Exposition la VRAC
SEASON 17
SHOP WINDOW VISIBLE FROM RUE DROITE 7 DAYS A WEEK
VRAC: Regional Contemporary Art Showcase
At the foot of the Belfry, across from the Tourist Office and Place des Consuls.
V.R.A.C. aims to create a dynamic that makes contemporary art present, accessible, direct, and active in ways that are new to the city of Millau and its region.
NO ANGER from July 10 to September 20
No Anger is an artist, author, researcher, and queer and anti-ableist activist based in Lyon.
After studying at the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon and the École normale supérieure de Lyon, No Anger earned a Ph.D. in political science in 2019. Their dissertation, *Challenging the Sexualization of the Gaze: An Analysis of the Protest Strategies of FEMEN and Post-Porn*, focuses on “nudity and sexual representations in political protest.” The research analyzes the impact of the hegemonic discourse produced by television, film, and advertising on perceptions of the bodies of women and LGBT+ people, as well as the ways in which this dominant narrative is challenged.
No Anger’s research draws on the study of “bodily scripts” to understand how the dominant imagination is formed and how it structures society’s view of bodies and the resulting discrimination. Her work examines how “what we imagine about bodies influences the ways we display and view them, which in turn influences the practices—particularly discriminatory ones—of social actors.”
No Anger’s artistic practice blends video art, performance art, and literary writing. Her approach questions the modes of expression and display of bodies, aiming to express the experience of marginalized bodies that break free from their hegemonic representation.
Among her most emblematic works is *Quasimodo aux miroirs*, a choreographed performance first presented at MAC VAL in 2018. This work proposes new aesthetics of the “disabled body” and articulates feminist, queer, and anti-ableist struggles. The performance has also been created in a duet version, notably with the artist and philosopher Emma Bigé. The work explores how “Quasimodo gradually taught me to see myself as a repulsive body. [...]
How have social logics, through cultural productions, shaped my personal narrative and constructed my relationship to desire?
Her theoretical work develops the concept of “repulsive bodies,” which “is based on the idea that certain representations of bodies, fictional bodies, shape a certain way of looking at bodies and reflect the ways in which bodies are depicted in the social world.”
In 2022, No Anger co-founded the Ostensible collective with Lucie Camous, a research-creation organization that conducts an intersectional and transdisciplinary exploration of disability and ableism.
Bertille BAK from October 2 to December 31
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