Jérôme Bel
Un spectacle en moins
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Conception, Jérôme Bel
Co-produced by R.B. Jérôme Bel, La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // In association with La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // The company receives support from DRAC - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d’Ile-de-France - Ministère de la culture et de la communication, l'Institut Français - Ministère des Affaires Etrangères - for its overseas tours and ONDA - Office National de Diffusion Artistique for its tours in France
Partnership with France Culture
In conjunction with the Portrait dedicated to him in this year’s edition of the Festival d’Automne à Paris, Jérôme Bel’s next production carries the title of Un spectacle en moins, because there just might be one too many already...
Jérôme Bel’s titles entertain a unique relationship with the pieces they refer to. They are both literal and open to interpretation. Reading them in chronological order, they also form a sort of sentence, in which they converse, and comment on each other. They lead to a constant reexamination of what constitutes Jérôme Bel’s principal subject matter: the show. Each title forms a logical coupling with what comes before it or after it: Name given by the author / Jérôme Bel; Le dernier spectacle / The show must go on ; Disabled Theater / Gala. If Gala put theatre in the hands of those who are deprived of it, its spectacular form, in turn, was a call for an assessment of the state of play. It was a way of re-stating the pre-requisites of a show in order to extract its least visible elements from it - its grey areas and the unexpected. This time around, it is not Le dernier spectacle - a radical statement - but Un spectacle en moins. We can interpret this title as a show made with limited means, but also as a way of reducing or diminishing the effects of power inherent in the apparatus of theatre. In connection with the creation of this new work, three monthly rendez-vous will be taking place at La Commune Aubervilliers. These critique workshops will enable Jérôme Bel to put his ideas to the test before a live audience.
In the same place
Carte Blanche Dream City
The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists.
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.
Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.