‘Structural or situational, violence threatens us in the present of our lives, growing a little more every day. A violence that prevents us, a violence that excludes us, to the point of destroying the humanity that is in every being’ Bouba Landrille Tchouda
A participatory artistic project
Over the next three years, the Malka company will be exploring the issue of violence from a variety of unique angles. Working with Belgian playwright Olivier Hespel and Grenoble-based video artist Mohamed Athamna, choreographer Bouba Landrille Tchouda wants to explore the mechanisms that can gradually lead us towards a form of marginality, excluding us and setting us apart from society. With this new artistic project, we will be embarking on an experimental creative process in which situations of violence or confrontation with others (in their differences) can feed into the production of a poetic language. Aimed primarily at an amateur audience of pre-teens, teenagers and young adults, whether at school or not, participants will be invited to mobilise their ‘poetic’ body, the body that speaks, the body that expresses itself without any act of violence. Our aim is to stimulate a certain outlook, a critical and constructive attitude, mobilise the creativity of the participants and contribute to their personal development. The project will be punctuated by writing and choreography workshops, interspersed with a video-based approach. The writing workshops will be conceived as food for movement, while the video will act as a kind of alter-ego (mirror), an element integrated into this process of reflection and creation. We will approach this mechanism and path towards violence in three parts, each with the aim of creating and presenting a spectacular multi-disciplinary form.
1 | Des corps dans la ville
2 | Les gens d’à côté
3 | Autres ailleurs
We will start from a matrix which, depending on the singularities of the amateur participants, will open up to productions and performances that reflect the diversity of each person’s experiences. In order to bring this project to fruition, a group of no more than twenty people will be formed on a voluntary basis, in order to aim for group cohesion.
