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Public Event 01 October, 2022

We All Fall / Récit

gethan&myles, Collectif ildi ! eldi
Multidisciplinary, immersive performance, installation • Migration, porosity and integration

Public access

Yes

Tickets

Free (no booking required)

Venue

Ateliers Jeanne Barret
5 Bd. de Sévigné
13015 Marseille, France

Date & Time

01 October, 2022
12.30 – 16.30

Language

French

We All Fall / Récit : A participatory multi-disciplinary performance on the theme of immigration, porosity and integration, under the mediterranean sun and open to the local community and visitors alike, in which the public will be both spectators and co-creators. An intimate, immersive experience; the audience will be enveloped by the human reality of the stories of exile and will embody, for a moment, the heroes, the swimmers and the drowned, the survivors and the disappeared, the hundreds of thousands caught in their movement, suspended outside community and time, within a system that offers uncertainty, anxiety, violence and still, somehow, hope.

Credits: Presented by gethan&myles and ildi! eldi with the support of Ateliers Jeanne Barret, Comede, CIERES, Les Ateliers des Artistes en Exil, la Comédie de Valence, l’ADAMI and INSEAMM – Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille

Event Video – Teaser

Event Video – Full

Just over a year ago (October 2022) the artists gethan&myles created We All Fall / Récit in Marseille last October with Collectif ildi ! eldi, inspired by the Lotus Eaters episode of Ulysses. 

We All Fall / Récit was developed as participatory multi-disciplinary performance on the theme of immigration, porosity and integration, under the Mediterranean sun and open to the local community and visitors alike. The public were to be both spectators and co-creators. As an immersive experience, the audience was enveloped by the human reality of the stories of exile: the heroes, the swimmers and the drowned, the survivors and the disappeared, the hundreds of thousands caught in their movement, suspended outside community and time, within a system that offers uncertainty, anxiety, violence and still, somehow, hope.

The rationale for Marseille and the link to Ulysses, was the side of Bloom walking through Dublin. A motif of the Lotus Eaters episode is desire, attraction (tobacco, alcohol, food, religion) – a sense of attraction to what might enhance life. Marseille, a port city since 600 B.C., has offered refuge to wave upon wave of immigrants, lured by the thought of a better or different life. The Mediterranean metropolis is home to 100,000 immigrants from Algeria, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and beyond. Fifty years ago, from Alexandria to Beirut to Algeria’s Oran, multicultural cities were the norm on the Mediterranean. Today it could be argued that Marseille is the only one remaining. As such, it may represent a laboratory or a model for a new heterogeneous Europe.

We All Fall / Récit credits: Presented by gethan&myles and ildi! eldi with the support of Ateliers Jeanne Barret, Comede, CIERES, Les Ateliers des Artistes en Exil, la Comédie de Valence, l’ADAMI and INSEAMM – Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

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