Peritopia 1
• IMPACTS - Zoé Grumberg is a historian whose work focuses on the history of Jewish people during and after the Holocaust. Jeanne Lazar is a director, actress, and writer. She is the artistic director of the theater company *Il Faut Toujours Finir Ce Qu’on a Commencé*.
What emerges from the collaboration between a theater director and a historian who share a family history marked by World War II and the Holocaust? As a researcher, Zoé Grumberg supports Jeanne Lazar’s investigation and creative process regarding the murder of her great-uncle and great-aunt in the summer of 1944. But this theatrical work also becomes source material for Zoé, who explores the transmission of wartime violence and the third generation’s appropriation of memory. Their collaboration gives rise to a reflection on the interactions between family history, historical research, and artistic creation. What effects do this investigation and these exchanges have on them?
• NO CERTAINTY SURVIVES - Julien Avril is a playwright and director. He directs the Nouvelle Troupe at Paris-Saclay University and founded the ENASCOR theater company.
What is the true nature of our reality? Does the world—do worlds—unfold independently of our observations? 150 years ago, quantum mechanics revolutionized our understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe. Julien Avril explores the concepts, paradoxes, and controversies underlying this theory, which is both ontologically incomplete and epistemologically complete. From Max Planck to Alain Aspect, via the famous EPR paradox and the Context-System-Modalities approach, all the way to the technological applications paving the way for the third quantum revolution, this documentary performance tests models through sensory experimentation.