« Poet and performer Catherine Lalonde opens her mouth wide and swallows everything, from the first word to the last sentence, from Jeux de brume (1991, Loup de Gouttière) to Trous (2024, Le Quartanier). Microbubbles of saliva escape, an echo joins the breath, and the tongue—expandable, extinguishable—smacks. At once a banquet of writing, laid bare and set ablaze, Relire reliler delivers the hours of writing in an act of seated speaking. The elastic voice and mouth bear witness to the paper: notebooks of poems, publishing contracts, drawings, and typescripts, the sum lies jumbled together on a work surface in the shadow of the turned pages. The author notes the comings and goings of the guests, pours them tea, then perhaps removes her shoes, her socks: the heart beats freely. Natural gestures contaminate the hands, the fingers, sometimes the feet. The word becomes the only unit of measurement; material promised for such an exploit. ».  – Annie Lafleur

Relire relier was created in 2016 at Concordia University’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, at the invitation of Sophie Bélair-Clément and Marie Claire Forté, as part of their exhibition I’d Rather Something Ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois.

The Festival international de la littérature (FIL) and Agora de la danse invited Catherine Lalonde to reinvest the performance by adding the reading of her latest book. The act becomes a post writing ritual.