No Anger

Through their artistic practice, which combines video art, performance art and literary writing, No Anger examines the ways in which bodies are expressed and shown. Inscribed in a common language and imaginary, traversed by relationships of domination, words and images convey a vision of the world that legitimizes certain realities in relation to others, hierarchizing bodies among themselves. No Anger aims to express the experience of a minoritized bodies that free themselves from their hegemonic representation. Since 2015, they have maintained a blog entitled À mon geste défendant, in which they develop, based on feminist and queer thoughts and their own experience, a critique of ableism. In 2019, they obtained a doctorate in political science from the École normale supérieure in Lyon. In their thesis, they analyze how the hegemonic imaginary impacts the perception of women’s and queer people’s bodies and sexualities; and how this hegemonic reading can be contested. Drawing on her academic research, No Anger’s artistic work explores the potential of their lesbian and disabled body, proposing to reinvent the imaginary. In 2022, they and Lucie Camous co-founded Ostensible, a research and creative structure dedicated to disabiility and crip studies, which focuses on the intersectional issues of ableism. Winner of the Prix Utopi-e 2023, No Anger has presented their performances and works at ENS Lyon, MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou (Paris), au Mucem (Marseille), Silent Green Film Feld Forschung (Berlin), Magasins Généraux (Pantin) and CRAC (Sète). 

“Is a dignified body a standing body, a body sitting upright in a chair? 

“Lying on the floor or moving on the ground, a body can only be seen in opposition to images of propriety, power and health. The floor is the space of indecency, where bodies can be disturbed, misaligned, disassigned, disconnected and reconnected in a different way from what is socially accepted. In this contact-improvisation dance workshop, the space will be filled not only with bodies, but also with voices, sounds, words and ideas which, usually unheard and unthinkable, will set spatiality in motion and bodies in dance. Participants will be invited to be bodies, voices, dancing and/or reading, disordering space and rearranging the ground.” No Anger