Continuous 30′ storytelling on the pier

Supported by the E.S.I.M. association, this flash course is an immersion in the ecology of storytelling. At the crossroads of neuroscience, mythology and life sciences, it explores a simple yet powerful idea: when stories stop circulating, places become impoverished. Through a founding myth of Lake Geneva, collective practices and ritual gestures, participants become guardians of stories – responsible for their transmission, transformation and symbolic power. An intergenerational experience, joyful and engaging, to relearn how to listen to places and tell stories in a different way.

Perfomance, storytelling, music 40′ around 4:00 pm

In this mini-conference, Paul Courlet immerses us in the work of Jeska Kaola, an avant-garde intuitive researcher who evoked the notions of brain waves, synchronization and trance in her 1808 essay Épidermes ondulatoires (Kaola, Jeska, Epidermes ondulatoires Édition Solaris, 1808). Disappeared from the radar and reviled by the scientific community, she was in her time a precursor of therapeutic hypnosis and anticipated the discoveries about brain function made later through brain imaging. She was also close to the famous international trader Jaklos Bariolez Igwan (1755-1816), renowned for his audacity and divinatory powers.

Performance, installation, narrative 25′ continuous in the Yurt

What do luminous objects have to say when we finally give them a voice? In this sound installation, it’s light that plays the leading role: a simple electric bulb on a stand. It flickers. But even more astonishing: it speaks. Could it be that this lamp has emerged from the abyssal depths, from the compact blackness at the bottom of Lake Geneva? A ghostly lamp that seems to carry sunken stories – tales of wrecked ships, missing scenes, lives or voices that have sunk into the lake – but also, the tale of its own invention.