HitStories
Fatima Wegmann
Follow the white rabbit

Follow the white rabbit is a new audiovisual performance and installation by artist Fatima Wegmann based on a principle of resonance between various personal narratives, experiences, dreams and cosmovisions. She established dialogues between voices, movements, symbols, objects and music that lead her on a path of healing and freedom to be in the world.

With this new production, she embarked on a more sculptural and embodied exploration of the issues that underlie her approach, namely to create spaces for action through compassionate listening to oneself and others.

Fatima Wegmann also ran an organic writing workshop, a healing writing method developed by Chicana author, poet, academic and feminist activist Gloria Anzaldúa. The workshop was followed by an embodiment exercise aimed at releasing our bodies, organs and emotions.

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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.