Performance
10 Minutes
2025
Muß es sein ?
Through this classic existential question, I seek to demonstrate the possibility of the return of what has been excluded from contemporary life and secular thought.
We should imagine la discipline without discipline, a freedom beyond freedom, a modernity prior to modernity.In this performance, the performers settle in a library—a sacred place of knowledge—and use a classic divination tool, the Ouija board (or “spirit of the pen”), to interrogate a trilingual dictionary. The questions posed arise from current social issues and classical reflections on art.
They then invoke a spirit: Monsieur Tsuaf, the great ghost of the library, to whom each performer has contractually committed to complete the ritual.
When the answers no longer rest on established knowledge or dominant disciplines, is it spectral poetry? Or the manifestation of an unknown law, situated beyond the human?
Before modernization, perhaps what comes after already existed.
This is my response to Bruno Latour.
Es muss sein!
