Eric Giraudet de Boudemange

HKU MEDIA (5 years teaching in Graphic Design and Illustration departments)

DON’T CALL ME ANGEL / Artez (3 months workshop) The workshop consisted of creating an experimental procession in Arnhem, based on a science fiction point of departure: « In the far future, humans have left the Earth to live in large spaceships floating amongst the stars in faraway galaxies. In order to connect with their mother planet, the population of Queen Ariana Grande II, a spacecraft designed by the - long ago disappeared - Dutch government, creates every year a procession in a simulation of 2022 Arnhem. »

CAC BRETIGNY / Club Colombophile du Cœur (C.C.C) (1 year) This collaborative project involved a group of pigeon fanciers with 10 institutional partners of all ages (preschools, high schools, a social center, a retirement home, a disabled occupation center, etc). The workshops revolved around the art of pigeon racing through video, photography, drawing, mediation, new media techniques (like Instagram filters), and handling the racing birds.

SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS POITIERS (1 month workshop) Workshop mixing performance and a text based video game created by the students during the seminar.

SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS TOURCOING (2 weeks workshop) The workshop took the same starting point as the C.C.C. The students visited a pigeon racer’s loft, and we created sculptures, films and photographs inspired by the mysteries surrounding bird navigation.

LES CAPUCINS ART CENTER (1 week workshop) In the context of my personal exhibition at Les Capucins, Bovis à 13.000, I organized a workshop with a shaman. I planned different improvisation movement exercises and talks with participants from the village of Embrun that influenced the outcome of the exhibition, and participated in the creation of the video game She Wolves.

MAKE EINDHOVEN / 3 months (Mondriaan Fonds) Experimenting new glass techniques, silkscreen on glass and metal fusing.

KLOSTER SPEINSHART, Bavaria / 1 week Living in a Bavarian monastery for 1 week and co-creating a walking performance with composers Luke Deane and Christine Cornwell, inspired by the architecture of the place and the division of time in religious life and management.

LA VILLA DU PARC, ANNEMASSE / 2 months I developed a research on the links between the economic exploitation of water and agriculture, with local beliefs on the territory of 4 Rivières, at the foot of le Mont Blanc. My poetic idea was to bring to light a loop mixing the energetic magic fluids of parallel medicine practitioners with the physical flows of water and milk. I collaborated with water diviners, bone setters, magnetizers and farmers who apply their beliefs in their agrarian practices.

Deltaworkers, New Orleans / 3 months (Mondriaan Fonds) I shared the residency period between New Orleans and the home of a healer in the Cajun country. The result was a performance at Vermilionville, a living history museum.

KUNSTHUIS SYB, NL / 2 months I spent a month in the Dutch countryside to learn «Fieljeppen», a practice that consists of jumping over canals with a stick. That was the starting point for a series of sculptures and a performance.

SUPERDEALS, BRUSSELS, BE / 1 month I spent a month in Brussels to integrate performative elements to a folk parade in Schaerbeek.

MAVA, COTONOU, BENIN / 3 weeks Hosted by artist Meschac Gaba, I created a series of artworks resonating with his public library.

FINIS TERRAE, OUESSANT, FR / 3 weeks Research on the practice of Iro Aod on the island of Ouessant, consisting of collecting driftwood on the sea shore.

TOWNHOUSE GALLERY, CAIRO, EGYPT / 2 weeks Research on a story of Champollion, who deciphered the hieroglyphs and his notes on the novel The Last of the Mohicans.

TERRITOIRES ÉMERGENTS, CRP / Centre régional de la photographie, DOUCHY-LES-MINES, FR / 3 months I became the municipal portrait photographer of the village for 3 months.