conferences GRAND MAGASIN

Generally, a lecture is a discourse about a specific subject, providing an enlightenment of the question being dealt with. But when the members of GRAND MAGASIN adopt this didactic format, it is highly likely that the question being raised, and the answer provided, will not follow parallel paths. Whether the theme is work, comprehension or routine, the thought of Pascale Murtin and François Hiffler adopts twists and turns, reflecting the meaning of the phrasings they use, whose mechanisms they expose with jubilation. In the performative catalogue of GRAND MAGASIN, action is structured like a language, and the activation of language triggers a taking-up of action: in unison, as a canon, their voices and bodies delve into the blind spots of language, overturn phrases, words, commas, and play on all the effects of misunderstandings. Le Sentiment de compréhension and Éloge et défense de la routine have in common their aesthetic of taking things literally and then unliterally with, in their crosshairs, the same question: “What does speaking mean?”