Guest program: Launch of Revue Phylactère #3

The magazine Phylactère originated in the desire to transcribe performances through authentic, subjective and spontaneous visions. It brings together as many categories as there are possible readings of the performative act, such as transcriptions, scripts, reports, poems intended to be spoken, revealing all their plasticity in the light of singularly imperfect verbal and graphic forms. Phylactère is an intermingling of voices from different horizons and without hierarchy, coming to rub shoulders with the game of extending the physical and temporal space of the before and after performance into a published format, crystallizing their interpretation. 
This new opus - whose title is unpronounceable as it is made up of a series of non-alphabetic characters, with no phoneme correspondent - looks at multiple liminal forms of language and communication, such as underground, constructed, non-verbal, coded languages, ideologues, slang, shouts, insults, image-languages, secret writings, censored writings, and so on.

With contributions from Angela Goh, Camille Videcoq, Cécile Bouffard & Ruth Childs, Clarissa Baumann, Dora Garcia, Hippolyne, Juliana Vargas Zapata & Lara Dautun & Loraine Furter, Laurie Charles, Lu Lin, Pauline Lecerf, Publik Universal Frxnd, rita elhajj & ghalas charara, Suzanne Treister and Vir Andres Hera. 

On this occasion, we welcome Vir Andres Hera for a reading of his text Camera Serpent, part of an ongoing collection based on the Aztec goddess Coatlicue. It's about his hybrid body and cinematic framings that shape unstructured temporalities. These texts are read by Vir Andres and friends at public events, including “The Way We Perform Now”, recently organized by Cassandre Langlois at the Cité internationale des Arts.

Vir Andres Hera (b. 1990, Yauhquemehcan, Mexico) is a filmmaker and artist. The starting point for his work is the convergence of issues relating to immigration, exile, gender identity and multiple cultural affiliations, whose diversity he strives to restore. Combining personal narratives and pieces of history, his works bring to life words, voices and languages that he combines with fragmented visual montages and enigmatic images, reflecting the plurality of perspectives and realities. His multi-screen installations reflect a non-linear, fractured time. Recent exhibitions include Cacophony as collectivity, SBC Gallery, Montreal (2023); Soleil Triste, Mo.Co. Montpellier Contemporain, (2023); Exchange: London, Mimosa House, London (2023); and Ceremony, HKW, Berlin (2022). In 2024, he won the Prix jeune création internationale at the Lyon Biennale. An archive containing some of his writing has just been acquired by Mexico City's Museo Tamayo and will soon be published.