Besoin modeste assiette plate Discussion and performance: Art Brut writings or when the language is set free

Discussion and performance: Art Brut writings or when the language is set free

  • Conference
  • 50 years

On 30 May 2026 11:30 

Researchers Federico Dotti and Levon Pedrazzini present the notebooks of Mr. M., confined to the Bel‑Air Asylum in the canton of Geneva in 1911, as well as their publication Le livre de Monsieur M, published by Antipodes Editions, 2026.
With the participation of Michel Thévoz, director of the Collection of Art Brut from 1976 to 2001 and author of the work Les Écrits bruts – le langage de la rupture (Canoë Editions, 2021).

Moderation: Aude Fauvel, associate professor, Institute of Humanities in Medicine, CHUV‑UNIL.

AbSTRAL compost Performance
Besoin modeste assiette plate, monologue-show, written and performed by rapper AbSTRAL compost. Performance built around the texts of Samuel Ernest Daiber, confined for many years in several psychiatric institutions of French‑speaking Switzerland.