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.

Her practice-led research, developed in her thesis entitled Disarming the grand narrative of technology: high-tech sexo-semiotics and grammar of the future, sets up a genealogy of the minor critique of technology to actualize our relationship to future. It addresses the anxiety of bodies and the indeterminacy of affects as crucial issues for capitalist industry, but also as the foundation of another technological narrative.

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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)


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· 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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DE LA PRISE DE PAROLE SENSIBLE A LA STRATEGIE DE COMMUNICATION MEDIATIQUE EN SITUATION DE CRISE




Editorial project parallel to the residencies and exhibitions <3 (with Zebra3, Le Confort Moderne, Lavitrine), De la prise de parole sensible à la stratégie de communication médiatique en situation de crise (From sensitive speech to media communication strategy in crisis situations) consists of an iconographic set documenting the three acts from the Undershoot series (Chelsea, devoted to Chelsea Manning; Cristiano, and We whistle and we blow), as well as reproductions of texts, in particular the script of Surface de réparation, a performance reading offering a transcription of a football match in the future, performed in 2016 at the Palais de Tokyo.

The volume also features a text by Damien Airault devoted to the second part of the exhibition Undershoot, Sensitive Data: Cristiano, a digital creation project inspired by Tamagotchi that focuses on the figure of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Finally, the curator Jill Gasparina offers a more comprehensive essay on the artistic practice of Cindy Coutant, in which she particularly emphasizes the poetic aspect of her work.

Book, éd. Confort Moderne
272 pages
2017

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