Cindy Coutant is a visual artist and researcher based in Geneva. Her films, installations and augmented readings focus on the slimy entanglements of life and technology, the triumph of slobber over language, and the dumb whims of the Western world to master an elusive nature.

In her practice-led thesis Disarming the grand narrative of technology: high-tech sexo-semiotics and grammar of the future, she develops a genealogy of minor critiques of technology. It examines how the anxiety of bodies and the indeterminacy of affects serve capitalist industry while grounding an alternative technological narrative.

Co-founder of l4bouche
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Caretaker of Bachelor Drama @HEAD - Genève

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· 20.02 – 31.05.26 Magnanrama @Villa Arson, cur. Mathilde Belouali, Nice (FR)
· 20.02 Preface to the French translation of Sadie Plant's Zeros + Ones, published by Sans Soleil Editions. Launch @Dispersion w/ Sadie Plant, Oriane Petteni, 04.03.26, Geneva (CH)


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· 01.02 – 12.04.25 Elle empêche les choses de dormir @40mcube, Rennes (FR)
· 13.02 – 10.05.25 @Mécènes du sud, Montpellier (FR)
· 14.02 — 24.08.25 Mezzanine Sud - Prix des Amis des Abattoirs @Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse (FR)
· AIAIA Sweatshop, @Duplex, Genève (CH)
. 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
· 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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HIGH-TECH AFFECTS & COLLAPSED FUTURE



This research deciphers the unthought, untold and the insecurities on which the rhetoric of progress, the culture of science fiction and the imaginaries of the future are based, through a genealogy of the technological narrative that unfolded starting 1984 - in the neoliberal turn, the spectrum of nuclear war and the apocalyptic feeling. Examining cultural objects and apparatus generated by the mass media, this research seeks to identify the opacity of our time, which is characterized as much by an inability to grasp and articulate a present that seems to have become fungible, where nonsense and déjà-vus dominate, as it is to think of a livable future. It considers the anxiety of bodies and the indeterminacy of affects as crucial issues for the military-industrial complex, but also as the foundation of another technological narrative. 

Practice-led PhD (visual arts)
sup. by Nathalie Delbard (CEAC/UdeLille) & Julien Prévieux
2022

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