Post-coital Tristesse

Post-coital Tristesse curated by Delphine Marinier & Lan Hungh artistes present in the video: Ilya Noé & Joël Verwimp, Delphine Richter PCT Performance Collaboration Tales (Post-Coital Tristesse) PCT, Post-Coital Tristesse, describes a moment of depression and emptiness that follows sexual intercourse. Taking up this metaphor as a guideline, PCT - Performing Collaboration Tales questions the potentials, chances, problems and limits of collaboration in performance art concerning the performers themselves as well as their relation with the audience and with the performance’s setting in space and time. PCT will be developed in following formats: live performances of couples (in life or in art creation), workshops and documentation. The live performances and the workshops create tales around the intensity of couple interaction in performance art. They bring up the needs, hopes, fears, sensations and hesitations involved in collaboration understood as fu