Parting, Fusing, Telling: Deviating the narrative. From writing to voice

A collaboration between Mudam and Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain 

In the framework of the exhibitions Ho Tzu Nyen – Time & the Tiger (Mudam) and Eva L'Hoest – The Mindful Hand (Casino Luxembourg) With Eva Mancuso, author and philosopher

VENUE: Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

Participation fee: 10 € / 1,50 €  with the Kulturpass   
Booking required: visites@casino-luxembourg.lu / https://ypl.me/B6s 

They say that time erases everything until there’s nothing left. But what if time, before erasing everything, invented new things?  
   
The second part of the workshop held at Casino Luxembourg shifts the focus from image to voice. From Eva L’Hoest’s work Main Station, where sound connects fragmented visuals into a sensory experience, participants will learn how to add a voiceover to their previously generated moving images at the Mudam workshop. Through rhythm, repetition, and layered storytelling, they will construct their own “time pieces”—works that unfold in cycles, shaped by both abstraction and narration.    
 
The workshop is based on stories, myths, legends, and nursery rhymes from our childhood. Participants will be asked to rewrite them, letting the memory gaps, flaws, and hesitations due to the passing of time have their say and thus making the story go off course. The workshop is not just about telling a new story, but also about reflecting on our own intimate and personal relationship with history or myth. The new narrative will therefore be the result of both deconstruction and construction.  The voiceover will not seek to describe the images but rather give them a voice.  

 
Eva Mancuso is a poet and performer who lives and works in Brussels.  Her first book, Je n'arrive pas à parler et à dire des choses en même temps, was published by L’Arbre de Diane in April 2024. She has performed, among others, at Maison poème, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles Paris, NOVA XX biennial, La Loge, Ateliers Mommen, Art au Centre, Espace Magh. With her sister, Anna Mancuso, she created the performance Je veux rester trouble comme la flaque à côté de la grue à côté du canal, an adaptation of her book. It is a post-#MeToo performance that returns to a pre-#MeToo world to talk about the desire not to let yourself be shaped by the desire of others. She has published in the print media (Sabir, L’écharde, etc.) and online (Trounoir, lundi.matin, Remue.net). Eva Mancuso has created solo readings and performances, notably as part of the MUTANTX residency at the Biennale de l’Image Possible; as part of Thu-Van Tran’s exhibition at La Loge; in collaboration with Sébastien Plevoets at Ateliers Mommen, or with Eva L’Hoest at Îles Mardi and Casino Luxembourg.   

Photo: Eva Mancuso © Romain Guédé