Ibrahim Mahama, Emilie Notéris, Gaëtan Rusquet: One day, the world will heal

While Ukiyo-e is in the spotlight at the Lyon Biennial, Kintsugi presides over the MAGASIN des Horizons (Grenoble, France). A sign of the times, non-binary thinking inspires our events programming and breathes a new life into these austere walls. Kintsugi, in Japan, is the art of repairing broken pottery. It is both a practice and a philosophy that takes into account the past life of an object, its history, its accidents, and allows one to repair it using powdered gold. Breakage does not mean the end or discarding of the object, but a renewal, the beginning of another cycle and continued utilization. Showing clear symbolic and visual affinity with Ibrahim Mahama and Gaëtan Rusquet’s propositions, Émilie Notéris’s restorative writing similarly invokes Kintsugi as it forges connections between fiction and theory in a salubrious confusion of genres!

Émilie Notéris, “Writing between the two shores”
Foiling a genre of our imagination: this is restorative fiction in a nutshell. Imagination and fiction do not constitute parallel universes, but are the reality through which order, the norm, or, as Émilie Notéris suggests, disorder are reconstituted and legitimized. To your keyboards!

Ibrahim Mahama, Labored forms, 2017
Materials: burlap sacks used in global trade. Action: sew in order to mend. Principle: caring together. Ibrahim Mahama and over 30 fellow performers busy themselves with mending these pieces of fabric as if performing an act of reparation, stitching together these scarified skins as if in a surgical intervention. A collective response aimed at healing: reaping what globalized individualism and capitalism have scattered.
Partnership: ÉSAD •Grenoble •Valence, ESAAA, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Gaëtan Rusquet, Meanwhile
Rumbling can be heard. The earth trembles. The threat of annihilation can be felt. Nicknamed, the “earth eater” by the Native Americans, the Western man keeps digging, shoveling, reshaping the Earth in order to build his cities and monuments. Can we join our bodies to stop the meltdown?
Performance: Tiago Anthunes, Claire Malchrowicz, Gaëtan Rusquet; sound: Yann Leguay.

Émilie Notéris, Restorative fiction
Between literary fictions and movies of the mauvais genre, Émilie Notéris develops a novel usage of the notions of healing and repair. Starting with horror, fantasy, and sci-fi films, the author proposes a new type of queer fiction, that is to say, decidedly positive and prospective.

Related events

Ibrahim Mahama, Labored forms
October 14–15, performance 
Saturday: at place Saint-André, Grenoble
Sunday: at MAGASIN des horizons, Grenoble

Émilie Notéris, “Writing between the two shores”
October 14, 9am–1pm, writing workshop 

Gaëtan Rusquet, Meanwhile
October 15, 3–7pm, performance 

Émilie Notéris, Restorative fiction
October 15, 4–5pm, performed lecture