In Neurones miroirs (2023), Stefan Kaegi explored the relationships between the brain and the body, the individual and society. Facing a large mirror, the public was invited to participate in an expanded system, to take part in the simulation of a "giant brain". In Société Anonyme (2023), immersed in total darkness, he listened to the stories of people who cannot speak in the light.
Building on these performances, Stefan Kaegi begins a new investigation into anonymity in collaboration with Caroline Barneaud: essential to the practice of democracy, anonymity allows for the enjoyment of freedom of expression, the ability to remain invisible, to escape social obligations and the performance of self – but also, sometimes, to evade individual responsibility and the rules of the collective. Thus, one imagines a masked crowd, hidden beneath costumes and masks, creating evolving scenographies that give form to these questions, and to the stories of people who, for various reasons, act or express themselves only in anonymity.
The workshop will include collective discussions, documentary and theoretical research, as well as experiments around costume, sound, space, and movement. The goal will be to design and stage a collective experience of a "anonymous crowd" intended for a group of external participant-e-x-s.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop and on the degree of active engagement of the participant-e-x.