FOCUS #1 - BRAINROT

✴ 8pm - BRAINROT

On our screens: a toilet-human chanting the Skibidi anthem, Mark Zuckerberg on all fours as a good little dog, a crying cat. Brainrot — literally “rotting of the brain” — names the viral flow of short videos, AI-generated images, and self-deprecating memes flooding our feeds. The term points both to the poison (Skibidi Toilet) and to the symptom (cognitive overload fed by endless scrolling).

Against the logics of hyper-individualism and intellectual property, brainrot thrives on viral circulation, wild reappropriation, collective and anonymous creation; it replicates and spreads in the DMs. A degenerate, mutant heir of net.art, it catalyzes contemporary nihilism in its most neurotic form: by endlessly recycling images already emptied out, it turns the impossibility of belief into a frantic reappropriation of our own tools of alienation. The artists in this screening draw from the new grammar of this collective fatigue to amplify its aesthetic, existential, and political charge.

✴ 10pm - Performance, Feed the Feed by Denis Dedieu

Inside a house: a human being. Outside: immaculate green hills bathed in glorious sunshine—almost too beautiful to be true. It is noon. A voice announces it. The day can begin. First step: feed the feed.
Combining post-internet existential horror with autofiction, author, performer, and musician Denis Dedieu continues his exploration of an ambiguous reality tinged with uncanny strangeness, where the intimate and the virtual mix and contaminate one another.

Denis Dedieu is an author, performer, and musician from Pessac. After devoting himself to music with his duo Daisy Mortem, he co-wrote and starred in Isabelle Prim’s feature film Les Loups (nominated at FIDMarseille), performed for artists such as Sonia Chiambretto and Liv Schulman, and in 2025 presented his first performance, “EMI,” co-written with Ethel Lilienfeld, at the Botanique (Brussels). “Feed The Feed” is his first solo performance.