Je me suis rendue jusqu’au bout, mais je n’ai pas trouvé la fin.
Part 1 (Se rendre jusqu’au bout)
Théâtre Prospero + 75 min
May 26, 7pm* Ticket
May 30, 5pm* Ticket
May 31, 9pm* Ticket
*Followed by a discussion on felt experience
Part 2 (Ce qui n’effacera rien)
May 25, 3pm Berri/Ontario S.O. + 15 min
May 26, 5pm Saint-Urbain/de Montigny N.E. + 15 min
May 30, 7pm Parc Charles-S.-Campbell + 15 min
June 1, 4pm Place de la Paix + 15 min
Co-presented with Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles
Free! No tickets required.
Part 3 (Nous ne connaissons pas la fin de l’histoire, en attendant il y a nos mots)
Place de la Paix + 60 min
June 1, 4:15pm
Co-presented with Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles
Free! No tickets required.
The performances are presented in French.
Structured in three parts, this performative triptych addresses the trauma of sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on her own experience and the accounts of others, the artist sheds light on systemic violence and the failings of the legal system, challenging the assumption that criminal and legal prosecution can ever put an end to trauma.
Part 1 (Se rendre jusqu’au bout)
Based on voluntary participation, this intimate reading reconstructs the artist’s testimony against her former partner in criminal court, turning what is typically a solitary act into a collective experience of solidarity.
Part 2 (Ce qui n’effacera rien)
Through a series of ephemeral performative gestures, this furtive public intervention evokes the boys’ club, as well as the processes of normalization, erasure, and exoneration at work in micro-aggressions and everyday gender-based violence.
Part 3 (Nous ne connaissons pas la fin de l’histoire, en attendant il y a nos mots)
Highlighting the challenges faced during the criminal prosecution process, this performance critiques the judicial system’s failure to adequately address cases of sexual and domestic violence.
Robie Schuler is a queer multidisciplinary artist of German descent. As a victim of domestic and sexual violence, her work is one of struggle. Through her practice, she unpacks both the psychological and sociopolitical mechanisms of domination that enable and perpetuate rape culture, and the feelings of paralysis, fear, and powerlessness they engender. She deconstructs empathic biases, activating their transformative potential. By making these dynamics felt from the inside, she reclaims sensitivity as a driving force toward social change and a path toward compassion-based collective healing.
Physical violence
Sexual agression