Parallèle 15

Dance, performance, visual arts

January 31—February 8, 2025

Festival of international emerging artistic practices

Marseille and Aix-en-Provence

Mégane Brauer with Chuglu, Simon Pastoors and Pauline L. Boulba
Journée thématique Politiser l'enfance

2025

February 2 at 11:00
[mac] Musée d'art contemporain de la Ville de Marseille

Projection, Workshop, Reading, Brunch

Free entrance

In partnership with [mac]

As part of Mégane Brauer's solo exhibition Les rois du monde, Festival Parallèle is organizing a day dedicated to the theme "Politicizing Childhood" in partnership with the [mac]. The program includes a brunch, an art critique workshop with the Chuglu collective, a reading of Coucou, bisous. by Simon Pastoors, video screenings by choreographer and researcher Pauline L. Boulba, a goûter, and other surprises for both children and adults.

The theme of this day was inspired by the collective work Politiser l’enfance, directed by Vincent Romagny (Burn-Août editions, 2023), to which Mégane Brauer contributed with an original text. The title of this work is taken from the eponymous lecture by Tal Piterbraut-Merx, given on April 28, 2021, at ENSBA in Lyon.

À table! – Souhila Larabi
Brunch from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Snack from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Performance artist and knife-wielding visual artist, Souhila Larabi creates vibrant and sensitive culinary actions. Taking into account the context in which her actions take place, she embraces a local approach and prioritizes human connections. She explores individuals' stories to craft a spatial, social, cultural, and culinary portrait. These culinary gatherings offer a collective experience of a specific space through taste.

Critic’ Workshop – Chuglu
From 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The Chuglu collective presents critic’, a creative expression workshop at the museum.
"Because you are brilliant, we entrust you with the role of art critic to celebrate the work, critique it, or just scribble something for fun. And then discuss it? Let’s fill this space with our words in a moment of intellectual illumination! Art depends on what is said about it. Grab your markers!"
Audience: Ages 6 and up

Mille Shake ~ Conversation #1 – Pauline L. Boulba and Sandra Calderan
Screenings at 11:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM, and 4:30 PM
Mille Shake by Pauline L. Boulba is a dual project, both performative and literary, exploring incest, revenge, Corsican stories, and queer/trans struggles. The video creates a space for discussion around this work in progress, featuring excerpts from rehearsals with commentary and dialogue with Sandra Calderan, artist and collaborator on the piece.
Duration: 40 minutes
Audience: Ages 15 and up
Warning: This video work addresses sensitive topics such as incest, which may be disturbing to some viewers.

Coucou, bisous – Simon Pastoors
Readings at 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 4:00 PM
In this reading, Simon Pastoors unfolds personal archives—photographic, musical, and sensory. Playing with anachronistic writing and imprecise temporalities, he examines how dreams and iconographies tied to the popular and rural culture of his childhood shape bodies. Coucou, bisous was written during the FREED FROM DESIRE residency, founded by Mégane Brauer, Léa Laforest, and Anne-Claire Jullien.
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: All ages

Biography

Drawing from her own experiences and those of her close circle, Mégane Brauer's work maintains a close connection to the social violence of a world fractured by capitalism. Precarity and poetry, survival and radiance, essentials and necessity... Her work is imbued with disarming sincerity. It begins with texts she writes, capturing the realities of class domination and the daily strategies of the poor—navigating discount stores, administrative forms, underpaid work, and losing lottery tickets.

Snapshots of forbidden lives, her works simmer with energy and unflinchingly celebrate the beauty of fake glitter, the dreams of telenovelas, and creative crafts as flashy as diamond painting. Mégane Brauer manipulates the materials around her, resulting in a profoundly situated and political body of work that powerfully reflects the instability of an absurd present.

Credits

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© Mégane Brauer