In collaboration with Productions RhizomeTOPO welcomes artists Maude Veilleux and Maud Joiret for an evening of poetic performances.
Maud Joiret – Gober tout
A performance by Maud Joiret in duet with sound artist Alexandre Berthier, created in Quebec City during two residencies at Rhizome. Based on texts by the author from Marées vaches (published by Castor Astral, 2023) and JERK With the participation of Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand, Juliette Bernatchez, Judy Quinn and Maude Veilleux. The poet explores cities + bodies + relationships + human + urban + solitude + horizons with cows / landscapes with holes in them. Or maybe it's the scenery that puts holes in her eyes. It makes bruises + it turns pink + red + it sounds + it takes time + does time count when you bite into it + she's not sure what's going on + there are so many + stories + about everything + around us + she takes a big bath in influences. She's inviting other poetesses, just to see. There's no reason to swallow it all (Gober tout) alone.
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Midis de la Poésie/Maison Poème.
Maude Veilleux – Le jeu du oui
Poet Maude Veilleux presents le jeu du oui, , a video poem/perfocussing on our digital experiences of overstimulation and emotional saturation. Inspired by the aesthetics of sludge content and the effects of brain rot, the project questions how these digital practices shape our relationship to language and condition our relationship to the world. Moo Deng, the Toulouse sky, the Lévis crisp factory, rubbish, flowers, Gollum, the geckos of Lagrasse, medieval decoration, holes, folds, ash, glue...
Maud Joiret
Maud Joiret was born in 1986 in Brussels. She is a poet and performer (on stage, on video, sometimes in front of a camera), and a literary columnist.
Cobalt, her first book of poetry (published by Tétras-lyre) received the First Work Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in 2020 and was adapted to video. Her second book, JERK, published in 2022 by l'Arbre de Diane, was brought to the stage in a production that combines text, music and dance. Marées vaches, her third book of poetry, is published by Le Castor astral in 2023. Her poetry is a willing hybridization of registers and genres, seeking the limits of sensations and narratives, to give rhythm to a quest for meaning.
