SPLACH - Meeting about the work of Monique Wittig
Rencontre
Event organised as part of the lecture series SPLACH, Séminaire Pour l’Art et les CHoses imprimées, in partnership with the École des beaux-arts de Sète and the Librairie L’Échappée Belle.
As part of the #Wittig2023 year, Les Guérillères is coming to the Crac.
Free entrance, subject to availability.
In the #MeToo era, (re)reading Les Guérillères, a novel published in 1969, becomes strangely contemporary.
What is one to make of this odd story that reports, in an epic style amid disorder, the war conducted by them to bring about a new definition of what it means to be human, beyond categories of sex?
Writer Monique Wittig (1935-2003), recipient of the 1964 Prix Médicis for her first novel The Opoponax, was a feminist and lesbian theorist whose analyses of The Straight Mind were linked with activism (in 1970 she took part in the placing of a sheaf at the Arc de Triomphe in tribute to a woman “more unknown than the unknown soldier: his wife”) and with a revolutionary literary writing practice. Echoing Wittig, they say that EVERY GESTURE IS AN OVERTHROW. We have been warned.
- 18h30 : Monique Wittig, an exemplary body of work : a dialogue between Chloé Jacquesson and Yannick Chevalier.
- 19h00 : Group reading of Les Guérillères led by Suzette Robichon, president of the association Les Ami.es de Monique Wittig:
bring your books (or we will lend you one)
Chloé Jacquesson is the author of Quelque part où “le sexe n’existe pas”. Pratiques fictionnelles, théoriques et questions de genre chez Nathalie Sarraute et Monique Wittig.
Yannick Chevalier is a lecturer at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and co-editor of the collective book Lire Monique Wittig aujourd’hui.
Suzette Robichon, editor, lesbian activist, conveyor, is co-president of the association Les Ami.es de Monique Wittig.
Date: Friday 8 December 2023
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Location:
26, quai Aspirant Herber
34200 Sète (Hérault)
Crac Occitanie, Centre régional d'art contemporain
Free event
Audience: Tout public
