Spectacle : La Dette, à l’usage des générations futures

What do we owe one another? And what world are we passing on to future generations?

Drawing from Debt: The First 5000 Years by anthropologist David Graeber, Vincent Collet sets out to understand how debt became much more than an economic tool: a collective fiction capable of organizing our human relationships, our desires, our fears, and our sense of helplessness.

Yet over the course of this research, the inquiry expands. It confronts the crisis in the cultural sector, the contradictions of the art world, and above all a personal surrogacy journey pursued for several years. While trying to become a parent, the author wonders what kind of world we hand down to future generations, and what stories could still be invented to transform it.

On stage, readings, archives, autobiographical accounts, and fictional fragments create a free, sensitive journey through the mechanics of debt, from the earliest forms of money to contemporary capitalism. Supported by a large visual fresco conceived as a time capsule addressed to the future, La Dette explores our ability to break free from confining narratives to imagine alternative ways of living together.