artaud/imprécations pour notre temps
José Lillo
Performances Poésies en mouvement #11 – Résistance
20 min
José Lillo (CH)
artaud/imprécations pour notre temps
performance
To resist? To what? To the intangible reality of words. To their power of astonishment. To the abduction of thought, committed without one being able to feel or to see the maneuver coming. To the imprisonment of brains in padded certainties. To the production of delirium. En masse. The breeding of the insane is the product of an industry of words dedicated to the capture of being, through which the brain becomes an ailment of synapsovore mental engineering where the depersonalization of life is infinitely replicated. The twentieth century has had, in this matter, its crucial witness: Antonin Artaud. Victorious over all confinements, he, the dispossessed of birth, the living of the livings, the escapee of all the deads, unharmed, until his last breath. Him, the one without words. And it is because all the words were heinous to him that he knew – like no other – the way to handle them and how to set them on fire so that the fire of language could, with all required ferocity, accomplish the definitive unblinding of his tortured being. This shock wave has reached us. Against the verb and through the verb. White magic against black magic. Wizard without a cult against the society of cult wizards, wherever they come from. Drawing by fragments in the totality of the work of Antonin Artaud, this performance assembles to assert 12 minutes and 53 seconds of fulgurations from a poet rescued from black magic and psychiatric confinements during the central collapse of the twentieth century. A warning for our time.
José Lillo is a director, actor and playwright for the theatre and lives in Geneva. Among the plays he staged, let us quote: Nuit de Walpurgis (Karl Kraus), Gorgias ou de la rhétorique (Platon), Le Grand Inquisiteur et Les Démons (Dostoïevski), Mémoire de fille (Annie Ernaux), Le Misanthrope (Molière), Le Petit-maître corrigé (Marivaux), Woyzeck (Büchner) and Penthésilée (Kleist). He is regularly invited to academic symposiums on political commitment and, very active in citizen mobilizations, he advocates for the preservation of social and cultural spaces in various collectives.