Farö Céleste
Hack the Circus
Justine Bernachon-Irisarri
France
Handstand, aerial
THE PROJECT / In a post-apocalyptic future, three women survivors take refuge in a shelter filled with vegetation and electronic debris. A community forms between these women of different ages and languages, bound to gather what remains of the catastrophe. A low-tech science-fiction show that explores coexistence, memory, and forgetting.
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.