Frsh (recherche d'objet dans une poche) is a critical study of the production and performance methods of discourse: from speech to song, from gesture to dance, from text to score. Far beyond any distinction between research and performance, Beursschouwburg's associated artists soto labor and nadjim bigou-fathi, focus their gaze on the power dynamics that determine how histories are produced and handed down. In doing so, they ask the audience to help think – with their ears and/or mouths – about how we can reshuffle the cards. 

"Groping, bodies, saliva and conversations from ♪ Là à là. La à là la à ici. D’ici, ici à là, si, si si, la ♪ are Frsh methods to question the way discourse is manufactured and the relationship of subordination between scores, performers, authors and audiences."

60 minutes

in French

nadjim bigou-fathi (1990, FR) is a designer, visual artist and performer. He is concerned with the creation of limits – from walls to words – and the normative, territorial or authoritarian dynamics behind them. Through curatorial, sculptural or performative projects, he investigates waiting and expecting situations, questioning the power relations between participants.

soto labor (1993, FR) is a poet, visual artist and performer. Strongly influenced by hip-hop as a means of empowerment, they explore different forms of telling and performing, exploring the conditions that make this (im)possible for some. Their short stories, fables, poems and rap lyrics thereby become tools for political critique.

cast: nadjim bigou-fathi et soto labor

credits & thanks to: ♪♪ ABEL Shirine,  ABSENT (l'), AHENKONA Lisa, ANDRES HERA Vir,  ARNDT Lotte, ARTIGE Véronique, ASSIER Mathilde, ATSHAN Hussein, AUKŠTAITYTE Ula, B. Jonathan, BAGOT Patricia, BELOUALI-DEJEAN Mathilde, BEMBEKOFF Marc, BIGOU-FATHI Nadjim, BORREMANS Lola, BRAUD Amandine, BREYE Michiel, BRULARD Carole, CAUT Benoît, CHARDOT Anouk, CHAWONA Alice, Chicken Boy, CIAMPA Barbara, CIUCHTA Jagna, COBBAUT Frank, COEMAN Bram, COOPMAN Marlies, D'AVENIA Valentina, DANSEUR n°1, DANSEUR n°2, DATI Sofia, DAVERIO Amelie, DE BIN Ellen, DE CALUWE Eli, DECOSTER Kevin, DELODDER Hanne, DEMETRIADES Chloe, DEMIRCIOGLU Derin, Disco Boy, DRAME Mohamadou, DUBOIS Aurélie, DUYVEJONCK Ole, ECKHARDT Judith, ENNASSIRI Yasmine, ESSUYEUR (l'), GEBEYAW NIGUSSIE Melat, GEUSSENS Dimitri, GILLOUARD René, GOESSAERT Luna, GRATEAU Romain, GUEMAS Pauline, HERMANS Ava, HIMMELMANN Anne, HINNERS Sabrina, HUYGENS Joke, JONCKHEERE Kristof, KAAN Bartu, KAPLAN Sophie, KRE Ayoh, L. POULBA Pauline, LABOR Aminata, LABOR Soto, LATREILLE KOLLING Priscila, LECAILLE Estelle, LECOUTERE Maureen, LIEPSCH Elisa, MAGOT Benjamin, MAN Joost, MANSSOUS Mebarka, MARCHAL Echo, MARQUEYROL Florence, MAURAS Benoît, Moulinette (la), NEFISSA BELHADJALI Sarah, NEUENSCHWANDER Constance, NGOGA Gladys, N'SEGUI Jean-Samuel, OBERT Ariane, ONANA ZOBO Alyson, ORHANT Norbert, PEDROSA Noëmie, PEU Katherine, PFISTER Stephanie, Plongeur (le), POINSOT Lucien, PUAUD Nathanaëlle, QUILICI Paola, REHOUMA Najma, RENARD Emilie, RIAULT Rémi, ROINTEX Jonas, ROMAN Lucas, SAID LEVAL Nadia, SANDO Julie, SARRAZIN Marion, SCHWERZMAN Pierre, SMOLDERS Laura, STEVENS Marlies, STRUYVE Famke, Talu, TARR Béla, TEMSAMANI Fateha, VAN DEN BERGHE Annelies, VAN DEN DRIESSCHE Jamison, VANDEN BROUCKE Tom, VANDENBROUCKE Brecht, VANDERMEULEN Ruben, VANKEIRSBULCK Lieve, VANUYTSEL Gilke, VAUCHER Jessica, VERHELST Marijn, VERHELST Nick, VILLENEUVE Mathilde, WAUTERS Laure, YOUINOU Francine ♪♪

support : La Galerie Centre d’Art Contemporain Noisy-le-Sec & Beursschouwburg