Jeanne Lebrun writes like she speaks, and speaks like she thinks. Her words are fast, powerful, critical and lively. Driven by curiosity and rage, she thinks about the world as she inhabits it. She’s always working, and has developed a practice where life and art are truly enmeshed. Family, friends and encounters enable her to think and invent practices both on her own and with others. A few years at art school confirmed for Jeanne what she wasn’t up for her. With neither naivety nor cynicism, she has carved out a place between indulgence and intransigence, founded on an ethic often shaped by adversity and continually reaffirmed.
The essay “Noz” is written in a style that is spontaneous and direct, where she connects her personal experiences to major contemporary issues – the place of money and its representations, and the instrumentalisation of emotions in our current hegemonic economic and political system. This text is about how to cheat and self-organise, calling for joyful and collective resistance, for piracy and finding the cracks where alternatives and other ways of living are possible.