V. Jourdain

V. Jourdain lives and works between Québec and France.

V. Jourdain works on their experience as an artist and cultural worker. They knowingly developed the imposter syndrome in the microcosm of contemporary art, their sense of belonging being limited because of the deployment of neoliberal cultural management.

Their research and concerns focus in recent years on art labour and its conditions, the representation of LGBTQI + minorities and the care for affective memories/archives through the prism of art and activism. They are willing to open in France a feminist residence dedicated to research / creation devoted to artists, activists, researchers, taking the risk to break the republican pact and its negation of subordinates. At 40, they also want to devote time to founding a decent collective framework for aging and taking care of themself and their TPG friends.

They invited Hugues Jourdain to think with them about this proposal for Invisible Archives. Hugues Jourdain is an actor and director who graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. He develops a sensitive and playful theatre. He is overwhelmed by the voice of Marguerite Duras, the plays of Chekhov and the gorgeous guys from American horror films of the 2000s.

He staged his first show “My body that shivers” in 2017, inspired by the world of Copi. He then mounted a seul en scène adapted from Guillaume Dustan’s novel “In my room” in 2018. For now, he is working on a new creation “Last love” with which he would like to break the curse of heartache.