• Conception and performance : Joris Lacoste
• Production: Échelle 1:1, far° festival des arts vivants Nyon
• Support: Institut français, French embassy in Switzerland
• Acknowledgments: Mr. Darrer

La maison vide is a show that functions as a one-on-one hypnotic session during which Joris Lacoste, through the sole power of words, creates the conditions for experiencing of a “prepared dream,” that is, the visit of a house made up of secret rooms, unexpected metamorphoses, and concrete emotions. It is a house to be dwelled in with one’s imagination.

After each performance, a public discussion takes place, the hypnotized spectator telling his experience.