If you spend time in the Brussels illustration world, perhaps you have come across her linocuts of Brussels, or maybe l’Emoustille, the newsletter she co-created. From being a journalist paid by the piece who drew in her spare time, Camille little by little became an illustrator. © les.slasheuses Slashers / roomiesĬaroline and Camille met one another on the benches of the IHECS (Institute for Higher Social Communication Studies in Brussels). So it’s not going to bring about a revolution on the web, but that figure is enough to confirm that many people recognise themselves in the SOS messages sent out by these freelancers (occasionally) in distress. Launched in October 2021, the project at present has 1,600 subscribers. Successes and failures, rash negotiations, existential questions … all so many themes which the two roomies humorously look into, each week, or thereabouts. The concept is simple: publications made up of a comic strip, on the one hand, and of a story on the other, talking about the everyday existence of two freelancers who are a little undecided and unsettled. At that point when, between two projects, they clumsily try to find a logical connection between their various occupations, are beset by latent imposture syndrome and are dreading hearing, in the middle of a procrastination crisis, the fatal question: ‘And how about you, what do you do in your life?’Īnd it is precisely this condition of being a slasher – second interpretation, by which is meant a freelancer who is always weighing things up – that Camille Toussaint, an illustrator, and Caroline Renaudière, a scriptwriter, look into with their eponymous Instagram account. It’s enough to throw any self-respecting freelancer who is a little lost into an identity crisis, even though they have been a slasher from the outset, or at some point or another in their career. Understand it more in the sense of ‘I am a consultant / jewellery designer / retraining organic market gardener’ than in the sense of ‘I need to do two jobs to pay my bills.’ The ‘slasher’ is thus a concept very rooted in the real.īecause whilst the term initially aimed to foreground people with multi-skilled profiles, often undervalued in the world of work, the notion, by way of #dreamjob and other Instagram-friendly successes, quickly veered off towards a concept which seemed to imply that when you are involved in several professional activities, you are automatically hyper fulfilled, hyper busy, hyper confident, that everything is going amazingly well, and everything always goes to plan at the first attempt. But with the difference being that the slasher emphasises the hype version of the notion. Not very innovative, you may well say, and working several jobs at the same time has always been a thing. If not, it might be of interest to you that the word simply comes from the English ‘slash’ (not to be confused with its Belgian homonym to which, however practical both might be, there is absolutely no connection), that is to say the oblique diagonal which separates the words in a list (/) and refers to a person who has several occupations on the go at the same time, and which on the face of it are not linked in any way. If that is the case, you might be familiar with the term ‘slasher.’ If you read KingKong, it is likely that you are a part of this large community of people of indeterminate status, carrying out various types of often very varied work for numerous clients, which I have called freelancers. Adopting a very opposite perspective to that of the slasher, a character involved in a number of inspirational activities, each week the project shares the wild imaginings of two freelancers on a quest to find meaning. In 2021, Camille Toussaint and Caroline Renaudière created a slightly off-the-wall Instagram account, half-written, half drawn.
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