- Fractured
- Mistrusting
- Interdisciplinary
About
What's worth the head that crashes under a light that never turns off? is an interdisciplinary piece that features the paradoxes of self-preservation. She explores the "dirty care" that drives us to survive by becoming the experts of others, at the cost of obsessive and corrosive vigilance. The text, delusional and polyphonic, brings out troubled figures of power-on – psychiatrists, owners, doctors – through fragments that draw a saturated space of distrust. Characters appear to have unbearable humour: victims of revenge, compulsive patients, intruders in a bourgeois supper, theoreticians. The play offers a fragmented crossing where the language delineates and the scene becomes a field of urgency, negotiation and troubled joy. Inheriting from art performance methodologies, what the head is worth is a porous incarnation.
Credits
Text, scenography, staging — Alegría Gobeil Interpreter — Charles Voyer Dramaturgic Council — JJ Houle Lighting design — Flavia Lemée
Biographies
Alegría Gobeil develops a practice rooted in a non-pathological approach of gestures perceived as self-destructors or invivable, in dialogue with critical perspectives of psychiatrization. His work spans performance, writing and exhibition, having been presented in various contexts in Quebec, Canada, Europe and the United States. His friendship with the stage directors and performers Charles Voyer and JJ Houle, the stage designer Micha Morasse, the lighting designer Flavie Lemée and technical director Guillaume Lafontaine-Moisan gradually led her to recognize the theatrical possibilities of her work. Inspired by the interdisciplinary practices of each of the members of this project, we explore together the porous zones between visual and living arts, developing forms where stage writing hybridizes to the legacy of performance.