Saturday 19 October
To mark the opening of the festival, we're opening up the mechanical garden at l'Embobineuse, with a little conviviality and readings!

A reading of several fiction-poems by Chams Barkaoui

These milky stories are shaped by fatigue but also by determination. The characters escape from a world that violates them while at the same time becoming one with it, and they ask themselves, how can they bury themselves? How do they huddle in the gaps? How do they find their peers on the run and in their hiding places? And finally, how do we become the earth and the earth becomes us, in its deleterious states, its ways of fighting, its limited resources and its eternal pollution?

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The fiction-poems read are taken from ‘Mourir dans la terre’, a micro/self-published collection by Chams Barkaoui in 2024.

Chams Barkaoui is a writer and transmedia artist. Informed by queer and decolonial ecologies, he sees his work as a tool for shaping and nurturing inter-species and inter-dimensional relationships. He is the bearer of a counter-humanity that seeks total liberation, using narrative processes to make animal, vegetable, mineral, spiritual and technological categories porous. Committed to collective practices, he regularly works with other authors, researchers and artists. At the same time, his writing takes the form of cartographies, essays (‘Manifester la magie’, self-published, 2020) and fictions published in magazines and collections, or performed in public in various art venues.

Photo © Mourir dans la terre by Chams Barkaoui, 2024.

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