What are five magnificent belgian shepard dogs, their trainers, a philosopher, a psychoanalist, a disquieting figure of the resistance and a former legionnaire doing together on stage? Since May 2005, Michel Schweizer has kept a fertile dialogue with Dany Robert Dufour, philosopher, and Jean-Pierre Lebrun, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, about the problems and hypotheses advanced in their recent works. It develops a reflection around the mutations of the contemporary subject, as it is being formatted and subjugated by the vast project of capitalism. BLEIB questions the new social and psychological attitudes, created by the project of generalized alienation: the “man without gravity”.
BLEIB sets out to discover the lie of a “free” society, where the subject, placed in the very centre of the system, is invited to imagine himself as the sole decision-maker of the organization of his world. This creates a human animal available for all manipulations.
« Barbarity is a social order based not longer on symbolical, but on real power. From the moment that the established power is sustained – and refers to – its own force and no longer seeks to defend or protect anything else beyond its own existance as power, its statute of power, we have arrived at a state of barbarity. Do you know one of the important manifestations of power of our times that is not a manifestation of barbarity ? » - Charles Melman, entretiens avec Jean-Pierre Lebrun, L’homme sans gravité, jouir à tout prix
Alarming and new in this system is that it is constructed on blind subservience and the incapacity of the subject to resist – unless in the most tragic way - these new forms of power. Forms that have found their best actors-allies in the citizens-consumers we have become.

concept, direction and set design michel schweizer | with philippe desamblanc and titeuf de la fontaine st maurice, patrice foucault and top gun des plaines de thierarche, jean gallego and narco du clos champcheny, claude leclercq and sarko de la cite des foucault, françois vavasseur and robot du vieux marronnier, dany-robert dufour, gerard gourdot, jean-pierre lebrun, friedrich lauterbach, andrej skrha | artistic collaboration severine garat | technical director and light marc-emmanuel mouton or eric blosse | soundscape nicolas barillot | design franck tallon | photography frederic desmesure , jean-paul dubecq | dog consultants and techinical assistance yann armand, andrej skrha
| production/promotion nathalie nilias | administration helene vincent | thanks to patricia chen, jean-yves coquelin, jean-paul dubecq, romain louveau, cecile pecondon-lacroix, jean-luc petit, eric servant, scorpion du musher, jean-marc toillon, jean-marc teule | desenho de luz eric blosse, marc-emmanuel mouton, yannick taleux | support presentation lisbon culturesfrance e next step – programa cultura da união europeia

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