Julie Gilbert CH
La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes
Installation littéraire téléphonique
Performance / installation
Have you read Olympe de Gouges? Do you know Catherine Colomb? Does Audre Lorde ring a bell?
Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes is a literary installation designed to help you discover or rediscover unknown or forgotten women writers through monologues invented by contemporary authors and delivered over the telephone. Like a call from beyond…
As if these women writers were calling us back from their invisible world to make us want to read them, to spread their texts and their ideas.
Texts written by Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Valérie Cachard, Jihane Chouaib, Odile Cornuz, Anaïs de Courson, Céline Delbecq, Solenn Denis, Penda Diouf, Latifa Djerbi, Cynthia Edul, Marie Fourquet, Barbara Geib, Julie Gilbert, Douna Loup, Karelle Ménine, Florence Minder, Sarah Jane Moloney, Marie-Louise Mumbu (Bibish), Emmelyne Octavie, Nadège Prugnard, Antoinette Rychner, Marina Skalova, Dorothée Thébert, Salimata Togora, Isabelle Wéry, Hermine Yollo, Patricia Zangaro, Alice Zeniter, Mara Züst.
Duration of each “call”: 6 to 8 minutes
Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes will be open to the public free of charge during opening hours.
The Fahrenheit 451 bookshop will be on hand with books by the women writers featured in Bibliothèque Sonore des Femmes.
The program of workshops and meetings of Toute la maison écrivait en moi can be found on this page.
Villa Bernasconi / Lancy
Tickets
Free entrance at the La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes during opening hours
Tuesday, 05 September : 18:00-22:00
Wednesday, 06 September : 12:00-22:00
Thursday, 07 September : 12:00-22:00
Hosted, including a 2023 creation, and co-produced by La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, in co-production with the Villa Bernasconi - Centre d'art de la Ville de Lancy and with the support of the commune of Lancy
With the support of Fondation Émilie Gourd
Length 40 x 7' (Possibilité d'écouter un seul ou quelques textes ou tous les textes)
French
La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes
The writers:
Gaelle Bien Aimé, Valérie Cachard, Jihane Chouaib, Anaïs de Courson, Odile Cornuz, Céline Delbecq, Solenn Denis, Penda Diouf, Latifa Djerbi, Cynthia Edul, Marie Fourquet, Barbara Geib, Julie Gilbert, Douna Loup, Karelle Ménine, Florence Minder, Marie-Louise Bibish Mumbu, Sarah Jane Moloney, Emmelyne Octavie, Nadège Prugnard, Fabienne Radi, Antoinette Rychner, Marina Skalova, Dorothée Thébert, Salimata Togora, Isabelle Wéry, Hermine Yollo, Patricia Zangaro, Alice Zeniter, Mara Zuest
The readers:
Christina Antonarakis, Barbara Baker, Rebecca Balestra, Valéria Bertolotto, Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Emilie Blaser, Maya Bösch, Magdalena Bournot, Fanny Brunet, Radhia Chapot-Habbes, Jihane Chouaib, Claire Deutsch, Cléa Eden, Julie Gilbert, Pascale Güdel, Yvonne Harder, Kayije Kagame, Sarah Lecarpentier, Audrey Liebot, Marilú Marini, Mélina Martin, Claudia Mongumu, Olga Mouak, Emmelyne Octavie, Aline Papin, Julia Perazzini, Fanny Pelichet, Lamya Régragui, Jana Rudenko, Nora Steinig, Salimata Togora, Pascale Vachoux, Isabelle Wéry, Delphine Wuest, Hermine Yollo
Reference writers:
Maya Angelou, Ingeborg Bachmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Bessette, Catherine Colomb, Adelheid Duvanel, La Comtesse de Ségur, Emily Dickinson, Isabelle Eberhardt, Buchi Emecheta, Aicha Fofana,, Olympe de Gouges, Anne-Lise Grobéty, Lorraine Hansberry, Françoise Héritier, Marlen Haushofer, Agota Kristof, Audre Lorde, Ulrike Meinhof, Toni Morrison, Paulette Nardal, Marguerite de Navarre, Zora Neale Hurston, Olga Orozco, Anne Perrier, Christine de Pizan, Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Plath, Grisélidis Réal, George Sand, Sappho, Susan Sontag, Fadwa Souleimane, Doris Stauffer, Marina Tsvetaeva, Marianne Van Hirtum, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, May Ziadé
Idea and design
Julie Gilbert
With the complicity of
Frédéric Choffat
Installation and technical management
Philippe Maeder
Sound editors
Sarah Imsand, Elena Petitpierre
Administration
Mathias Ecoeur
Graphic design
Gaia Biaggi
Production
Le Bureau des écritures
Co-production
Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Sélection suisse en Avignon, Théâtre 140, Bruxelles, Le POCHE /GVE
Supports
République et Canton de Genève, Ville de Genève, Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature, Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature, BPEV – Bureau de promotion de l’égalité et de la prévention des violences
Thanks
Delphine de Stoutz, Michèle Pralong
Villa Bernasconi / Lancy
Tickets
Free entrance at the La Bibliothèque sonore des femmes during opening hours
Tuesday, 05 September : 18:00-22:00
Wednesday, 06 September : 12:00-22:00
Thursday, 07 September : 12:00-22:00
See also
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