ALTERNATIVES SORCIÈRES

Alternatives sorcières
Workshop (5 days behind closed doors, 2 days open to the public)
By Anna Colin and Latifa Laâbissi

Latifa Laâbissi and Anna Colin (curator and researcher) met several years ago to examine current “witches.”

In the last five years, the image of the witch has made a remarkable reappearance in the militant imagination – in particular in the feminist, queer and ecologist milieux, notably as a reaction to the current continuing climate of rampant repression of human rights, and in favor of more ethical and less individualistic practices, oriented toward social justice and wellbeing.

Seen from this perspective, the witch symbolizes and incarnates the more recent concept of “otherness,” supporting other ways of living, learning, becoming aware of the world and caring for it. And it is these questions and changing spaces which will be addressed in the workshop Alternatives sorcières, inviting us to speak, speculate and create, bringing together new friends and allies.

Over an intense period of seven days including a closed-door workshop and days open to the public, Latifa Laâbissi and Anna Colin will be creating movements, questions and encounters, learning and unlearning, nurturing and sharing the different possibilities which can be discovered through the prism of the image of the witch.

For five intensive days, a dozen people will be exploring together themes of otherness, marginalization, myth, rumor, collective working and alternative knowledge. Invitations will be issued to researchers who will present their work on subjects ranging from awareness of the animal world to witchcraft and imagination in Africa.

Then for two days, the entire group will share and publically activate the work collectively developed over the first five days. All of this will be collected and presented along with the documents, books and other important objects which inspired the original research.

Écran somnambule / Witch Noises / La Part du rite
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Performances of pieces by Latifa Laâbissi (after Alternatives Sorcières or the next day)