LOU MASDURAUD
www.loumasduraud.com www.masduraud-bellini.com
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LOU MASDURAUD
born in 1990, Montpellier, France lives and work in Geneva, Switzerland Boulevard Carl Vogt 7, 1205 Genève
Education 2017-2019 2012-2014 2009-2012 1996-2006
Residencies Post-grade - research residency, Post-diplome de l’ENSBA, Lyon Master’s of Fine Art, work.master, congratulations, HEAD, Geneva DNAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Conservatory, Vocals, Montpellier
Duo exhibitions with Antoine Bellini 2018 2017 2016
La Cité des Sciences, La méditation vue par la science, Paris Hard Hat, Coil interior, Geneva La Bf15, From you through them to situation From them to (..), Lyon
Selected shows ( group exhibitions & performances ) 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, Hamburg Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Brazil, Torino 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Kunsthalle Basel, New Swiss Performance Now, Basel Galerie Crèvecoeur - sous sol, Media Naranja, MN_01, Marseille ODD, Feed your friends, Buccarest Glassbox, Firewalk, Paris Galerie de l’UQAM, Motion, Montreal Titanik, Black fruit real beat, Turku, Finland Triangle France, LaborøLabor, Marseille Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Jeune création 66 , Paris Kunstmuseum Luzern, Swiss Performance Art Award, Luzern Théatre de l’Usine, PULSE big bodies, Geneva Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Live In Your Head, 6 - 4 - 2 , Geneva Le Magasin, CNAC, Performance proletarians!!! , Grenoble Palais de Tokyo, Night of the tumbler on fire, Paris Parc Saint Leger, CAC, Pas de bourrée, pas de biche, Pougues les Eaux festival .perf, Space through space, BAC, Le Commun, Geneva Centre d’Art Plastique, Au bout le sud après encore, Saint Fons Urgent Paradise, Waterproof , Lausanne Le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, Om, Paris
Awards 2016 2015
Grant from Pro Helvetia Swiss Performance Art Award ( nomination ) Kunstmuseum Luzern Grant from the City of Geneva «Aide à la création pluridisiplinaire» Grant from Loterie romande
2017-19 2016 2015 2014
Post-grade - research residency, Post Diplome de l’ENSBA, Lyon CCA Ujazdowski Castle, AIR, (supported by Pro Helvetia) Warsaw, Poland TITANIK A.I.R, ( supported by Ville de Genève ) Turku, Finland SummerLake, Art research residency, ESAAA, Annecy, France Studio of ADC, Maison des Arts du Grütli, Geneva, Switzerland Radio PICNIC, residence for creative radio, Berlin, Germany
Talks & Panel discussions 2018 2017 2014 2014
Empty shell vs. unbuilt houses (art institutions and self-organization) Forde, Genève O que significa fazer uma escola (de arte)? Parque Lage, Art school, Rio de Janeiro Symposium What’s wrong about performance art ? Corner college, Zurich Talk with Lili Reynaud Dewar, Benjamin Valenza et Axelle Stiefel, ESAD, Grenoble Conversation with Charlotte Laubard, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva
Teaching 2017-22
HEAD Geneva, work.master - Visual Art - Pedagogical assistant
Concert - selection 2003 2002 2001
Maurice Ravel, Le Grillon, soloist, Theatre Jean Vilar, Montpellier Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflöte, Soloist, Corum, Montpellier Rizurectionne, Soloist, Festival de Radio France, Corum, Montpellier Pollicino, Soloist - title role - Opéra Comédie, Montpellier
Multiples 2015
All through skin ( 30 ex. ) Production .perf, Geneva Lecture au soleil ( 25 ex. ) Risography, Edition/Production Born and Die, Paris
Publications 2018 2015 2012-13
librarioli, Numéro C pour Conapt, Publication SILO, Offset. 350 ex.,Paris Abracadabra, 6th biennale of Young art Catalog, Moscow Screamscape, Edition Clinamen, Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER, Edition Clinamen, Geneva Redaction for «artpress» magazine
From popular ways of behaving, everyday situations and objects involving different cultural fields (economic, technologic, social, media) I compose heterogenous environnements materializing intensities and engaging relations, positions and attitudes. Since 6 years, I’m working with the musician Antoine Bellini, together we practice installation, sculpture, music, text and performance as main components to build systems and situations. In the same way that I use found objects from a common cultural langage for my installation, in the composition of the music, we use and twist codes from popular musical genres engaging our listening habits both personnal and collective.
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Actives substances, 2018 Coil interior, 2017 From you through them to situation, From them through situation to you, 2016 Pulse Big Bodies, Live, 2015
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Active substances Collaboration with Antoine Bellini ongoing series of situations Active substances live > Kunsthalle Basel > feb. 2018 Active substances bar > 6th Biennale of Young Art, Moscow > june 2018 Active substances fountain > Fondatione Sandretto, Torino > sept. 2018 ( upcoming)
Launched in early 2018, «Active Substances» is a large scale project that brings together several performances and exhibitions based on the creation of critical social situations linked to a medical and physiological research on substances that affect the human organism. The formal vocabulary of these installations borrows both from everyday social situations, from pharmaceutical products and adulterated merchandise. Active substances consist of several systems engaging positions regarding our modern lifestyle and involving collective habits related to personal medicine revealing the effects of capitalism on our bodies. Natural active substances with different effects on physiology are used in the installations as a material and delivered during performances, such as St. John’s wart – a natural anti-depressant, Ginseng extracts – an energizing root, Glasses of wine – popular deinhibitor, Helichrysum – an everlasting and powerful anti-aging flower. Each presentation of the project focuses on a special social space, used as a cultural object that implies collective behaviour.
Actives substances live / 2018 / performance view / New swiss performance now / Kunsthalle Basel
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COLLECTIVE IMMORTAL INFUSION EVERLASTING Hélichrysum italicum Powerful anti-aging natural medecine Physiology & Angelina Jolie skin care & social cure Do you know that
Turritopsis nutricula medusa never dies?
wishes, chemical alteration, organism, flowers, self-confidence, owwwwwww cell regeneration, mediterranea, yoga night cream, fear, beauty - ETERNITY
Actives substances live / 2018 / performance view / New swiss performance now / Kunsthalle Basel
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1. Active substances bar, 6th Biennale of Moscow, june 2018 Active substances bar is an installation in the form of a self service bar delivering 3 substances to resist a biennale : ginseng, red wine and St john wart - anti-depressant plant. The ginseng ( energinzing shots ) are presented in small pockets sewn onto an antidepressant stained suit jacket, hanging from the bar. A small silicon gargoyle blows anti-depressant smoke around the bar. There is something in the air, we all breath it without care.
Actives substances bar / 2018 / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini / 6th Biennale of Young Art, Moscow
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Actives substances bar / 2018 / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini / 6th Biennale of Young Art, Moscow
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Active substances bar 6th Biennale of young art, Moscow
Active substances bar 6th Biennale of young art, Moscow
Worker addict dealer botanist jackets (detail) , 2018 linen jacket, small pocket in fabric handmade dyed with St. John’s wort, ginseng bulb, royal jelly bulb
Worker addict dealer botanist jackets (detail) , 2018 linen jacket, hand-sewned sleeves dipped in St. John’s wort decoction
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Coil Interior Hard Hat, Geneva Duo Exhibition with Antoine Bellini 23.03.2017 > 07.05.2017
From the everyday experiance of modern lifestyles, the accumulation of informations through differents medias, the omnipresence of electricty in our interiors and the statement that it is a collective situation, we developped a project where all thoses intensities are mixed, twisted and combined. Coil interior is a situation inbetween private and social space engaging experiances and positions regarding the intensity of our collective reality. We developed an installation compound of a HI-FI system, a sound loop, three sounds sculptures, two cabinets, chairs and a wooden bar. The sound is a 10 minutes loop played with electronic instruments, using and twisting codes of different popular musical genres. It is spread by 4 sources into the space, a regular sound system on a shelf and three sculptures, fragments of electric bodies with incrusted speakers. Thoses sculptures are shaped as buttocks in ceramic sitting on chairs around the bar. We think them as allegories of an extreme listening experiance. On walls, there is two differents cabinets, one is filled by 200 individual ginseng bulbs and the other with plastic bags full of verbena leaves. Visitors have the choice to take one of those two active substances and so, taking position regarding the intensity of his own experience.
audio link https://soundcloud.com/resonnance/coil-interior
Coil interior / 2017 / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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https://soundcloud.com/resonnance/coil-interior
Home system (heart) computer, sound amplification system, sound card, 2 speakers 10 minuts electronic sound loop Coil interior / 2017 / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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Xs to Xtreme ( Allegory ) , 2017 Serie of 3 ceramics Glazed ceramics, speakers, silicone, electric wires 40 x 45 x 30 cm Coil interior / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud and Antoine Bellini
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Ginseng cabinet, 2017
Verbena cabinet, 2017
cabinet in melamine-treated wood, 200 ginseng bulbs, chinese industrial packagings, engraved melamine-treated wood, metal spring, 95 x 60 x 20 cm Coil interior / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud and Antoine Bellini
cabinet in melamine-treated wood, lamp with a green light bulb, electric wire, metal spring, 2 ceramics bowls, plastic bags, paper bag, verbena 90 x 40 x 20 cm Coil interior / Exhibition view / Lou Masduraud and Antoine Bellini
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3. From you through them to situation, From them through situation to you Duo Exhibition with Antoine Bellini 28.01.2016 > 26.03.2016 La Bf15, Lyon
We have developed a projection-based artistic research on the daily use of electrical objects and the integration of these into our private daily lives and intimicy. Wires comes into our bed. We have chosen to avoid positioning ourselves critically before this ubiquitousness and to distance ourselves from indiscriminate use of them in order to build new, creative and significant relationships with these electronic objects and with electricity. The show is based on the phenomenon of conduction - both as an electrical phenomenon but also in its aesthetic and poetic potential. The installation takes the form of an electric flux network in ceramic electric trunking. The sound piece travel through the whole copper network before arriving to several audio bone conduction headphones. Everything is potentially conductive in the space : elements of the installation - cables - sound - sculptures - texts - and the visitor-listener permeable body, that integrate the network through audio bone conduction headphones. Various flux waving the space, electricity, sound, energy, electromagnetism, and phantasmagorism.
From you through them to situation / 2016 / Exhibition views / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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From you through them to situation / 2016 / Exhibition views / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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From you through them to situation / 2016 / Exhibition views / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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From you through them to situation / 2016 / Exhibition views / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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From you through them to situation / 2016 / Exhibition views / Lou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
4. Pulse Big bodies Sound performance with Antoine Bellini 24 - 25 - 26 septembre 2015 printed lycra, céramics, sensors, speakers, synthesizers, electronic materials 30 minutes Théatre de l’Usine, Geneva
With Romain Hervault ( musician and performer ) Florien Leduc ( light ) Thomas Köppel ( light programing ) Estelle Gaultier ( ligtning assistant ) Production Courant Continu - Co-Production Théatre de l’Usine with the financial support of the City of Geneva and La Loterie Romande PULSE big bodiesis a performance in an sensitive installation thought as a place for the co-existance of several kind of body - object, performeur, electric body, body of sound - united by sound vibrations passing through them. The performance was conceived in a way that there is no stage and no audience in the traditional sense, neither was there a play. It was a kinetic experiance about equivocal interractions, interedependance and relations between several kind of conductive presences and flows of differents intensities.
