Patricia Allio

At @FestivalAvignon we take a deep dive into #DISPAK_DISPACH which is a device imagined by @pat_allio author and director for film and theatre from #Brittany. Among many realities we present our stories, struggles and survivals in an artistic way of theatres of Permanent People’s Tribunal, here we meet with Bernardo Montet, a choreographer, Leonie Pernet, a musician, Moctar Dan Yaye from @AlarmephoneS, @Yambiodavid ,Bridget Anderson, author and director of migration mobilities in England, Jalila Khensissi, Tunisian activist who fights for freedom of movement and the right to repatriate bodies and Damien Careme, MEP since 2019, former mayor of the city of Grande Synthe from 2001 to 2019. Bernado Montet writes: “The torn between oneself and the world, the intimate tear force us to constantly seek our place, putting us in an extreme fragility, where the question of existence becomes the ultimate question. We are experiencing a profound change, an existential crisis on the scale of a civilization, of a species. We do not belong exclusively to territories, to nations, to fatherlands, but to places, to linguistic crossroads, to desired languages, to chosen communities. We want to define ourselves other than by the accidents of birth, nationality or citizenship. Movement is the only chance of survival for many migrants. And we can only be indignant, revolted by the spectacle of the increasingly demeaning treatment reserved by our European states for people exiled from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, forced to flee the consequences of imperialism; social distress, to which are abandoned today the black, Asian and North African proletarians and sub-proletarians; of the unequal distribution of mobility capacities. After a long tradition of demolishing African sovereignties, we are witnessing the establishment of a “necropolitics” of reception, aiming at the death of certain often precarious populations. Politics valuing the mechanisms of domination and power that dictate who can live and who must die in our societies.”