Démocratie de Pierres

For presenting my ROC·HES researches, I chose to take an audience on an investigation of the stone democracy. With the help of a map outlining the founding principles of this mysterious democracy, and accompanied by the collectif trouble, spectators are invited to decide the future of the 25 stones that rightfully belong to them...

The play invites spectators to consider their relationship with stone from different angles: constructive, resource, writing medium, lichen substrate, speculative value, carrier of memory... Blending fiction and expert words, I offer audiences a critical path of thought, inviting them to generate new imaginaries, to weave surprising connections between sediments and serve as fertile ground for utopias.

Create a compendium of possibilities, a collection of imaginaries, a portfolio of utopias. Wonder whether they should be combined. Try to draw up a manual of the imaginary, a path that would enable us to imagine. Move from one space to another, changing your point of view. Become stone, become moss, become human. Move quickly, slowly, experiment different relationships to spaces in order to see, to be capable, to be able to see the differences.

Mapping is multi-temporal, originating in the past, present and future. It allows us to imagine a development of the spaces we know, but also to deepen our knowledge of what lies beneath our feet...