Artists in residence

Born in Haiti in 1994, Jean D’Amérique is a poet, playwright and artistic director of the Transe Poétique festival in Port-au-Prince. He leads writing workshops, contributes to several literary magazines and gives public readings to give voice to his poetic texts.

He published Petite fleur du ghetto (Atelier Jeudi Soir, 2015; maelstrÖm, 2019), special mention of the René Philoctète Prize and selection for the Poetry Revelation Prize of the Société des Gens de Lettres, then Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (Cheyne, 2017), finalist for the Fetkann Prize for poetry and winner of the Vocation Poetry Prize.

In 2018, his play Avilir les ténèbres was a finalist for the RFI Théâtre Prize, and in 2019 he won Texte En Cours and the Visa pour la Création scheme from the Institut Français. It has also been the subject of several readings.

His text Cathédrale des cochons, a finalist for the 2019 RFI Théâtre Prize, was selected by the Third Bureau reading committee and was awarded the Jean Jacques Lerrant Prize at the Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre in 2020.

Jean D’Amérique offers us a reading of his text Cathédrale des cochons, published by Théâtrales, as part of Work in progress (everyday)! 

With the support of the Antoine de Galbert Foundation.

A Montreal-based sound artist, composer and improviser, active for nearly thirty years in experimental music, free jazz, noise music and sound art. His work spans performance, installation, research-creation and artistic direction. He has presented his work at numerous festivals and arts centres in Canada, Europe and elsewhere, collaborating with musicians, filmmakers and multidisciplinary artists. He has performed with Evan Parker, Martin Tétreault, Otomo Yoshihide, Robin Fox, Ilpo Väisänen, Mats Gustafsson, and others. His career has been shaped by major influences—Sun Ra, free jazz and the avant-garde. In parallel, he is an independent curator and has been programming the Sound Installations in Public Spaces section of the FIMAV for over fifteen years.

Nuno da Luz (Lisbon, 1984) is an artist and researcher whose practice circumscribes both aural and visual in the form of installations, performances and printed matter (through the publishing collective ATLAS), undulating between ecologies of noise-making and bookmaking.

Currently, he is conducting a phd-track research project in sound arts practice entitled “Echologies of Noise”, dealing with more-than-human forms of sonic worlding. In 2015, he completed the Master Program of Experimentation in Arts and Politics at Sciences Po, Paris, and co-founded COYOTE – an undisciplined collective that takes intersectionality as a method and subject, crossing experimental and conceptual forms. 

Julia da Mota is a Brazilian visual artist who lives and works in São Paulo. Born in 1988, she received a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of São Paulo and a B.Arch degree from the University of São Paulo / ENSA-Paris La Villette. Julia da Mota’s pictorial research is based on experiments in painting and printmaking. Starting from an intimate relationship with abstract minimalism and brutalism in architecture, the artist seeks in her works a phenomenological approach to the female body in relation to man-built space. Her works explore the relationships between color, form, and matter to create situations that come from her intimate experiences and her desire to build new worlds. In her research, she is particularly interested in the possible links between the notions of landscape, duality, and borders. Her practice explores the tension of limits —between exterior and interior, constructed and void; between passage and permanence, between public and intimate.

​In recent years, Da Mota has exhibited her works in cultural institutions and galleries throughout Brazil and Europe, such as Galería Fermay (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Cité internationale des Arts (Paris, France), LAMB Arts (London, United Kingdom), the Ribeirão Preto Art Museum (MARP), the Blumenau Art Museum (MAB), Casa das Artes Museum (Belém, Brazil), and Taller Zaragoza (São Paulo, Brazil). She has been continually developing her research through important artist residency programs, including Pivô Art and Research (São Paulo, 2021), foNTE (São Paulo, 2019), East London Printmakers (London, 2019), and LAMB Billingbear Arts (UK, 2018). Her works are present in collections in Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, Spain, Portugal, and France.