The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to continue the Spoken Worlds program in collaboration with Emmanuelle Pireyre, writer and head of the writing workshop at HEAD – Genève. Spoken Worlds invites authors or artists who work with writing to present a reading of their text, followed by a discussion.
Back to the ’80s—multimedia just like in the old days. Equipped with a slide projector, dictaphones, and cassette recorders, author Sarah Elena Müller, translator Raphaëlle Lacord, and composer Benoît Moreau present a bilingual staged reading of the novel L’enfant hors champ / Bild ohne Mädchen, published in 2023 by Limmat and in 2025 by Zoé. Accompanied by the crackling of empty cassettes, a nameless child sets out to discover the origin of a mysterious angel she had seen on the videotapes of her neighbor Egon. Egon is a media theorist, a filmmaker, and a logical thinker. But something is off. Is the angel a species? An image? A childlike representation? An adult’s idea? And has it come to seek revenge or to protect? An immersive retro audio experience inspired by the novel’s soundscape and rhythm.
Photo: Sébastien Moritz
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Bâtiment H, Design Room
Free admission
Language: French and German
Avenue de Châtelaine, 7
Bâtiment H, Design Room
Free admission
Language: French and German
Sarah Elena Müller (1990) blends literature, music, research, and performance in her artistic practice, experimenting with a variety of narrative forms. Her debut novel, Bild ohne Mädchen (Limmat Verlag, 2023), has received numerous awards and was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize. Since 2016, Sarah Elena Müller has been a member of the spoken pop group Cruise Ship Misery, with whom she has released two albums. Since 2024, she has been exploring the connections between literary writing and self-narrative as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) research project “Autofiction & Consciousness.” She is currently working on her second novel and is developing a graphic novel with illustrator Luca Schenardi. Sarah Elena Müller is a member of the Spoken Word programming group for the Solothurn Literary Days and of the City of Zurich’s literary commission. She lives in Bern.
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