Farö Céleste
Hack the Circus
Justine Bernachon-Irisarri
THE PROJECT / In a post-apocalyptic future, three women have survived by taking shelter in a dark place filled with electronic materials and plants. They don’t speak the same language, they’re not the same age, they don’t have the same stage experience. It’s an unchosen community, brought together by the need to collect and archive what’s remained after the catastrophe. In the hackerspace that serves as their home, we witness their daily lives, which revolve around electronic tinkering, invention, caring for their plants, their equipment and themselves. One fine day, a fourth woman arrives and forces them to question their relationship to cohabitation, understanding, memory and forgetting.
Hack the Circus is a low-tech science fiction show where all technological devices are handmade, just as you would make your own vegetable garden.
BIO / Trapeze artist, actor and performer, Justine Bernachon-Irisarri has worked for more than ten years as an interpreter for various companies between circus, theatre, dance and performance. She has worked with Compagnie Rasposo, Osmosis Dance, L’Eolienne, Eric Arnal Burtschy and Katalin Patkai.
Besides this activity, she founded Farö Céleste Association to find working spaces for research that crosses texts, objects and movements. In 2021, her first show Ofelia Song was created at Le Sirque, Pôle National des arts du cirque de Nexon, a solo on women’s bodies in art history. In October 2023, she took part in a documentary writing course at Ardèche Images (Lussas, France) to make a documentary about her relationship with three elderly circus women. Hack the Circus is her second project.