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Marlène Saldana - Jonathan Drillet
Spokaoké
09.28.18 - 8PM-10PM
Event — Bar le DAda
© PRINTEMPS DE SEPTEMBRE
PHOTO: FRANCK ALIX
© Marlène Saldana et Jean-Philippe Valour
Created by Annie Dorsen
French version by Jonathan Drillet and Marlène Saldana
With Jean-Phillipe Valour
Spokaoke is a participative event where people are invited to perform speeches just as they would sing songs in a bar. After all, aren't speeches songs of persuasion, debates or motivations? Just like karaoke gives the opportunity to affirm a mutual attachment to pop music, Spokaoke enables to play with the common heritage of spoken texts, using the extracts as a sort of "Top 50" speeches: Victor Hugo on the abolition of slavery, Colonel Gaddafi before the United Nations, Dominique Strauss Kahn on television, Sophie Marceau at the Cannes Film Festival…