One way or another

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER Jerk Off Festival 2026 x Lucie Camous Collective writing and performed readings The Jerk Off Queer Festival has entrusted Lucie Camous with curating this evening dedicated to collective writing and individual voices. Through the writing workshop ‘Nous, exigeons’ led by Anouk Chatellier and Camille Cornu, followed by a reading of the texts produced there, the aim is to bring forth shared voices, common desires and a space for advocacy. The evening continues with carte blanche given to No Anger, who will present new performed texts. A programme designed as a space where words can come together, transform and assert themselves. ............................................................... PRACTICAL INFORMATION 7.00 pm (workshop) – 9.00 pm (performances) At the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Free entry, booking required Bar and food available on site from 7.00 pm ............................................................... PROGRAMME 7.00 pm: Writing workshop ‘Nous, exigeons’ Workshop led by Anouk Chatellier & Camille Cornu 9.00 pm: Reading of ‘Nous, exigeons’ Collective text read by Anouk Chatellier & Camille Cornu 9.30 pm: Carte blanche to No Anger Texts performed by No Anger PLEASE NOTE: Doors open for audience members between 8.00 pm and 9.00 pm; no entry will be permitted after this time. ............................................................... THE PROGRAMME “Nous, exigeons” writing workshop Workshop led by Anouk Chatellier & Camille Cornu and I want and I’d really like and I’d wish and I’d wish for you and I’d want us to and I need and I fancy and I want you. A writing workshop to express ourselves, to say what we have, what we cherish, what we ask for, what we crave, who we crave, what we demand – an invitation to write, to tell the stories of our queer bodies, our deviant bodies. An experiment in collective writing at the crossroads of the poetic manifesto and individual narratives. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Free workshop, open to all No registration required Reading from “We Demand” Collective text read by Anouk Chatellier & Camille Cornu This staged reading offers the opportunity to discover, for the first time in public, previously unpublished texts taken from a book currently being written. At the crossroads of sociological self-analysis, personal narrative and artistic writing, this book explores how dominant imaginaries shape our perception of bodies, and more specifically of disabled bodies. Through autobiographical fragments, childhood memories and a reflection on language, images and ‘bodily scripts’, the reading reveals how a body learns to tell its own story as an artist, drawing on representations that often leave it no room at all — and how it can gradually subvert them, shift them and invent new ones. These texts, still a work in progress and never before published, find their first public form here in the very act of performance Carte blanche to No Anger Unpublished performed texts No Anger, born in 1990, is a queer and disabled artist. In 2015, they launched a blog, *À mon geste défendant*: drawing on feminist and queer thought and their own experience, they develop a critique of ableism. In 2019, they were awarded a PhD in political science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Through their practice of video art, performance and literary writing, they examine the ways in which bodies are displayed; bodies which, embedded in a shared imagination, are shaped by relations of domination. ............................................................... THE ARTISTS Camille Cornu — Camille Cornu writes poetry and experimental fiction. They are interested in deviant bodies as both threats and bulwarks against capitalism. Their writing explores alliances between plants and queerness, reality and magic, and humour and the absurd. Their notable publications include *Habiletés Sociales* (Flammarion), which examines processes of normalisation within psychiatric institutions and the way in which reality becomes intertwined with the absurd. In 2024, *Photosynthèses* (Cambourakis) focuses on the porosity of our bodies and questions the construction of gender from a non-binary perspective. Anouk Chatellier of the Créatures Littéraires workshops — Anouk Chatellier is an author, poet and performer born in 1999 in Normandy. Her work features funny, sexy and tender stories about the body, at the crossroads of drag and poetry. In 2024, she founded Creatures Littéraires, an organisation running queer and activist writing workshops, and organised numerous poetry and literary events in the Île-de-France region. In May 2025, following a creative residency at Les Arches Citoyennes (Paris), she published *Mieux vaut tard la tendresse*, a story about survival, friendship and coming of age. She regularly leads workshops at art schools that explore writing about the body and examine its visual representations. No Anger — No Anger, born in 1990, is a queer and disabled artist. In 2015, they launched a blog, *À mon geste défendant*: drawing on feminist and queer theory and their own experience, they develop a critique of ableism. In 2019, they were awarded a PhD in political science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Through their practice of video art, performance and literary writing, they examine the ways in which bodies are represented; bodies which, embedded in a shared imagination, are shaped by relationships of domination. Winner of the 2023 Utopi-e Prize and the 2025 ADAGP x Bétonsalon Grant, No Anger is currently an associate artist at the CCN in Nantes and a ‘pépite’ artist at Les Subsistances (Lyon). They have presented their performances and works at venues including the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Silent Green Film Feld Forschung (Berlin). Lucie Camous — Lucie Camous is an exhibition curator and artist. A co-founder of the collectives Ostensible and Modèle vivant·e, they produce the podcast *Variations*, teach crip studies at university and curate programmes at several art centres, most recently the literature and performance festival *Et je serai à tes côtés* at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris).