What do we owe one another? And what world are we passing on to future generations?
Starting from Dette, 5000 ans d’histoire by anthropologist David Graeber, Vincent Collet sets out to understand how debt has become far more than an economic tool: a collective fiction capable of organising our human relationships, our desires, our fears and our sense of powerlessness.
But as this research unfolds, the inquiry overflows. It encounters the crisis in the cultural sector, the contradictions of the art world, and above all a personal journey of surrogacy pursued for several years. While he tries to become a parent, the author asks what world we are passing on to future generations, and what stories could still be invented to transform it.
On stage, readings, archives, autobiographical accounts and fragments of fiction make up a free and sensitive journey through the mechanisms of debt, from the earliest forms of money to contemporary capitalism. Carried by a large visual fresco conceived as a time capsule addressed to the future, La Dette explores our capacity to break out of the narratives that confine us and to imagine other forms of living together.