Cindy Coutant is an artist and researcher based in Geneva. Her work examines the material and libidinal relations of technology: its flows, its regimes of penetration, extraction. In her films, installations and augmented readings, technology reveals itself as slobbering, pornographic, cannibalistic, excremental or collapsed. Here, we meet gremlins, snails, tardigrades, Ariel the Little Mermaid or spy robots; all minor figures who speak from the margins of the techno-industrial imaginary to accelerate the break with the decaying hand and mind of civilisational patriotism.

Her thesis, entitled Disarming the Grand Narrative of Technology: High-Tech Sexo-Semiotics and the Grammar of the Future,(Désarmer le grand récit de la technologie. Sexo-sémiotique high tech et grammaire du futur) digs into the sexual unconscious of technologies. It approaches the anxiety of bodies and the indeterminacy of affects as crucial issues for capitalist industry, but also as the foundation for another technological narrative.

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+co-founder of l4bouche
+caretaker of Bachelor Drama @HEAD - Genève

NOW
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· 25.09 – 12.12.26 Magnanrama @Bétonsalon, cur. Mathilde Belouali, Paris (FR)
· 23.09 – 22.10.26
Dilating the end of times, cur. Erell Le Pape et Mina Achermann, Genève (CH)
· 25.09 – 09.03.26
Stop The Machine! @MRAC, Sérignan (FR)

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· 22.05 – 28.06.26 Fête nationale anale @3353, cur. extra.collective, Genève (CH)
· 20.02 Préface de Zéros+Uns, Sadie Plant publiée par Sans Soleil. Lancement @Dispersion avec Sadie Plant, Oriane Petteni, 04.03.26, Genève (CH)
· 20.02 – 31.05.26 Magnanrama @Villa Arson, cur. Mathilde Belouali, Nice (FR)
· 01.02 – 12.04.25 Elle empêche les choses de dormir @40mcube, Rennes (FR)
· 13.02 – 10.05.25 Elle empêche les choses de dormir @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
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. Sounds of Earth Part. 2: Afterlife, mixtape w/ Théo Pozoga (commissioned by FRAC Corsica)
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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
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EVERY TOOL IS A POEM (CHAQUE OUTIL EST UN POÈME)







Every tool is a poem (chaque outil est un poème)
Performance l4bouche + Claire Williams

l4bouche (Cindy Coutant + Estelle Benazet H.) joins Claire Williams to embody the voice of Zoë Sofia: from her writings, they reconstruct her sharp plea for an eradication of excremental births and exterminist practices of the military-industrial complex. The academic work becomes an fragmented and burning. The words slice and strike; the antennas of Claire Williams capture the electromagnetic vibrations and extraterrestrial presences for a journey through the bodies.
“Let's take a perspective
let’s name this perspective the sexo-semiotics of technology
a type of psychoanalytic ethnography concerned
with the poetics and erotics of tools
Within the sexo-semiotics of technology every tool is a poem
every tool is a poem
every tool is a poem
every tool is in itself the work of poetic operations which hollow out,
displace,
condense,
re-work,
re-present,
and over-work matter and energy
across space and time.”

“Adoptons une perspective
nommons cette perspective la sexo-sémiotique de la technologie,
un type d’ethnographie psychanalytique soucieuse
de la poétique et de l’érotique des outils.
dans la sexo-sémiotique de la technologie chaque outil est un poème,
chaque outil est un poeme
chaque outil est un poeme
chaque outil est le travail
d’opérations poétiques qui évident,
déplacent,
condensent,
re-travaillent,
re-présentent,
et éreintent la matière et l’énergie
à travers l’espace et le temps.”