FOCUS #1 - BRAINROT

✴ 8pm - BRAINROT

On our screens: a human toilet chanting the skibidi anthem, Mark Zuckerberg on all fours like a cute puppy, a crying cat. “Brainrot” refers to the viral flow of short videos, AI-generated images, and self-deprecating memes that scroll through our feeds. The term refers both to the poison (skibidi toilet) and the symptom (cognitive saturation fueled by scrolling).

Contrary to the logic of hyperindividualism and intellectual property, brainrot favors viral circulation, wild reappropriation, and collective and anonymous creation; it replicates and is exchanged in DMs. A degenerate and mutant heir to net.art, it catalyzes contemporary nihilism, giving it its most neurotic form: by endlessly recycling already empty images, it transforms the impossibility of belief into a frenetic reappropriation of our own tools of alienation. The artists in this session draw on the new grammar of this collective fatigue to exacerbate its aesthetic, existential, and political significance.

✴ 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.