Artists in residence

Akim Pasquet is a French curator, co-founder and director of the art and living space Les Limbes in St Etienne, which welcomes and accompanies individuals, collectives and artists for research and production residencies, and for exhibitions.

Interested in the circulation of affects and energies, from intimacies to ensembles. In 2018 he co-founded Carbone, a biennial of collectives and artist spaces. For each edition, scientific communities and French and international artists’ collectives take place in the city of St Etienne and deploy exhibitions, performances and events that are as many proposals that question the artistic activity, its modes of production, its communities of affection, curation, dissemination, validation, institutionalization and the effort of putting them in critique.

The next edition, planned for 2023, will particularly bring together alternative networks that question the (de)centralization of power and the economies of artist-run initiatives, in order to place their political side, their inscription in society and their commitment to a common good at the center of the debate.

PERFORMING ARTS
THEATRE

Christos Passalis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. In cinema, he participated in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, which won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.

For his performance, he was awarded with the Best Supporting Actor Award of the Hellenic Film Academy in 2010. He also took part in Syllas Tzoumerkas’ Homeland, Vardis Marinakis’ Black Field and Fiona Tan’s History’s Future. In theatre, he worked with various directors before founding the Blitz Theatre Group in 2004.

He will work on a project called ΤHE BOOK OF MYSELF, a theatrical series, which, like literature, is published in serial form or like TV series do and presents periodically its chapters.

Kaamna Patel is a visual artist and bookmaker currently based between Mumbai, Paris and some Asia Pacific cities.

Her publishing alias JOJO was launched in 2019 and is dedicated to celebrating playfulness and new perspectives through the book object.

Multilingual in her approach and working with multiple techniques, Kaamna Patel constantly questions her medium and plays on the limits of its definition.

Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer & musician. Active since 1999, his practice spans modern classical, electroacoustics, piano improvisation, experimental rock & film soundtrack.

Aural hallucination & polytemporality are the main foci of his work, creating sonic realities which open musical perception, often through intertwining bespoke electronic materials with idiosyncratic instrumental writing.

Pateras has composed 90+ works, performed throughout Europe, Australia, USA & Aotearoa. He’s released over 50 albums, and played hundreds of concerts either solo or in his numerous bands.

At the Cité he is working on new pieces for Ensemble Dedalus (FR), ONCEIM (FR) and Insub Meta Orchestra (CH), as well as new solo piano material.

Anthony lives & works in Djaara/Castlemaine.