Residents – 2023

_{Anna Neisvestnova}

Based in France.

Anna Neizvestinova is a book artist by education. She produces experimental visual art projects with representation of local social memory. During her stay she worked on the ‘Shadow Party’ project.

More info here.

Yelena Kholodova

Based in Moscou. Yelena Kholodova is an interdisciplinary artist, performance researcher and psychologist.

She is interested in the everyday life’s performance, the creation of utopias and the dream about a totally inclusive future. She appeals to ancient and contemporary bodymind practices, works with communities, documentary materials and rituals.

_{Sarai Devi Dasi}

Based in California.

Sarai is an artist, photographer, film maker, and writer. Broadly, her work focuses on human emotions and lived experiences. She is currently exploring these concepts as they relate to the feminine experience in the world at large.

Kevin Andrew Heslop

Writer, filmmaker and film producer.

Living in Montréal, Canada.

More info here.

_{Louisa Yousfi}

Author.

Author of an important essay entitled Rester Barbare (“Remaining Barbarian”), which reflects on the weight of a culture that cannot and does not necessarily want to assimilate.

_Sam _Alekssandra

Writer, journalist, visual artist.

_{Cameron Evans}

Visual artist, architect based in Australia.

Relinquishing ideals of the every day, and appropriating in his own sense, Cam has developed a stylistic sense which draws in the viewer and transports them to a space of interpretation.

_{Isabella Hindman}

Architect and mixed media artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane in Australia. Her practice in sculpture and painting explore the themes of consumerism, decay/renewal and utopia. Her primary sculptural work is for the public realm to provoke and explore the tensions that exist in the human/nature relationship. Her utopic paintings ensue as dream-like visions of a more hopeful future.

^{Valérie Marin La Meslée}

literary journalist in the culture department of Le Point and a contributor to Le Point Afrique. The Afro-Caribbean cultural worlds are the favorite fields. She published “Chérir Port-au-Prince” and “November in Bamako” (with photos by Christine Fleurent). She is also the author of “Confidences de gargouille” with Béatrix Beck, and of “Stupeur dans la civilisation” with Jean-Pierre Winter.

OUTCAST

Five dancers and performers stage their journey as LGBTIQ+ activists in Tunisia and then in Europe. We follow the heartbreak of these refugee and immigrant artists who are both nostalgic for their country of origin and undergoing a certain racialization in Europe, while having the means to experiment with a liberated identity. The show is a eulogy to collective struggle.

Art directors : Chakib Zidi and Mohamed Ali Aguerbi

Choreographer: Chakib Zidi

Performers : Noura Abedlhafidh, Mohamed Issaoui, Chakib Zidi and Shayma Al Queer

Sound and Light designer: Mohamed Ali Aguerbi

Illustration : Noura Abedlhafidh

For more informations, the artists’biographies and the dates, see the press file here

With the support of the DRAC nouvelle Aquitaine. The French ambassy in Malta and the Malta Arts Council.

Eva Doumbia

Since 2019, her company has occupied the Théâtre des Bains Douches in Elbeuf, a multicultural working-class community and since 2022 she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, alongside including Virginie Despentes and Armel Roussel. She creates her own texts or those of Edward Bond, Alfred de Musset, Peter Turrini, Lars Noren or Bertolt Brecht. A Text discoverer, she edits Kouam Tawa, Dieudonné Niangouna, Aristide Tarnagda or Léonora Miano. She adapts the novels of Chester Himes, Maryse Condé, Yanick Lahens, Fabienne Kanor, Jamaica Kincaid.