Une semaine d'hystérie made in USA.

Une semaine d'hystérie made in USA was born from the desire of shouting and from the frustration of having to retain itself to avoid being classified in the «hysterical» category. There is none militant claim (political, social, ecological, etc.) except maybe the acceptance which the woman evolves, still explores what it is possible to be and can now leave her image of woman as an object (soft, delicate and diplomatic) to be, inter alia, as forces and aggressive as masculine. This work is a need to exteriorize a clash which is not possible to solve in the real life by howling its anger in the form of a monologue, without never letting answer its interlocutor.
I watched and recorded the dialogues of three American soap opera (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives) for a week. I selected the most intense arguments and only kept the female dialogues to turn them into a monologue where I would never be vexed by the counter-attacks of Jack, Victor or Stefano. I play out the dialogues of the heroines with another intensity, that which I wanted to give to my arguments. The use of this language, a simple and efficient translation of the American, French out of context, gives this argument the burlesque side that I am looking for in my work.

Cecile Wesolowski