WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE is a film and musical performance inspired by the archives of the architectural project "Reversible Destiny - Healing Fun House" - an "eco-queer community" imagined by artists, poets, and architects Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa. In line with her previous works, Louise Siffert transforms these archives into playful and poetic objects. While the duo Gins and Arakawa designed structures capable of emancipating bodies from norms, control mechanisms, and idealization processes, Louise creates a bright space, rich in textures and colors, perhaps even capable of defying death.

After a residency at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in 2022 and 2023, plastic artist Louise Siffert created her first work, “We have decided not to die", at the Ménagerie de Verre in December 2023.

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Conception, performance: Louise Siffert / Dramaturgy and directing assistant: Emma Axelroud Bernard / Costumes, makeup and artistic support: Anna Severina Perrin / Music: Léo Gobin et Louise Siffert / Décor and costumes : Louise Siffert
Construction décor: David Posth- Kohler / Lighting design: Valentin Bigel / Production and distribution: Camille Bono 

With support from Claire Finch, Anna Severina Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Céline Peychet, Pauline L.Boulba, Emma Axelroud Bernard, Léo Gobin and Valentin Bigel
Visual credits: Louise Siffert

Production delegated to the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers with the support of: département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, région Île- de-France, DICRÉAM-CNC, CNAP- Centre national des arts-plastiques, and CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de la ville de Bordeaux, Ménagerie de verre (coproduction), Compagnie DCA / La Chaufferie.