What would happen if our emotions took shape before us? If we could touch them, observe them, accompany them? What impulses, what care, what responsibilities would that require?
In Affects, emotions are materialized into a gathering of makeshift electronic objects, welded, tangible, vulnerable, ambiguous, sometimes funny and often awkward, raising the question of cohabitation with what burdens us, overwhelms us, but also shapes us.
At the crossroads of a conference-demonstration on well-being in livestream and an esoteric tutorial, Affects subverts the codes of personal development — with humor, tenderness, and a pinch of science fiction — to question emotional sovereignty, the narrativization of trauma, and collective care gestures. It is neither about miraculous healing nor spectacular catharsis, but about a slow taming, a sincere cohabitation with what resides within.
In the algorithmic age, where attention to well-being is normalized, quantified, and often transformed into a duty of self-optimization, we propose another path: that of "living-with." Affects thus resists the injunctions to emotional hygiene and proposes a care policy based on solidarity, the acceptance of flaws, and the love of what still trembles.