Poésie en Ville
Carla Demierre, Heike Fiedler, Cerise Rossier & Sarah Waelchli
The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to collaborate with Poésie en Ville, and welcome Carla Demierre, Heike Fiedler, Cerise Rossier & Sarah Waelchli for an evening of poetry and readings.
Programme de la soirée
6.30-7.15 pm Une lave brûlante de questions jamais formulées : reading and screening of « L’école de la forêt » (José Corti, 2023), with Carla Demierre.
Short extract: “One day, their perception of reality changed like the electric current returning after a long blackout. After the surprise, something happened. A burning lava of questions never formulated flowed over her but it wasn’t painful.”
Carla Demierre studied visual arts, creative writing and creative theory. Because of her background, she has always been interested in the intersections between disciplines. This open-minded approach to literary practice is reflected in the texts themselves, which mix poetry and narrative, formal experimentation and documentary aspects. In addition to books, Carla explores other forms of publication such as sound recordings, public readings and various printed formats. As a researcher, she works on the question of montage in literature and on the relationship between the recorded voice and the literary text. She is also interested in the creative process and, in particular, the production of narratives that surrounds it.
www.carlademierre.ch
7.30-8 pm in_time : sound poetry performance, with Heike Fiedler.
“In the interstice of fragments, I mix languages, sometimes in a loop, sometimes in visual poetry, to the rhythm of time that unrolls its red thread between words, between us.”
Heike Fiedler is a writer, poet, performer, sound and visual artist. For the past twenty years, she has been reading and performing at literature and poetry festivals around the world. A polyglot, she writes and publishes in French and German. Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary reviews, both in France and abroad. She also translates poetry and for several years contributed to the Cahiers Critiques de Poésie in Marseille. For some fifteen years, she co-programmed sound and performance poetry in Geneva, alongside publishers Vincent Barras and Alain Berset. Her work has received support from Pro Helvetia and La Ville and Le Canton of Geneva.
www.heikefiedler.ch
8.30-9.30 pm Alphabet DURCH: A choreographic code – the danced word, with Cerise Rossier and Sarah Waelchli.
These are words danced according to a code called the DURCH alphabet. “Durch” means “through” in German. Each letter represents a body position. The audience is given the code from A to Z. Cerise Rossier will be presenting an original duo performance with Sarah Waelchli.
Cerise Rossier is a performer and graphic designer. Since her studies at ECAL, she has used her body as a writing instrument and space as a blank page. A fan of the graffiti scene, she uses her body in this practice in a diverted and ephemeral way with her DURCH alphabet. Invented in 2020, this is a language in which each letter is a body position. The words are then danced in a martial, burlesque or Dadaist way, as the case may be. Working solo or with letter dancers, she ‘writes’ through movement. She is currently working on a longer piece of poetry, as her DURCH interpretation of the poem Les Vaudois by Jean Villard Gilles has won the 2023 Fondation des Arts et de La Culture de Nyon prize.
www.durchthecrisis.com
Sarah Waelchli developed a taste for movement at a very early age with Monique Décosterd. After taking contemporary dance classes and classical training in parallel with her gymnasium studies, she attended the Ballet Junior dance school in Geneva. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from the Folkwang Universität der Künste (Germany). Since then, Sarah has concentrated on her personal projects, which she has presented in Switzerland, France, Germany, England and Armenia. At the same time, she has worked for Cie Alias, Nadia Beugré and Melissa Cascarino in Geneva, Filippo Armati in Ticino, the Helmnot Theater in Dresden and collaborates with Collectif Antimatière in Fribourg, Jacqueline Pasanisi in Winterthur, Marzio Picchetti in Ticino and Axel Brandt in Berlin.
