Readings: L'agitation du monde

Reading

Saturday 19 September
18:30 - 19:30

Price: Gratuit - Gratis - Free Language: French Location: Garden of Maison des Arts

Quatre lectures de 12 minutes

with

Asma Soulista, Alexandre Lecoultre, Roxana Hashemi & Gabriel René Franjou

Presentations

What is shaking the world today? Between social divisions, ecological crises, struggles for justice, the development of artificial intelligence, and the search for meaning, literature and poetry remain precious spaces for naming the unspeakable, unfolding contradictions, and imagining possible futures. This reading event, entitled "Le tremblement du monde" brings together four authors whose intimate yet universal texts explore the tensions and hopes that run through our societies.

This event, entitled "Le tremblement du monde" brings together four authors whose intimate yet universal texts explore the tensions and hopes that run through our societies.

Roxana Hashemi, in her constrictions, her obviousness and her strangeness, speaks of nature and humanity, the ordinary, its linings, its folds, its details, in lines which, as the pages turn (her words, her white spaces, her parts), gain amplitude, rise, ascend and transfigure her subjects.

Text : Marie Chartres

On ne peut pas se réfugier

à l'intérieur des plis

d'un feu

Roxana Hashemi, L'anniversaire de toutes les choses, Éditions NOUS

**About 1 kilo de plumes, 1 kilo de plomb, of Gabriel René Franjou, Editions LansKine**

Preoccupied by the futures generated from the data he emits, a narrator addresses the federal agent assigned to monitor him. Indexed memories populated by angels and cyborgs, traces and conspiracies of a forgotten empire, late-night alchemy videos, anonymous and oceanic voices from the platforms—the content of a multitude of open tabs, rich in information, composes a "scroll of consciousness" where poetry and technology are two interfaces of the same magic: language. As the screen mirrors consciousness and absorbs the dream, the desire to go and touch grass reappears.

Asma Soulista writes about the world through committed, sensitive, and multilingual texts that she sings and recites as poetic journeys and experiments. A feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist activist, she approaches art as a weapon of civic expression and individual and collective awareness.

Bleue comme une orange
elle tourne et tourne

impassible face à nos cicatrices
qui divisent l’espace et structurent nos futurs

en sillonnant les routes
d’horizons à gravir

de chutes vertigineuses
de rivières asséchées

de frontières meurtrières

Asma Soulista, Bris de vers, maelstrÖm reEvolution

About Là où chante l’orage, of Alexandre Lecoultre, éditions art&fiction

Ordinary people, trapped in the daily grind, overwhelmed by the world's ceaseless turmoil. At the heart of these lives, seemingly silenced, voices nevertheless find their way through. They recount the power of dreams, the brutality of the working world, grief, and voices on the phone that belong to no one. A voice is liberated, powerful and vulnerable at once.

Throughout the text, through echoes and silences, something profound is revealed, partially unraveled, and partially mended—a tapestry of images through which Alexandre Lecoultre simultaneously intuits, unveils, and warms our solitude.

Our speakers

Alexandre Lecoultre

Alexandre Lecoultre is a writer of prose and poetry. He was born in 1987 in French-speaking Switzerland and lives in Bern. In 2021, he received the Swiss Literature Prize for his novel *Peter und so weiter* (L’Âge d’Homme, 2020; reissued by La Veilleuse in 2023). He has staged his texts as part of musical performances and collaborated with the artist Claire Nicole on the artist’s books *Pépins de pomme* (Le Cadratin, 2020) and *Geste* (Couleurs d’encre, 2023). He has also translated poetry from Spanish into French. His work has appeared in various journals in Switzerland and France. He leads writing workshops with middle school classes as part of the Roman d’école project.

Asma Soulista

Singer, slam poet, author, songwriter, and musician; Asma Soulista is a raised fist holding a pen, the trembling voice of the invisible, the echo of the scars left by the fragmentation of our humanity. This activist artist and socio-cultural worker strives to tear down the walls that separate us and shatter the ceilings of verse. She has released, notably, six singles (including one duet with HK) and two music videos, as well as the bookleg *Bris de vers* published by maelstrÖm reEvolution and the anthology *D’ailleurs je suis ici*, which she published through Le chant des rues, an imprint founded by the CEC, which she coordinates

Roxana Hashemi

Roxana Hashemi lives and works in Marseille. She co-edits the journal *Muscle* with Laura Vazquez, and writes and translates from English and German. Her writings have appeared in various journals (AOC, Nioques, Estuaire, etc.). Her first book, *L’anniversaire de toutes les choses*, was published in 2024 by NOUS.

Gabriel RENE FRANJOU lecture cred Romain Guede

Gabriel René Franjou

Gabriel René Franjou (1996) is an artist, author, translator, and cultural worker based in Brussels. He is interested in emotion within organic and digital networks, collects and manipulates information as if it were a malleable material, and uses hyperlinks as a critical and creative tool. His fiction and poetry have been published in journals such as Sabir, If, and AOC; he has read and performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Montévidéo in Marseille, and at La Bellone in Brussels; and he has participated in exhibitions at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing and during transmediale in Berlin. His first book of poetry is scheduled for release in the fall of 2026 by Éditions Lanskine. Gabriel is also a member of the transdisciplinary group ɴon-ᴀ and the writers’ collective petites histoires.