Cindy Coutant is a visual artist based in Geneva. 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.

Complice @La HEAD - Genève

Co-founder of l4bouche
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. Entretien sur l’art @Fondation Pernod Ricard
. The future is unmanned @Liveinyourhead - Genève (CH)
. Temps de Mars, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
. Sounds of Earth Part. 2: Afterlife, mixtape w/ Théo Pozoga (commissioned by FRAC Corsica)
. Entretien (fr) @Trou Noir


RECENT PAST
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· 1984-2024 : Désarmer le grand récit de la technologie. Sexo-sémiotique high tech et grammaire du futur, soutenance de thèse, 08.02.24 @Fresnoy
. Les heures sauvages + Anarkhè-exposition @CWB Paris (FR)
. TechXploitation @Amicale du futur, Lyon (FR)


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THE FUTURE IS UNMANNED
@Liveinyourhead - Genève 

us
gremlins
second-zone bodies
slimy bads
half-lives on the ‘bal·ens
= we zone in the hole

we drink motor oil
we sip gasoline
we suck garbage juice
we snack wires
our de·’rek·shen: infection

we are
the blasphemous life
un’man·ijable data
sticky smiling
squirts in the special effect

there is slime
in the future shock

untold life
in the gridded skies
silence in the noise
muted per·’for·mens
several ways to read

the future is unmanned







SLIMY BAD SMILING GIZMOS
digital painting, series of 5, 2024

About who smile in the slime






HIGH-BLAH WITH FLY (after Rockwell International, 1986)
inkjet printing mounted on wood, 841x1189 mm

About big tech buzzwords





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

> listen <

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)

2023
@Centre Wallonie Bruxelles





OH MON GROS BÉBÉ
performance w/ Théo Pozoga, 2022

About naming bombs “Little boy” and other hegemonic irrationalities 

[more]
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
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

[more]
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

[more]
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 

[more]
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

[more]
2023
@MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan (FR)
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

[more]
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

[more]
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

[more]
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

Ep1: Stream me a river
Ep2: Le fluide parfait
Ep3: Hypersoupe


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