Performance : Bibliothèque sonore des femmes

ABOUT THE WOMEN'S SOUND LIBRARY

Have you really read Simone de Beauvoir?

Do you know Paulette Nardal?

Does Catherine Colomb ring a bell?

Echoing Virginia Woolf's questions, we too wonder why women authors and thinkers are not more a part of our corpus, why they have been read so little?

The Bibliothèque sonore des femmes is a project initiated by Julie Gilbert, born of the idea that perhaps we haven't read enough about women writers because we don't know them. The installation features 15 dial telephones. Each telephone, when picked up, connects us with a writer from the past through a recorded monologue.

In this installation, the telephone is like a miniature theater stage, creating a singular, intimate and surprising link with a listener. The experience is never trivial, but leaves a trace, the sensation of having experienced something special.

At Poetik Bazar, you'll connect with Octavia E. Butler, Adelheid Duvanel, Alejandra Pizarnik, Olympe de Gouges, Audre Lorde, Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Marianne Van Hirtum, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Marina Tsvetaeva, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Fadwa Touqan, Monique Wittig, Isabelle Eberhardt.