Date | Mouth (Chewing) – Valentine Paley (CH), Indra Berger (CH), Matthew Franklin (CH) Rave-Broth without electricity – Valentine Paley (CH), Collectif Tumulte (CH) |
Venue | The Kitchen / Central Location |
Price | Free |
It is on the edges of all things that the most interesting events happen: Mouth (Chewing)
Valentine Paley (CH) , Indra Berger (CH) // Matthew Franklin (CH)
The border is not just a threshold or a transitional space: it is a place of intensity and conviviality. In permaculture, the “edge effect” refers to the zone where two ecosystems meet, creating an environment rich in biological and relational diversity. In the practice of Vevey-based dancer and choreographer Valentine Paley, the danced gesture meets agricultural and domestic gestures, gaining a deeply rooted and sensitive dimension.
The most interesting things happen on the margins is grounded in this attention to the in-between: between bodies, between disciplines, between artists. For foodculture days, Valentine Paley presents three original choreographic and musical interventions — Rave-Broth, Soil, and Mouth (Chewing) — which resonate with works by other artists invited to this 5th edition. Each activation becomes a space for dialogue, where movement and food weave new ways of exploring the commons. Like soil cultivated at the edges, this project explores the power of the margins and the strength of encounters.
Guest Artists
Mouth (Chewing) with Indra Berger & Matthew Franklin
In echo with the intervention by Grace Gloria Denis – “Ecology of Encounters”
Sunday 8 June 2025 18:30-19:00
Photo credits: Frau Troffea ©Aline Paley
Valentine Paley is a dancer and choreographer. She trained in contemporary dance at Le Marchepied (Lausanne) and at the CDC – Centre for Choreographic Development in Toulouse. Since 2009, she has been committed to her own research. She creates and performs choreographic works (stage pieces, outdoor performances, performative installations) in Switzerland and beyond.
As a performer, she has collaborated with, among others, Jasmine Morand, Claire Dessimoz, Louise Hanmer, Cosima Grand, Oliver Roth, Audrey Bodiguel, Julien Andujar, and Ernestyna Orlowska. Passionate about collective adventures, she engages in a wide range of fields and projects, from agroecology to yoga teaching, from activism to contemporary art spaces.
Indra Berger (CH) is a cultural actor from Vevey, now based in Paris. She began her artistic path as a contemporary dancer before graduating in visual arts from the Geneva University of Art and Design. Active in various multidisciplinary collectives, she co-founded Life After God – LAG in 2017, an association that organizes concert-events. Her work focuses on collective practices and questions of hospitality, creating "particular moments."
She has worked for institutions such as Festival Images (Vevey), Visions du Réel (Nyon), and Le Castrum (Yverdon). She is currently production manager at La Ferme du Buisson, a national stage, art center, and cinema near Paris. She also continues to perform and collaborate occasionally with artists such as Julie Monot, Anne-Lise Tacheron, and Valentine Paley.
Matthew Franklin (CH) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of electronic music, electronic engineering, and video. Under the name Ok Matthew, he develops generative performances that combine analog audio and video synthesis, real-time data processing, and experimental audiovisual systems. A self-taught musician, he admires and respects the open-source community and its ethos of knowledge sharing. His practice is rooted in open collaboration, fostering innovation through shared resources and collective experimentation.
In addition to his artistic work, Matthew is a dedicated technician with a background in microtechnology and electronic engineering. His expertise spans audio engineering, stage technology, and the design of electronic musical instruments, placing him in a unique position to explore the intersections of sound, technology, and performance.