Elisabeth Morcellet
Élisabeth Morcellet, author and artist, is known in the performance art field. Writing, artistic action, and lived experience nourish a protean body of work that breaks down boundaries. Her main exhibitions and actions include "Art in Action" in Nice. Act I (2011), "À la Vie Déliberée" Villa Arson (2012), "La Prom' pour Atelier" Mamac (2015), in Blois "Combat d'idées" Fondation du Doute (2013), in Paris "Cabaret Dada" Halle Saint-Pierre, Les Frigos (2016), in Gentilly "Frasq Festival" Le Générateur (2016-2022)... Since 2013, short texts—poems, essays, songs—have been read, performed, and published in journals (Olga, L'Intranquille, Chroniques du ça et là, Délits d'encre, Étoile d'encre...). A first novel, Ne jamais en finir, was published in 2020 by Sans Escale. In 2022, a second novel, Bien le temps d'être libre, was published by La P'tite Hélène éditions, followed by a poetic novel, Duo mi-clos, published by Unicité. This fourth novel, Living Until the Future, offers a unique story that blurs the lines between genres.
This poetic narrative, somewhere between autofiction, journal, and speculative fiction, tracks a fleeting memory—amorous, human, and artistic—that of a past in the future, spanning from 1995 to 2105. True and false memories defy the years. Pleasures? Anxieties? From this subjective experience, from "I" to "you," from this "we," what remains? The voices seem to answer a call for serene resistance, for the ephemeral beauty of these moments, in the face of societal or technological tyranny. Which narrator or reader will solve the enigma of the future and of planet Earth? Are we creating the deadly archives of tomorrow's world? Here, the author strings words together, or unfolds them along the long thread of a resonant coincidence, like a drawing, a possible design, to be inscribed against amnesia. Islands and fragments of existence punctuate this narrative and attempt a reflection on the living being. Faced with the vertigo of nothingness, when, and how, can one resign oneself to saying "the end"? Publication date: January 1, 2024 Order now
