Nuit des Cabanes Living Tomorrow

Program

• 5:00 PM–6:00 PM

  Dance
  RUG

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  5:15 PM–6:00 PM
  Gerard & Kelly, Awa Joannais, Joseph Schiano di Lombo
  salazarsequeromedina (cabane 7L)

  Programmed in partnership with the Librairie 7L.

  RUG is an intimate duet for a dancer and a musician unfolding within a poetic and minimalist installation. Eleven music stands are scattered throughout the space, each displaying a page from Gerard & Kelly’s artist’s book and performative score of the same name. An Eileen Gray rug—created by the pioneering yet long-overlooked figure of 20th-century architecture and design—serves as the installation’s focal point. With RUG, Gerard & Kelly transform the patterns of Gray’s rug into musical and choreographic notation, conceiving design as a framework for freedom.

   

   

  Eco-Vocal Improvisation Workshop

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  5:30 PM–6:30 PM
  Laura Centemeri (resident), Silvia Liuti
  Language: Italian
  Bosco

  Listening reveals ecological processes that are constantly engaged in repairing and regenerating the conditions for life on Earth, while reconnecting us with memories of past, present, and future ways of inhabiting the world with care. Led by Laura Centemeri and Silvia Liuti, this vocal improvisation workshop draws inspiration from the Deep Listening approach developed by composer and sound artist Pauline Oliveros. Through an imaginary dialogue, participants are invited to weave together Oliveros’s work on listening and improvisation with the vocal practices of oral traditions developed by composer and musician Giovanna Marini.

• 6:00 PM–7:00 PM

  Sound Performance
  Resonant Vessels

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:00 PM–6:30 PM
  Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
  PRÌA & VELIA (cabane Aquifère)

  Curated by MATTERS.xyz (Valentin Bansac & Alice Loumeau), in collaboration with PRÌA (Antoine Gouachon, Elsa Molinard & Giacomo Monari) and VELIA (Giorgio Azzariti & Edoardo Cappella).

  In the Orange Grove Courtyard of Villa Medici, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi’s performance unfolds as a practice of resonance immersed in the pavilion’s atmosphere. The mineral structure, crossed by a system of terracotta ollas filled with water, functions not only as a cooling device but as a vibrating body: a porous surface where water, air, and heat continually interact, generating a shared sensory field. The performance invites the audience to enter this field of resonance and inhabit a mode of listening in which atmosphere is not something that surrounds us, but something we move through and co-create. Here, resonance becomes an ecological and political practice—a way of inhabiting the world grounded in relationships, sensitivity, and the capacity to be transformed by shared vibrations.

   

  Architectural Conversation

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:00 PM–6:30 PM
  Alia Bengana (fellow), Pablo Sequero Barrera
  Language: English
  salazarsequeromedina (cabane 7L)

   

  Workshop
  Eating the Climate

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  6:00 PM–6:30 PM
  Valentine Desmoulins (resident)
  Languages: French and Italian
  Carré du puits

  Eating the Climate is a dinner-performance exploring how climate change is transforming food, taste, and culinary traditions. Valentine Desmoulins invites audiences to experience the harsh realities of climate change not as abstract data but as a sensory reality. Through a succession of dishes, soundscapes, and texts, the performance stages the transition from a stable culinary system to one that has been profoundly altered.

   

  Workshop
  La Mallette de la Terre (The Earth Toolkit)

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  6:00 PM–7:00 PM
  Anna-Laura Bourguignon
  Language: French
  Educational Workshop Courtyard

  Through sensory experiments and hands-on activities, this workshop explores earth as a material and its use in traditional building practices. Participants discover the physical properties of this ancestral material, its composition, different construction techniques, and its environmental benefits. By observing, touching, and making, participants learn how raw earth can become a contemporary, local, and reversible building resource. Combining practical and scientific approaches, the workshop offers an accessible introduction to the relationships between material, architecture, and territory.

   

  Sound Performance
  Animacy or a Breath Manifest

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:30 PM–7:00 PM
  Vica Pacheco
  Flower Garden

  Programmed in partnership with Les Siestes Électroniques. 

  In Animacy or a Breath Manifest, Vica Pacheco bridges the realms of animism, ritual, and technology through an evocative sound performance. Drawing inspiration from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican whistling vessels—ceramic instruments that produce sound using air and water—the project features hydraulic ceramic sculptures that serve as both sonic and sculptural works. These pieces explore themes of breath, organicity, and the interplay between ancient and contemporary technologies. Through the use of body and breath to animate these vessels, the performance transforms into an immersive experience where breath becomes a language for reimagining connections between the body, territory, and collective memory.

   

  Conversation
  Habitabilité (Habitability)

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:30 PM–7:00 PM
  Baptiste Morizot, Laurent Neyret
  Language: French, with simultaneous interpretation into Italian
  NABA (cabane Reassembled Views)

  The world is coming apart. The rule of force seeks to sweep away treaties, rights, and principles. As attacks on the conditions that sustain life on Earth intensify, a pressing question emerges: why does environmental law—vast and sophisticated as it is—seem powerless precisely when the stakes have become existential? Law protects what it names: equality, freedom, dignity, security. Yet it has never named their primary condition—habitabilité (habitability ). Drawing on their recently published essay Liberté, dignité, habitabilité (Gallimard), Baptiste Morizot and Laurent Neyret examine these legal limitations and propose establishing habitability as a fundamental principle of law.

• 7:00 PM–8:00 PM

  Performative Guided Tour

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  7:00 PM–8:00 PM
  Giulio Giorgi
  Language: French
  Fragrance Garden

  Dance
  Motor Unit

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  7:00 PM–8:00 PM
  Sati Veyrunes
  Mermaid Garden

  Programmed in partnership with La Ménagerie de Verre.

  For her first project, Motor Unit, supported by La Ménagerie de Verre and premiered as part of Les Inaccoutumés Spring 2026, Sati Veyrunes invited choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Adrienn Hód to each transmit a solo drawn from pre-existing material from their original works. Contrary to the usual creative process, in which a choreographer initiates a project by assembling a team around a concept, Motor Unit places performance at the origin of creation: here, it is the performer who selects the choreographic material. Presented in two parts, the project successively reactivates these solos and explores the transition from one choreographic language to another. A single body thus becomes a site of circulation between two choreographic vocabularies, in a movement of transformation, continuity, and persistence.

  Workshop
  La Mallette de la Terre (The Earth Toolkit)

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  7:15 PM–8:15 PM
  Anna-Laura Bourguignon
  Language: French
  Educational Workshop Courtyard

  Through sensory experiments and hands-on activities, this workshop explores earth as a material and its use in traditional building practices. Participants discover the physical properties of this ancestral material, its composition, different construction techniques, and its environmental benefits. By observing, touching, and making, participants learn how raw earth can become a contemporary, local, and reversible building resource. Combining practical and scientific approaches, the workshop offers an accessible introduction to the relationships between material, architecture, and territory.

  Performative Reading
  Little houses on woman’s land

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  7:30 PM–8:00 PM
  Milena Charbit
  Language: French
  salazarsequeromedina (cabane 7L)

  Drawing inspiration from numerous texts recounting cabins built and inhabited by lesbians, Milena Charbit offers a new reading of narratives related to the self-construction of cabins on lesbian lands: gathering materials, songs sung during construction, invented architectural forms, tools used, doubts, challenges, and moments of joy. These modest structures provide an opportunity to reflect on the cabin as a form of lesbian refuge, relational independence, and the concept of the “minimum habitable.” Through this reinterpretation of texts that are often light, sensitive, and poetic, emerges the historical necessity of documenting and making visible these architectures, which Tee A. Corinne was already describing in the early 2000s as “forgotten by history.”

• 8:00 PM–9:00 PM

  Collective Reading
  Germinating fragments

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  8:00 PM–8:30 PM
  Mame-Fatou Niang (resident)
  Language: French
  NABA (cabane Reassembled Views)

  “Germinating Fragments” (Germer les fragments) is a collective reading imagined by Mame-Fatou Niang around Neoblast, a long choral poem begun in Clichy-sous-Bois and written between Dakar, Bahia, Marie-Galante, and Rome. Fragments of the text will be scattered throughout Reassembled Views, an installation developed by NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, around the recycling of materials from previous editions of the Festival des Cabanes. The audience will be invited to gather these fragments, read them aloud, before replanting them within the structure. “Germinating Fragments” offers a collective poetic experience around a text that approaches repair and healing as gestures that can only ever be collective.

  Workshop
  Eating the Climate

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  8:00 PM–8:30 PM
  Valentine Desmoulins (resident)
  Languages: French and Italian
  Carré du puits

  Eating the Climate is a dinner-performance exploring how climate change is transforming food, taste, and culinary traditions. Valentine Desmoulins invites audiences to experience the harsh realities of climate change not as abstract data but as a sensory reality. Through a succession of dishes, soundscapes, and texts, the performance stages the transition from a stable culinary system to one that has been profoundly altered.

  Sound Performance
  Resonant Vessels

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  8:30 PM–9:00 PM
  Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
  PRÌA & VELIA (cabane Aquifère)

  Curated by MATTERS.xyz (Valentin Bansac & Alice Loumeau), in collaboration with PRÌA (Antoine Gouachon, Elsa Molinard & Giacomo Monari) and VELIA (Giorgio Azzariti & Edoardo Cappella).

  Within the Carré des Orangers at Villa Medici, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi’s performance unfolds as a practice of resonance immersed in the pavilion’s atmosphere. The mineral plinth, traversed by a system of terracotta olla filled with water, is not merely a cooling device but a vibrating body: a porous surface where water, air, and heat continuously interact, generating a shared sensory field. The performance invites the audience to enter this resonant field, to dwell in a condition of situated listening in which atmosphere is not something that surrounds, but something one moves through and co-produces. In this space, resonance becomes an ecological and political practice: a way of inhabiting the world grounded in relation, sensitivity, and the capacity to be transformed by shared vibrations.

  Sound Performance
  Animacy or a Breath Manifest

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  8:30 PM–9:00 PM
  Vica Pacheco
  Flower Garden

  Programmed in partnership with Les Siestes Électroniques.

  In Animacy or a Breath Manifest, Vica Pacheco bridges the realms of animism, ritual, and technology through an evocative sound performance. Drawing inspiration from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican whistling vessels—ceramic instruments that produce sound using air and water—the project features hydraulic ceramic sculptures that serve as both sonic and sculptural works. These pieces explore themes of breath, organicity, and the interplay between ancient and contemporary technologies. Through the use of body and breath to animate these vessels, the performance transforms into an immersive experience where breath becomes a language for reimagining connections between the body, territory, and collective memory.

   

  Theatre
  Acqua Cheta

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  8:30 PM–9:00 PM
  Cumbre Alte Frequenze
  Cabine NABA

  Programmed in partnership with CLIMA.

  The performance is an adaptation of the podcast I fantasmi della bassa Ferrara (Ghosts of Lower Ferrara), produced in 2024 with the participation of the writers’ collective Wu Ming, historian Antonella Guarnieri, and the Museum of the Risorgimento and Resistance of Ferrara. It tells the story of Italy’s coastlines, from the large-scale land reclamation and mechanical drainage projects initiated in the nineteenth century to their present-day reconquest by the sea. The narrative is carried by the voice of the water itself, advancing along the coast under the pressure of climate change.

  The performance is accompanied by musical compositions by Luca Sortino and Marcin Pontoriero.

• 9:00 PM–10:00 PM

  Concert
  Bonnie Banane accompanied by Joseph Schiano di Lombo

  Advance booking required – ticket reservations open on June 10

  9:00 PM–9:45 PM
  Mermaid Garden

  From Muscles (2012) to NINI (2024), Bonnie Banane has sought to reconcile the most opposing realities: cold death, burning passion, and all the timid in-betweens to which few songs are dedicated. Inspired by the world around her, she cultivates an art of being enigmatic, sensual, and delightfully eccentric. Drawing deeply from life itself, her music ultimately returns to it. Trained in dramatic arts, she takes the stage somewhere between the exuberance of a clown and the dignity of professional mourners, inviting audiences to dance with uncertainty and laugh alongside darkness, creating the unexpected soundtrack to our lives. For this concert, she will be accompanied on piano by Joseph Schiano di Lombo.

• 10:00 PM–11:00 PM

  Performative Concert

  Chouf Special Performance

  10:00 PM–11:00 PM
  Chouf (resident)

• 11:00 PM–Midnight

  DJ Set

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  11:00 PM–Midnight
  Deena Abdelwahed
  Piazzale

• Long-Duration Performances & Workshops

  Family Workshop
  Build Your Cabin! – KAPLA Construction Workshop

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  5:00 PM–9:00 PM
  Children’s Garden

  Performance
  Parable for Swallowing the Sun

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:00 PM–9:00 PM
  Felipe Vasquez
  Niobids Garden

  Parable For Swallowing the Sun draws inspiration from midsummer traditions spanning pagan and Abrahamic belief systems, particularly Christianity and its long-standing presence in Italy. This long-durational performance unravels through a series of actions centered on the creation of an altar for worshiping the sun. Amidst the picturesque gardens of the Villa Medici, Vasquez surrenders to the elements within a transgressive ceremony that references imagery ranging from liturgical iconography to the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the peak of summer, the sun leads the performance as a godlike force from above, ruling every emotional and physical response through its omnipresent light. The artist transforms the Villa’s setting into sacred ground, marking the threshold between light and darkness.

  Sound Performance
  CIRCOLO (of Rising and Dissolving)

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  6:00 PM–9:00 PM
  Enrico Malatesta

  CIRCOLO takes inspiration from Tibetan singing bowls while distancing itself from their spiritual and therapeutic associations in order to explore their sonic and material qualities. Used as sound objects rather than ritual instruments, the bowls transform the acoustic environment through harmonies, tensions, dissonances, and unstable resonances. Combining percussion techniques with a minimal audio setup, Malatesta creates an immersive listening experience that reveals subtle vibrational textures and encourages heightened awareness of the surrounding sonic space.

  Sound Performance
  SALÉ: Non-Aligned Pirate Extranational Radio

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  7:00 PM–10:00 PM
  Charlie Aubry, Miguel Miceli, Alexis Puget
  Bento Architecture (Il Duomo Invertito Cabin)

  Co-programmed with the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris.

  SALÉ, conceptualised by Stéphanie Pécourt and initiated by the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris as part of the Archipel#Chaos-Monde Biennial Encounters, takes the form of an externational pirate radio: without nations, without borders, and expurgated of centralities. Conceived as a space of deterritorialised circulations, crossings, and counter-narratives, it conceives the Mediterranean as a unifying language—not through the reduction of differences into similarities, but through the affirmation of an ethics of multiplicity. The project is embodied both virtually and physically across each partner country where the radio comes to dock. At the intersection of sound, image, gesture, and technical bricolage, SALÉ seeks to bring forth vernacularized, multiple, and non-normative languages, founded on the power of their creators. Its anatomy privileges interference, accident, collage, and the collective invention of unstable forms, which here come to dock alongside the Cabane Il Duomo Invertito. Within this setting, three hours of inedit radio programming will be broadcasted on www.radiosale.fr, featuring live performances by Charlie Aubry, Miguel Miceli, Alexis Puget.

• Ongoing Until 11:00 PM

  Festival des Cabanes

  No reservation required

  The fifth edition of the Festival des Cabanes brings together six original creations at the crossroads of architecture and landscape design. The cabins are unique architectural projects conceived by six teams from diverse backgrounds and practices : Bento Architecture, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne with Mutina, Fondation Huttopia, NABA/Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, PRÌA and VELIA, and salazarsequeromedina.

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  Exhibition
  Paranoia as a Method

  No reservation required, subject to availability

  Installation by invited artist Pol Taburet.

  Paranoia as a Method presents a new body of sculptures, drawings, and large-scale paintings created during Pol Taburet’s residency at Villa Medici in March and April 2026. Populated by often hybrid figures situated between human and animal forms, Taburet’s works—frequently marked by unease and alienation—evoke transitional states between life and death. Working instinctively, he discovers forms and meanings through the act of creation itself, giving his work a diffuse spiritual dimension that feels deeply inhabited.

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• Speakers & Contributors

  Deena Abdelwahed

  Deena Abdelwahed is a Tunisian producer and DJ. After beginning her career in a jazz band and gaining experience on the Tunisian electronic music scene, she moved to France in 2016. Signed to the InFiné label, she released the EPs Klabb and Dhakar, as well as the album Khonnar, which received international critical acclaim. Her music explores the diversity of Arab sonic traditions through club culture, experimental music, and avant-garde practices. As a producer, composer, and DJ, she performs at leading international festivals and clubs around the world.

   

  Charlie Aubry, Miguel Miceli & Alexis Puget

  Charlie Aubry (b. 1990, France) is a visual artist whose practice lies at the intersection of sound, image, and electronics. Through the repurposing of objects, modified circuits, and accumulated recordings, he creates performative devices in which the boundaries between music, noise, and sculpture become blurred.

  Miguel Miceli (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist of Spanish and Italian heritage. His work explores the transformation of landscapes through the lenses of technological sublimity, the occult, and ecology. By weaving together ancestral traditions and contemporary realities, he challenges anthropocentric perspectives through speculative narratives and evolving installations.

  Alexis Puget (b. 2000) lives and works in Paris. His practice investigates the fictional, narrative, and cinematic potential of documentary material gathered through long-term research projects. From these investigations, he creates sculptures and multimedia installations while maintaining an active curatorial practice.

   

  Bonnie Banane

  Born in Brittany in 1987, singer-songwriter Bonnie Banane moves through the French musical landscape with a style entirely her own. Transcending genres, she constantly seeks to blur their boundaries.

  Drawing from R&B, chanson, and jazz, her melodies are always nourished by language and words, which function almost as incantations. With remarkable alchemical skill, she reconciles the most opposing realities: cold death, burning passion, and all the shy in-between states to which few songs are devoted.

   

  Alia Bengana

  Alia Bengana (b. 1975, Algeria) is an architect, educator, independent researcher, and author. For the past fifteen years, she has focused on natural materials, with a particular interest in raw earth and plant fibers. At Villa Medici, her residency project examines how architectural gestures can be reinvented in response to the complexity of contemporary construction methods, which are increasingly dominated by industrialized and globalized products.

   

  Anna-Laura Bourguignon

  Anna-Laura Bourguignon is a French-Mexican architect specializing in raw-earth construction. She works with 2 microns, a consultancy and training practice dedicated to earthen building materials.

  Milena Charbit

  Milena Charbit is an architect, lecturer at ENSAV, and a doctoral researcher in architecture at the LéaV laboratory, in partnership with Casa de Velázquez. An exhibition curator and author of several publications, she recently completed a research project on Lesbian Architectures, published by Shed Publishing in September 2025.

   

  Chouf

  Chouf (b. 1993, Algeria) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines literature, music, performance, and sound creation. Through poetry, spoken word, sentimental raï, and electronic music, she explores themes of exile, memory, and emancipation. She has performed at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Villa Noailles, Fondation Fiminco, Atelier Médicis, and the 2025 Venice Biennale, as well as in Geneva, Rome, Abidjan, and Berlin. As a writer, she published Vie mort vie in 2025 with Éditions Tumulte.

   

  Laura Centemeri & Silvia Liuti

  Laura Centemeri (b. 1972, Italy) is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her work focuses on environmental disasters through the lens of pragmatic sociology. At Villa Medici, her residency project explores the legacy of composer Giovanna Marini’s (1937–2024) musical research into oral peasant singing traditions.

  Silvia Liuti is an Italian musician and singer whose work focuses on oral vocal traditions.

   

  Valentine Desmoulins

  Valentine Desmoulins is a chef and resident at Villa Medici. Trained in France and Italy after an initial career in contemporary art in Paris, she develops a living cuisine in which taste, materiality, and seasonality form a sensitive language. At Villa Medici, she pursues a culinary research project focused on the future: how do we cook a terroir when climate change is reshaping it? Her work sits at the intersection of memory and anticipation, tradition and transformation, everyday cooking and speculative research.

   

  Gaia Ginevra Giorgi

  Gaia Ginevra Giorgi (born in 1992) is an Italian artist and researcher active in the fields of performing arts and sound art.

   

  Giulio Giorgi

  An agronomist, ecologist, and landscape designer, Giulio Giorgi creates unique garden-works in which ecology and aesthetics interact to offer immersive and sensory experiences that deepen our understanding of the living world. An author and educator, he published Botanique Olfactive (Olfactory Botany) with Éditions Nez in 2025.

   

  Gerard & Kelly

  For more than two decades, the artist duo Gerard & Kelly has developed a singular body of work that brings narrative, choreography, and critical inquiry into dialogue with site and architecture. Based in Paris since 2018, Brennan Gerard (born in 1978 in Ohio) and Ryan Kelly (born in 1979 in Pennsylvania) pursue a practice at the intersection of film, performance, and installation.

   

  CLIMA & Cumbre Alte Frequenze

  CLIMA is a new institution dedicated to rethinking and renewing narratives around climate and sustainability by bringing together the fields of public policy, business, culture, and media. Cumbre Alte Frequenze is an association based in Ferrara, Italy, that develops audio documentaries, participatory workshops, and theatrical productions exploring social issues, collective memory, and the tensions shaping the contemporary world.

  Enrico Malatesta

  Enrico Malatesta is an Italian artist working within experimental practices at the intersection of music, performance, and territorial exploration. His work investigates the relationships between sound, space, and movement, as well as the vitality of materials, with particular attention to surfaces, modes of listening, and the development of an ecological approach to percussive gestures.

  Baptiste Morizot

  Baptiste Morizot is a philosopher and lecturer-researcher at Aix-Marseille University. Holding both the agrégation and a doctorate in philosophy, his research focuses on the relationships between humans and the living world and is deeply informed by field-based practices. Author of around ten books, including Ways of Being Alive (Manières d’être vivant, Actes Sud, 2020), he was awarded the Jacques Lacroix Prize by the French Academy.

   

  Laurent Neyret

  Laurent Neyret is Professor of Law at Sciences Po, where he teaches the course Law in the Face of Ecological Emergency. His research has contributed to major legal developments, including the recognition of ecological damage as a legal concept and the strengthening of environmental criminal law.

   

  Mame-Fatou Niang

  Mame-Fatou Niang is Professor of French Studies and founder of the Center for Black European Studies. She is the author of French Identities (Identités Françaises, 2019), co-author of Universalism (Universalisme, 2022), and director of the documentary Mariannes Noires (2015). Her residency at Villa Medici is dedicated to completing Néoblaste, a residency journal named after the stem cells that enable certain animals and plants to regenerate damaged parts.

   

  Vica Pacheco

  Vica Pacheco (born in 1993, Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. Her practice is rooted in experimental music and composition, but she also works in visual arts through ceramics and 3D animation.

   

  Pablo Sequero

  Pablo Sequero (Madrid, 1989) is an architect and co-founder of salazarsequeromedina, an architecture collective established in 2020 whose projects span Peru, Spain, South Korea, and the United States. The collective notably designed the 7L Cabins in the gardens of Villa Medici.

  Felipe Vasquez

  Felipe Vasquez (born in Cali, Colombia) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Paris. His work explores the relationships between humans, nature, and spirituality, as well as interspecies dynamics, the ecological crisis, and the social parameters of marginalization.

   

  Sati Veyrunes

  Born in Grenoble in 1995, Sati Veyrunes is a choreographic artist based in Marseille. She regularly collaborates as a performer and dancer with artists including Oona Doherty, Nina Santes (Wet Songs, 2025), and Benjamin Kahn (Bless the Sound That Saved a Witch Like Me, selected by Aerowaves in 2024).

• Credits

  Eating the Climate

  VALENTINE DESMOULINS

  Written, directed, and cooked by Valentine Desmoulins
  Performed by Margot Ladroue
  Sound design by Ben Russel
  Text excerpts from: COPI – The Day of a Dreamer

  Motor Unit

  SATI VEYRUNES

  Concept and performance: Sati Veyrunes
  Original choreography: Adrienn Hód and Erna Ómarsdóttir
  Restaging, technical adaptation, and tour management: Marie Montfort Prédour, Lisa Marie Barry, Thibault Gambari
  Outside eye: Mathilde Roussin

  Part I

  Based on Voice of Power (2023)
  Choreography: Adrienn Hód / Hodworks
  Original co-creation and performance: Imola Kacsó
  Additional music: Ábris Gryllus – Relent I

  Part II

  Manual Melody, after IBM 1401 – A User’s Manual (2002)

  Concept, choreography, and original performance: Erna Ómarsdóttir
  Music composition: Jóhann Jóhannsson
  Orchestration: Jóhann Jóhannsson and Arnar Bjarnason
  Strings performed by the Prague City Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mario Klemens
  Recorded in Prague, September 2005

  Production Credits

  Executive production: La Ménagerie de Verre

  Co-productions:

  • CCN – Ballet National de Marseille
  • CCN – Ballet de Lorraine
  • La Maison Danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie
  • Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon
  • Le Lieu Unique – Scène Nationale de Nantes
  • CNDC Angers
  • CCN de Grenoble
  • Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles
  • OFF Foundation

  International touring (outside France, Belgium, and Switzerland): Astrid Rostaing

  Acknowledgements:
  The entire team at La Ménagerie de Verre, Christine Maupetit, Philippe Quesne, Philomène Jander, and Dora Pentchev.

  Premiered on March 12, 2026, at La Ménagerie de Verre.

  Resonant Vessels

  GAIA GINEVRA GIORGI

  Curation : MATTERS.xyz (Valentin Bansac & Alice Loumeau), in collaboration with PRÌA (Antoine Gouachon, Elsa Molinard & Giacomo Monari) and VELIA (Giorgio Azzariti & Edoardo Cappella).

  RUG

  GERARD & KELLY

  Created in collaboration with and performed by : Awa Joannais and Joseph Schiano di Lombo
  Music : Joseph Schiano di Lombo
  Sound design : Sammy Bichon
  Production : Alexandra Pugliese/Luminosa Art Production
  Coproduction : Gerard & Kelly Foundation, Librairie 7L, Orsolina28 Art Foundation, CHANEL Italie
  With the support of For Freedoms and Ménagerie de Verre as part of the Studio Lab program.
  Carpet by Eileen Gray graciously provided by ClassiCon.

  Programmed in partnership with Librairie 7L.