Christophe Fiat

Christophe Fiat is a writer and performer. From Lady Diana Spencer to the collapse of the Twin Towers, he studies society and its cultural products, its fantasies and fears. Documented, learned and yet banal, fictional, political and poetic, his language steamrollers the audience with its constant loops, repetitions and ritornellos. In his performance he plays on the iconic figure of the rocker, using an old electric guitar from which he has removed five of the six strings. Nothing could be less spectacular: he delivers his text in a monotone so that when the performance is over, all that remains is the memory of the words. La Reconstitution historique, a project about literature and dance, is Fiat’s first collaborative piece, produced with dancer Rémy Héritier and video artist Louise Armand. As a complement to his book, La Reconstitution historique – une aventure de Louise Moore (Al Dante, 2006), here he sets out to construct the narrative of a contemporary epic, using significant duration. This narrative features the journalist Louise Moore, following her from her research visit to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, to her kidnapping and decapitation by terrorists. Through his numerous references to the United States, to its culture and in particular its cinema, and in his analysis of the discourse about America on this side of the Atlantic, Fiat is talking to us about the state of French society.