L'Affaire Robinson

"It is perhaps only at the Festival that I'll be able to deploy my work in all its facets, beginning with a reading that will allow my texts to be heard in complete complicity", Olivier Cadiot said in a perfectly natural way, reflecting on his new role as associate artist (of words) at the Festival d'Avignon. "And why not imagine it in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes?" Olivier Cadiot already had to measure up to this legendary venue in 2004, during a performance preceding the concert by Rodolphe Burger. This time, he will work alone, at the table, for an hour, reading in the set of Christoph Marthaler's show, a book made of all his books. An accelerated crossing of his body of work, this Robinson Affair follows the alter ego character that he invented over nearly 15 years and five novels, The Colonel of the Zouaves, Definitive and Durable Return of the Loved One, Fairy Queen, A Nest What For and A Magus in Summer. A literary myth, Robinson has become the reflection of daily life in our time, which he reinterprets by blending memories, feelings and hallucinations of the mind in it. Words that come to his imagination attempt to channel his sensations and impressions. Olivier Cadiot loves this Robinson character who grows old with him, who opens a common track in his various texts. A paper being who is neither a master nor a manifesto, but a proposal. A proposal that would create a big brother who was not at all well intentioned. In short, a condensation of Olivier Cadiot. ADB