Sylvain Souklaye: collective intimacies and epigenetic memories

Episode von Fem Poem · 6. April 2021 · 1 h 00 min

In this episode Romina Achatz is in conversation with Sylvain Souklaye, a Brooklyn-based French multimodal artist who is working at the intersection of live performance, sound art, performative installation and social research. He is interested in sampling intimacies about people who don’t belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality.

After a short introduction the episode starts with 2 poems. After the poetry Sylvain talks about his life and career paths. The conversation deals with the questions: What is intimacy for you? What is your definition of Epigenetic?

Further Information: www.sylvainsouklaye.com/

Manifesto: „Sylvain Souklaye explores collective intimacies and epigenetic memories as a living language and the body as the last remaining proof. He questions the “Safe Space” while history always has been a minefield for his ancestors. Are minds, souls and bodies broken by generations able to accept peace? To process healing? Or are pain and warfare the only way because nothing and nowhere is safe?

BUT

But what about Now and Then? They are the continuation of denunciation and a reconciliation process.

With the NOW Sylvain Souklaye documents the casual and disconnected barbary as endless storage information becomes the most efficient form of amnesia. With the THEN he investigates, warns, theorises our automated civilization and the extinction of empathy.

Sylvain Souklaye offers his mind, soul, body and the unsettling space with the audience and makes them the new carrier of his epigenetic history. It is not a social, gender or skin colour epigenetic.“

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