As a queer métisse (Haitian, Gypsy, Kabyle, French) with a background in law, philosophy and fine arts, my transdisciplinary practice is a process of excavation and unearthing, to transform contentiousness into a zone of interweaving. Traversing through an inheritance of slaves, nomads, migrants, and colonists, to the story of my grandmother, the ‘outsider’ artist Jeanne Durand, with whom I maintained a spiritual epistolary relationship, this process explores the body as a living archive, considering it a somatic theatre that is the site of ethical-political remapping. The relationship to histories is important to this, needing as such, to unsettle the past and re-animate the institutions that are embedded and that continue to resonate in the present.
This heterogeneous legacy is the foundation of my current research project 'Techno-Tantrik Embodiment': to channel healing images through hybrid interventions, and to circulate them through the social body. Through creolisation of ancestral and emerging embodied technologies, the intention is to facilitate self-determination and self-actualisation for members of the marginalised communities I belong to, a right that has historically been denied to us.
BOARD / ADVOCACY POSITIONS
Chair of a-n Artists Council
2022-2025 The Artist Information Company
Generation Delta Champion
2022-2025 Generation Delta PGR network
AWARDS / GRANTS
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant - Techno-Tantrik Embodiment
2023 community-building and multi-dimensional performances
CHASE Climate Justice Network Grant Award - Techno-Tantrik Embodiment
2023 community-building and multi-dimensional performances
Fluxus Residency Award - Loving Fugitives, Runaway Images
2023 Van Gogh House, London
Generation Delta Goldsmiths Studentship
2022-2025 Full-time doctoral study
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant - Metamorph
2021 Collaborative 16mm film, exhibitions and community workshops
Open Doors Gallery, London, Judges Pick by Gallery 1957, Ghana - HOME
2020 Online photography competition
Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery - Christine Risley Award
2017 Contagious Hystories, for outstanding work related to textiles
RESIDENCIES
Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), London
JAN-DEC 2023 Residents Programme
Van Gogh House London
APRIL 2023 Writing Residency
We Exist, Kopple Project Hive, London
MAY 2022 Residency reuniting 28 trans and non-binary artists
Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy
APRIL 2022 Residency Program
Earth Minus Environment and Kestle Barton, Cornwall - TRUEDHA
JULY 2021 Processual and Interrelated Research Practice Residency
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
‘On Techno-Tantrik Embodiment’. Paragraph. Volume 46, Number 1
MARCH 2023 Special Issue: Paul B. Preciado: At the Limits of Theory
‘On the holographic tantrik View’. Klima, Issue 04 Worlding with the Virtual
OCT 2021 French-English bi-annual magazine composed in collaboration with Fabbula research group
‘Leap into the Earth’. Crucible x Current Obsession Paper
MARCH 2021 Munich Jewerlry Week
‘To touch the soul of others’. Artist Newsletter #2: The 1990’s
MARCH 2021
‘The Making of a Virtual Art Festival’.The Urban Wire
2020 Youth-centric e-zine based in Singapore
‘Embodying the Monster’. Multi Species Reading Group Journal, no.1 Clear Spirit
2019
‘Contagious Hystories, essay and performance work’. Blue Magazine, Issue 1 Somewhere Like Home
2017
EDUCATION
Goldsmiths College, University of London 2022-Present
MPhil/PhD Art - Thesis by Practice
Royal Drawing School 2017-2018
MA, The Drawing Year
Goldsmiths College, University of London 2014-2017
BA Fine Art (First Class Hons)
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne 2010-2013
BA Law
BA Philosophy with honours
University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) 2016
Visiting student
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) 2015
Visiting student, department of Media Art and Media Philosophy
SELECTED TRAININGS
Dhamma Sukhakāri, Suffolk, UK
OCT 2023 10 days Vipassana Meditation course (sitting)
Dhamma Dipa, Herefordshire, UK
SEPT 2022 10 days Vipassana Meditation course (sitting)
Dhamma Dipa, Herefordshire, UK
SEPT 2021 10 days Vipassana Meditation course (serving)
Dhamma Dipa, Herefordshire, UK
AUG 2019 10 days Vipassana Meditation course (sitting)
Morley College, London
APRIL 2019 Award in Peer Mentoring L1 for Women in Prison, Beth Centre
Royal Drawing School, London
SEPT 2018 - AUG 2019 Tutor Training Program
Royal Drawing School, London
DEC 2018 Equalities and Diversity Awareness Training
Royal Drawing School, London
NOV 2018 Annual Safeguarding Children Training
not/nowhere, artist workers’ cooperative, London
MAY 2018 16mm Projectionist Training
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo / Co-created shows
Van Gogh House, London - Loving Fugitives, Runaway Images
APRIL 2023
Well Projects, Margate - Metamorph
MAR 2022
Jupiter Woods, London - The Sound of Metamorph
DEC 2021
Solo Show, online exhibition - Chapter 4 Rather be your lover
JULY 2020
Constance Howard Gallery / Khôra, London - Contagious Hystories, Christine Risley Award
2017 SEPT 2017- DEC 2017
St James Hatcham Church / Leemore Centre, London - Cadavre exquis
FEB 2017
Group shows
Ugly Duck, London - Pretty Doomed
OCT 2023
Goldsmiths CCA, London - Unruly Bodies
JUNE-SEPT 2023
VSSL Studio, London - In Dedication curated by We Exist
JUNE 2022
Kopple Project Hive, London - In Dedication curated by We Exist
MAY 2022
Peckham 24, Copeland Gallery, London - One In The Body
SEPT 2021
Assembly Point, London - SUPERPOSITIONS curated by Thom Bridge
AUG 2021
Assembly Point, London - the sad eyed chameleon, volcano grey curated by Thom Bridge
JUNE 2021
Hoxton Gallery, London - Performing Dawns curated by Tom Lovelace
JAN 2021
PowerPlay biennal ‘Invisible Lines’, Singapore - The Emperor’s New Clothes
NOV 2020
Assembly Point, London - Without You My Life Would Be Boring
AUG 2020
Harlesden High Street & Underground Flower, online exhibition - EDEN
JUNE 2020
Guestprojects, London - Earwax presents Beyond the body
OCT 2019
Flatland, Hastings - We always dance here
JUNE 2019
Christies, London - Best of the Drawing Year
NOV 2018
The Horse Hospital, London - Deep Anger True love Tender Care curated by Linda Stupart
JULY 2017
The Old Police Station, London - Tandem curated by Violeta Paez
MARCH 2017
Lewisham Arthouse, London - Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear
FEB 2017
Goldsmiths College, London - New Cross Frontline: Race & Class Revisited
JAN 2017
University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) - Carapace
FEB 2016
Performances / Artists' Events
Copperfield Gallery, London - Burnt Shadow
AUG 2023
Goldsmiths CCA, London - Metamorph
JULY 2023
National Gallery, London - Bathers
JAN 2022
Sid Motion Gallery, London - Bathers
JUNE 2021
The Cockpit Theater, London - All Us Girls Have Been Dead For So Long
NOV 2020
Atelier Noua, Bodo Biennale, Norway - Mirror Mirror
Assembly Point, London - The Impossible Kiss
SEPT 2020
Assembly Point, London - Americanadas -- Corrupted pieces
NOV 2019
ICA, London - All Us Girls Have Been Dead For So Long
JULY 2019
De la Waar Pavilion, Bexhill Carnival - Smear (for Cynethryth)
V22, London - Technically illiterate, actually still pagan
JULY 2018
Poetry in Expanded Translation, London - A Lover’s Discourse
JUNE 2018
Mimosa House, London - ‘an apprenticeship in queer I believe it was’
MAY 2018
Chisenhale Dance Space, London - Facilitation Piece (for harmonious being)
OCT 2017
Camden People’s Theatre, London - Non-Binary Electro Hour
SEPT 2017
Annka Kultys Gallery, London - ‘Breathing Propositions’
MAR 2017
SELECTED TALKS / INTERVENTIONS
Artists Citizens Jury - Launch
JULY 2023 Chairing panel conversation
International Artists Association (IAA) - Humanity in Exile
FEB 2023 Lecture Performance, IAA World Symposium, Istanbul
Royal College of Art - Fuel RCA
FEB 2023 Art Talk 'Mapping A Practice' with Luisa Ulyett
Artes Mundi - Wales Venice 10 Fellowship
DEC 2021 Online Talk with Haroon Mizra
WORKSHOPS / STUDY SESSIONS
South London Gallery, London - Rights in Focus Conference
APRIL 2023 Tools of Resistance and Resilience: a somatic healing workshop
Kingston University, London - Artschool, Backwards
JUL 2022 Workshop thinking through the “white slate”
Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art, London - METAMORPH
JUN 2022 Workshop exploring the transformative qualities of consent
MMU School of Art, Manchester - The Intersectional Hydra II
MAR-JUN 2022 Series of workshops with students from A Particular Reality network
BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead - SOWING SEEDS, Gardening the Mind
DEC 2020 Study Session exploring the intersections of Tantrik cosmology and Gaian thinking
PowerPlay festival, Singapore - Manifesting Shakti
NOV 2020 Workshop on Embodying Energy through Drawing and Mindfulness
Decolonise Fest, Online - Entering Into the Serpent - Dialoguing with Kali
SEPT 2020 Workshop exploring visualisation and embodied processes
Harlesden High Street Gallery, London - TO STRETCH BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES
DEC 2019 Tantrik embodiment workshop
Set Dalston, London - TO STRETCH BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES, Clear Spirit Launch
NOV 2019 Tantrik embodiment workshop
TEACHING / MENTORING
London College of Communication, UAL, London - Associate Lecturer BA Photography
SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT
AYA Academy, Accra, Ghana - Mentor
SEPTEMBER 2021 - PRESENT
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK - Lecturer BA Fine Art & History of Art (studio practice)
OCTOBER 2021 - AUGUST 2022
Royal Academy Schools, London - Visiting Artist
MAY 2022
Ark Evelyn Grace Academy, London - Design and Technology Teaching Assistant / Technician
JANUARY 2019 - AUGUST 2021
Royal College of Art, London - Visiting Tutor
DECEMBER 2020 'Demonic Shores – Imaginaries of Indeterminacy in the Age of Logistics'
Royal Drawing School, London - Tutor on the Young Artists Program
SEPT 2018 – MARCH 2020
Women In Prison, Beth Center, London - Mentor
APRIL 2019– MARCH 2020
ArtkidsClub, South London - Tutor
SEPT 2017 - JULY 2019
Leemore Center, day center for adults with learning difficulties in Lewisham - Project Facilitator
SEPT 2016 - MARCH 2017