Cindy Coutant is a visual artist based in Paris. Her films, installations and augmented readings focus on the slimy aspects of life intertwined with technology, the triumph of slobber over language, and the dumb whims of the western world to master an elusive nature.

Currently @Cité des Arts, Paris
PhD candidate (ULille/Le Fresnoy)
Complice @La HEAD - Genève

Co-founder of l4bouche
Co-editor @Excès

NOW
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. Les heures sauvages + Anarkhè-exposition @CWB Paris (FR)
. TechXploitation @Amicale du futur, Lyon (FR)
. Sounds of Earth Part. 2: Afterlife, mixtape w/ Théo Pozoga (commissioned by FRAC Corsica)
. Entretien (fr) @Trou Noir


RECENT PAST
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.15.08-27.08 Squish's HOT, Rotterdam, Netherlands (NL)
.15.10-19.03 Group show Un musée à soi, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan (FR)
.03.12 From Bellies to Tentacles (cur. La Satellite), @That’s what x said, Brussels, (BE)
.18.06-27.11 Biotopia, Le Pavillon, Namur (BE)
.27.09 More than living (Open source body festival) @Cité des arts - Paris (cur. Ewen Chardronnet & Nataša Petresin-Bachelez)
.21.07 Nina et les robots live performance @MAMCO Genève (CH)
04.06-21.07 Des voix traversées, IAC, Villeurbanne (FR)
.9-12.06 Secret Garden of Porn, Melt Festival, Ferropolis - Gräfenhainichen (DE)
.19.05-30.05 World Scraps, La Volonté93, Saint-Ouen (FR) 


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CINDY





SOUNDS OF EARTH PART. 2: AFTERLIFE 38’ mixtape w/ Théo Pozoga and AI [commissioned by FRAC Corsica], 2023

About a US supergroup sending an ultimate testimony of life on earth before the ultimate crash

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1. Opening (Carl Sagan)
2. Crackin’ the Universe (Drake)
3. My Kind Can Not Answer Me (Simba The Baby King Lion)
4. No Dick Pics Of The Wild (Nicki Minaj)
5. Life Unseen (The Little Mermaid)
6. That Black Hole Desire (Lady Gaga)
7. Future is a Butthole (Kanye West)
8. The Last Lullaby (Bugs Bunny)






Postface
Le régime parfait, Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser, Rotolux Press, 2022

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OH MON GROS BÉBÉ
performance w/ Théo Pozoga, 2022

About naming bombs “Little boy” and other hegemonic irrationalities 

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PAST
2022
@Gaîté Lyrique




EXTERMINER LES FŒTUS : AVORTEMENT, DÉSARMEMENT, SEXO-SÉMIOTIQUE DE L’EXTRATERRESTRE [l4bouche]
livre, 2022

Traduction en français + entretien + documentation de Jupiter Space + contribution de Jacopo Rasmi


PAST
2022
@That’s what x said, Brussels, (BE) From Bellies to Tentacles (cur. La Satellite)
@cité des arts - Paris Marais
JUPITER SPACE in group show 'more than living'.
@cinéma Saint Andre des arts - Paris (FR)
@librairie Petite Egypte - Paris (FR)
@librairie Tulitu - Bruxelles (BE)




EVERY TOOL IS A POEM [l4bouche w/ Claire Williams]
performance, 2022

About bringing tools and ideas into the world and taking care of these babies too

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PAST
2022
@That’s what x said, Brussels, (BE) From Bellies to Tentacles (cur. La Satellite)
@cité des arts - Paris Marais
JUPITER SPACE in group show 'more than living'. 




JUPITER SPACE [l4bouche]
2021

l4bouche translates Zoë Sofia

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PAST
2022
@cité des arts - Paris Marais
JUPITER SPACE in group show 'more than living'.
@EROSS lab., Dublin City University “Jupiter Space”: Curating Zoe Sofia’s Paradigms of Exterminism, Excrementalism and Extraterrestrialism 
2021
JUPITER SPACE - l4bouche translates Zoë Sofia collective translation, residency, exhibition & performance @Les Limbes, St Etienne




NINA ET LES ROBOTS
Film 16mm, 17’
2020

About telecommunication

Collection FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine 

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PAST
2022
@Queer Lisboa (PT)
@MAMCO Genève live performance (Genève, CH)
@Melt Festival, Secret Garden of Porn, Ferropolis - Gräfenhainichen, DE)
Brussels Porn Film Festival, Cinema Aventure (Bruxelles, BE)
Hacker Porn Film Festival, Trenta Formiche (Rome, IT)
2021
@Biennale Nova_XX Pantopie et Métastabilité, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris, FR)
@Les mains gauches (Marseille, FR)
@Sicilia Queer21 (Palerme, IT)
@Wonder/Clichy (FR)
@Wild Out, SPOT (Taipei, TW)
@PornFilmFest (Berlin, DE)
@Panorama 21: Sentinelles, Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, FR)







TÉLÉDÉSIR
Video 4K, 27’
2018

About connection

Collection MRAC-Occitanie

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NOW
Un musée à soi, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan (FR)

PAST
2022
@Nova_XX, CWB (Paris, FR)
@Korean Cultural Center (Brussels, BE)
2021
@Escape from/to:, Nýlistasafnið, (Reykjavik, IS)
@T0I700d, Les Filles du Calvaire (Paris, FR)
2019
@Unsupported Message Format, Valeria Cetraro (Paris, FR)
@Futures of Love, Les Magasins Généraux, (Pantin, FR)
@On the Edge, ArtVilnius’19, (Vilnius, LT)
@CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, DK)
@Opéra d’hiver, Wonder/Liebert (Bagnolet, FR)
2018
Panorama 20,  le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, FR)



HIGH-TECH AFFECTS & COLLAPSED FUTURE
2019-22

Practice-led doctoral research

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PAST
2022
@Gaîté Lyrique, “Affects high-tech & futur effondré”/Portfolio #3 (performance w/ Théo Pozoga, mod. Ingrid Luquet Gad) (Paris, FR) [link]
@IRCAM, Humains, trop humains. Les sémantiques et mouvements de l’après, NOVA_XX/CWB (talk w/ Pascale Barret, Carla Marand, Emilie Notéris, mod. Sarah Fdili Alaoui) (Paris, FR)
2021 FOOR, Université de Lille (Lille, FR)
2020 Mondes spatialisés, colloque international, UJM (St Etienne, FR)
2019 Cyborgs & Grammairiens, séminaire doctoral Pratique et recherche en art CEAC, ULille (Lille, FR)
2019 How not to be seen, journée d’étude sous la dir. de Simon Zara, @Syndicat Potentiel (Strasbourg, FR)




HI-DEF!
2019

About touching technologies

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PAST
2019 Panorama 21: les revenants, Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, FR)



UNDERSHOOT SERIES
2016-18

Award of distinction - Ars Electronica ’19

About being stuck in language situations

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PAST
2022
@IAC, group show ‘Des voix traversées’, cur. Anne-Lou Vicente & Raphaël Brunel
2021
Muses Algorithmique. Nouvelles perspectives narratives, Granit (Belfort, FR)
2019 Cyberarts, Ars Electronica ‘19, (Linz, AT)
2019 W.E.L.T.001–Apophenia, Gr_und, (Berlin, DE)
2018 Les passions télématiques, Prix CIC pour l’art contemporain, Mezzanine Sud, Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, FR)
2017
Crist’s Tears, talk @Ceci n’est pas un jeu, EESI (Poitiers, FR)
2017 UNDERSHOOT: we whistle and we blow, LAC&S Lavitrine, Limoges.
2016 UNDERSHOOT, données sensibles: Cristiano, Confort Moderne, (Poitiers, FR)
2016 UNDERSHOOT, données sensibles: Chelsea, Crystal Palace/Zébra3 (Bordeaux, FR) 






STREAM ME A RIVER (SERIES)
2016-2018

About fighting capitalism with your tongue and your fluids

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2018 Hypersoupe, in France électronique, Printemps de Septembre, Isdat (Toulouse, FR) 
2018 Le fluide parfait in Personne ne gagne #3, Le Wonder (Bagnolet, FR)
2017 Stream me a river in Éloge du mystère, galerie Ygrec, (Paris, FR)
2017 Less Playboy is More Cowboy, Confort Moderne (Poitiers, FR)
2017 Brouhaha, galerie du Granit (Belfort, FR)
2017 Stream me a river, LAC&S Lavitrine, Limoges.
2016 Stream me a river (v. beta) + résidence, production Rhizome @Maison de la littérature (Québec, CA)