—a new issue can be understood as a milestone. A tangible object, complete in itself, even if it remains part of an ongoing process—the next revue already in progress.

As the third revue of sika and the fourth revue of Lili, la rozell et le marimba are being prepared, members of both editorial committees — connected through numerous ongoing editorial conversations — gather for a launch event. The evening will revolve around languages: their multiplicity and interweaving, their codification and classification, their subversive uses, and their overflows.

Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche

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Program6:00 PM – The revues sika and Lili, la rozell et le marimba

Conversation between:

  • Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet & Estelle Lecaille (sika, Brussels)
  • Katia Kameli (artist)
  • Sophie Kaplan (Director of La Criée, Rennes, Lili, la rozell et le marimba)
  • Baptiste Brun
    Moderated by: Lotte Arndt

7:00 PM – Vir Andres Hera & Minia Biabiany, Cartilages Archipels

Readings by Vir Andres Hera
A turbulent text reflecting the theoretical, political, and poetic inspirations of Vir Andres Hera and Minia Biabiany. The authors advocate for the recognition of Afro-descendant and Afro-diasporic figures in the construction of a contested Mexican national narrative (Qalqalah قلقلة).

Performance by Nadjim Bigou-Fathi & Soto Labor – FRSH (Searching for an Object in a Pocket)

Through gestures, bodies, saliva, and conversations ♪ Là à là. La à là la à ici. D’ici, ici à là, si, si si, la ♪ FRSH explores the conditions of discourse production and the power dynamics between scores, performers, authors, and audiences. This performance invites us to reshuffle the deck and facilitate the storytelling of histories with dissonant yet interconnected interpretations.

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