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La Défense stages the meeting of three entities: a litigant shares his or her story, a professional lawyer proposes a new plea, and the audience embodies both judge and witness.
Because it organizes relationships and regulates conflicts between members of a societý, justice is the keystone of the social and civic scheme. Yet while everyone agrees on its ideal and its mission, opinions differ as to its application. The fairness of justice is measured by the way it is delivered.
The Defense takes as its starting point this critical investigation into the way we view the organization and application of modern law, questioning our impulses to judge and repress, and the conditions under which they are implemented. It sheds light on the expeditious nature of an increasingly rapid justice system, where the defense has no time to develop, and where fundamental rights are put into crisis with the utmost indifference. In so doing, it poses a fundamental question: who still has the right to time, to be listened to and to be considered?
Inspired by the reflections of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Tadeusz Kantor, La Défense asserts its performative essence: not to represent but to act; to find an art that has the original force of action; and to build a collective experience of added time, a space of heterotopia where it becomes possible to reappropriate the work of justice.