jeanfrançois blanquet

auborddugouffre Les Tanneurs/Brussels

15-19 march 2011 Tanneurs Theater/Brussels. 20h30
from -close to the knives- by david Wojnarowicz, directed by lucille Calmel with sébastien Lentheric & mathias Varenne, performance set design : gaêtan Rusquet, artistic advising : mathias Beyler, interactivity advising : thierry Coduys, programming & interactivity design : philippe Boisnard, sound performer : jeanfrancois Blanquet, translation : laurence Viallet (désordre -le serpent à plumes editions), graphism :axelle Carruzzo, production & tour management : sylvia Botella. sound rec : aymeric de Tapol. video filming and editing : jérôme Blanquet.

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“close to the knives” is a reference book of gay literature and north-american counterculture, a great book on aids, but is above all a dazzling literary text, an outcry of a virtuoso romantic writer, a flayed man beaten out by life who writes about his existence and time, we are in the 80s bohemian New-York and its underworld fauna (squatters, prostitutes, junkies, transvestites…)…combining different textual materials, Wojnarowicz speaks about his hate of being alienated, his constant quest for freedom, his furtive and anonymous sexual encounters. Death slowly creeps into the text, the author facing the loss of his friends and his own announced destruction.
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