Flight of Fancy
HitStories
Diane Rivoire & Johana Blanc
JE/TU (NOUS)
From 7 to 17 October 2021
Performances on October 7 and 8 at 7pm
Collective writing workshop on October 9 from 2pm to 4pm
Image credits: Eden Levi Am

HitStories
Diane Rivoire & Johana Blanc
JE/TU (NOUS)

From 7 to 17 October 2021
Performances on October 7 and 8 at 7pm
Collective writing workshop on October 9 from 2pm to 4pm

This work is produced by Johana Blanc and Diane Rivoire who both put text, writing and reading at the centre of their artistic practice. For JE / TU (NOUS), they invite each other to move their words, whether it be in the field of performance for Diane or publishing for Johana. They thus weave a collaborative work in the form of transcriptions of telephone conversations and exchange of references and place their voices together in space for the first time.

Their performance and installation address, in a revisited conference, the mnemonic art of the theatre of memory. A dialogue that tends to be an exercise of horizontal admiration, in which appropriation and identification become blurred, and attempts to locate a plural I among a stream of intertwined words. An importance is given to the voice, to its modulations according to its address, to its fragility, its silences, its hesitations, its breath for love of words and feminist texts in particular.

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HitStories is

A desire to (re)generate non-hegemonic stories

The honouring of embodied practices, knowledge, experiences, beliefs, stories, myths, dreams, theories and fiction internalised individually or collectively

An emphasis on the instinctive, the irrational, the ambiguous, the unconscious, the unspoken, the unsure and the speculative

the celebration of new personal mythologies

A focus on the therapeutic and restorative dimension of sharing and transmitting these stories

An interest in the process that underlies in an artistic approach

A look at how these stories take shape, become concrete, perceptible, tangible, visible, at the crossroads of visual, textual, bodily, oral and sonic forms of expression

Careful attention to listening, to resonance, to echoes

A desire to share moments of physical encounters

A reflection on the archive of these shared moments, on the trace they leave, on the memories they create

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HitStories is a program of performative events and workshops taking place at HIT, a Geneva-based art space, between May 2021 and April 2022. Each episode of HitStories highlights, over a few days, the practice of an artist at HIT. Events (conversations, workshops, etc.) aimed at deepening the research carried out by the artists accompany their performative intervention.

HitStories is supported by Pro Helvetia, la Loterie Romande, la Ville de Genève, la fondation Leenaards, le Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, DCS, Genève and la Fondation du Jubilé de la Mobilière Suisse Société Coopérative.