With her fiery hair and sharp gaze, Pamina de Coulon takes hold of you in this intimate and clearly militant and lavish show. From the first flower of the year, through tears, rust, rustics and police violence, on to the ever-changing dynamics of colonization, the artist shares a cascade of questions with us in this latest opus of her FIRE OF EMOTIONS saga. Far from spreading herself too thin, she nimbly steers the course of her “spoken essay”. NIAGARA 3000, like the other pieces in the saga, takes us on a journey, going from one digression to the next along the paths of the artist’s thought. Spoken word is what this piece is about, the movement of speech towards others, and as Pamina de Coulon generously shows us, how inextinguishable its energy is.
Pamina de Coulon - BONNE AMBIANCE
FIRE OF EMOTIONS - NIAGARA 3000
Research, script, concept and performance Pamina de Coulon
Sets Pamina de Coulon et Alice Dussart
Lighting Alice Dussart
Production and Diffusion Sylvia Courty / BOOM’STRUCTUR
Production BONNE AMBIANCE
Coproduction Le Magasin des Horizons, Grenoble and Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
biography
Pamina de Coulon is an author and performer. She studied at HEAD in Geneva, in the Art Action section, then at the ULB and “L’L-lieu d’accompagnement à la jeune creation” in Brussels. Her main form of expression is the spoken word, which she articulates in the spoken essay, an oral form of creative non-fiction. Pamina also grows flowers and potatoes, and fights against nuclear power and patriarchal capitalism in general. She lives with a chronic illness that gives her a specific experience of both pain and the unquestioned validism of our Western societies, where everything is organized around ‘fit” bodies. Since 2017, BONNE AMBIANCE has been the company in residence at the Arsenic – the center for contemporary performing arts in Lausanne. Between 2018 and 2021, Pamina was one of the artists in residence at the ambitious Magasin des Horizons project in Grenoble. Since 2012, she has collaborated with Sylvia Courty and Boom’Structur, for the production and dissemination of her work, and with Alice Dussart and Vincent Tandonnet, for the lighting and stage management of her pieces.
Press review
“Qui est Pamina de Coulon, figure montante de la scène helvétique”
Les Inrocks, Jérôme Provençal
“Au festival d’Avignon, Pamina de Coulon bien au-dessus du flot”
Libération, Anne Diatkine