New York, January 2025.
The box is from Cathy Weis’ archives.
 © Alix Eynaudi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presages, small acts of love

This is a séance. You are entering a conversation that was already underway.

Alix Eynaudi invites you into a cozy room; pillows, tea, books, a body ready to move. The work treats prophecy as an embodied practice, listening to gestures, hesitations, and affects as forms of knowledge. Here, prophecy is understood as a way of feeling: to sense the worlds already taking shape around us.

You arrive with a question, something ordinary, uncertain, not yet named. You write it down. It stays between you and the room. Alix Eynaudi doesn’t know what you asked.

Then she dances. Behind the dancing ‘I’, a crowd assembles: fragments and remains, pages turned by other dancers’ feet, other librarians’ hands, other oracles’ tongues. A medium through which what has already been written and danced lingers: l’air du temps. The accidental and the everyday require a prophetic charge. The dance moves through possible answers, lets itself be inhabited by them, brushes against their paradoxes. What emerges is a presage, something felt before it is understood, that leaves a mark before you notice it. An imprint left for others to reinhabit. As Simone Forti wrote: ‘we live to make footholds for each other’.

After the dance the question surfaces. Texts are chosen and read aloud. Words, movements, silence, and the floor that holds the shelves: everything offered becomes a possible response.

Let us attend to the room and its past and future hauntings together!

Come unprepared.

 

References & lineage
Paula Caspão (Institute of Rest(s), Haunted Nap), Cathy Weis (Madame Xenogamy), Jennifer Lacey (Extended Hermeneutics, Teach Back), Valentina Desideri & Denise Ferreira da Silva (Poethical Readings/Sensing Salon), Kathleen Stewart (Ordinary Affect), Isabelle Stengers (Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices), Mette Edvardsen (Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine), Christian Kosmas Mayer (Wearing the Walls), Sarma (oralsite.be)

By and with Alix Eynaudi and a whole library of accomplices
Costumes An Breugelmans
Management: mollusca productions
Advice on accessibility for relaxed performance in an One-to-One setting: Elena Lach
Advice on implemented audio description in an One-to-One setting: Ray Scheinecker

A co-production by Boîte de Production and brut Wien