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Cynthia Montier and Abdul-Hadi Yasuev, Karma - shattered reality, 2021
A working step conceived in conversation with magistrates and clerks of the administrative and judicial orders as well as a lawyer practicing in Toulouse.
Performance cancelled due to co-author Abdul-Hadi Yasuev's inability to attend due to administrative detention.
The festival supports the co-author Abdul-Hadi Yasuev and the work karma : letter of support.
Cynthia Montier is interested in the place of spirituality in vernacular and creative practices in relation to social engagement. Her new project, Karma, examines the legal sphere. Karma (from Karman in Sanskrit) means 'act' and contrasts the force of a spell with that of a power of action. Between spell and judgement, act and discourse, Karma is an artistic and legal work in the form of collaborative works made from transitional objects that carry narratives. Karma thus constitutes a fund or a collection in the making, where each work-multiple functions as an amulet, becoming a pledge of a narrative and its transmission.
This conference-performance will be an opportunity to present, on the one hand, a stage of work on the act of judging, conceived in conversation with magistrates and clerks of the administrative and judicial orders as well as a lawyer practising in Toulouse and, on the other hand, the performance Shattered reality, which is the result of the Karma work-multiple collection.
Shattered reality [разрушенная реальность — réalité éclatée], created by Cynthia Montier and Adbul-Hadi Yasuev, corresponds to the activation of a transitional object in the form of a performance protocol around the notion of isolation, virtuality, identity and authorship in contexts related to migratory flows. Telephones and headphones are distributed to the audience. The performance unfolds via a What'sApp conversation, inviting the audience to witness it. By telephone and face to face with the audience, the two co-authors give a two-voice account of a lived and displaced experience. Between a testimony of memory and an initiatory gesture, the audience is invited to a series of altered self-portraits.
In partnership with the Palais de Justice de Toulouse as part of La Nuit du Droit.
Acknowledgements: Gilbert Cousteaux.