Final/ment/seule

Final/ment/seule is part of a performance series called “femmeuses” in which Cécile Proust, dancer and choreographer, tries to ask herself about the status of women in art and society.

femmeusesaction #19, final/ment/seule is the prologue of a postface, personal and therefore political, full and sharp, feminist and sexual, precise and documented but sometimes vague and insincere. A phony lesbian who sleeps with men, Cécile Proust fires on all cylinders here, alone but very much surrounded, particularly by Jacques Hœpffner for the video and sound media. 

Somewhere between self-portrait and pamphlet, this intimate manifest also speaks for other voices. It is smooth and silky, yet at times rough and raging when its attention is turned to violence committed towards women and rights that have yet to be recognised. It is impatient and incomplete, truly incomplete, while questioning the scope of expectation and the special conditions of such a project. It is unique, and therefore universal. 

In short, an impossible thing.

THE FEMMEUSES PROJECT

For this solo, Cécile Proust showcases recollections of the Femmeuses Projectfrom its origins. It is a way of deconstructing the role and the concept of the author, as well as a means of recognising, as Yvonne Rainer puts it so well, “whether or not she knows that the content of her thoughts is entirely made up of what she has read, heard, said and dreamed. Whether or not she knows that it is nothing special, original or creative, and that the expression cogito ergo sum is, at the very least, inadequate.”

Updating: July 2014