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Overview

  • 21 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Breton, German
  • 67, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Research in visual arts, gender and language. Recherche e...
  • academics mostly in contemporary art and photography (Par...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To think, to write theory and to turn it into pratice, to make life close to art and politics.
Penser et écrire des essais pour rapprocher la pratique de la théorie.

ABOUT ME

I'm open minded, curious, fast, enthusiastic, and vegetarian (I do eat eggs and goat cheese still).
J'ai l'esprit ouvert, je suis curieuse, rapide, enthousiaste et végétarienne (je mange encore des oeufs et du fromage de chèvre).

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in curiosity, intuition, beautiful friends.
Je crois en la curiosité, l'intuition et la beauté des amis.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Parce que j'essaie de conserver un esprit d'ouverture?
Because I try to keep an open-mind?

Interests

I am interested in language, "french theory", postmodern art, postgender studies, environmental issues (Degrowth)!
Yoga and dances from Brittany.
Je m'intéresse au langage, à la "french theory" (cf. wikipedia ;-)), à l'art postmoderne, à la question du (post)genre (masculin-féminin) et à la Décroissance économique.
Yoga et danse bretonne.

  • arts
  • postmodern art
  • photography
  • yoga
  • politics
  • gender studies

Music, Movies, and Books

Impossible d'évoquer un enrichissement continu, alors en vrac et parmi les plus connus :
Musique: Nirvana, Brigitte Fontaine, Alain Bashung, Marduk, Birds in row, Meredith Monk, Björk, Odezenne, Fauve, Les Elles, Coco Rosie, Le Manque, Erwan Keravec, Nolw enn Korbell...
Danse: Alain Platel, Régine Chopinot, Ann Teresa de Keersmaeker, Christian Rizzo, François Chaignaud, Israël Galvan...
Cirque: Johann Le Guillerm, Le Boudu...
Visual arts: Shirin Neshat, Daniel Buren, Isabelle Lévénez, Thomas Hirschhorn...
Litterature: theory : Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Ivan Illich, Elisabeth Badinter...; novels: Thomas Bernhard, Taslima Nasreen, Curzio Malaparte, Virginia Woolf...; poetry Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud ... Comics : Claire Bretécher, Manu Larcenet, Enki Bilal...
Movies: Le Festin de Babette, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Le cheval de Turin..., and filmmakers Jim Jarmusch, Lars Von Trier, Leos Carax, Peter Greenaway, Agnès Varda, Buster Keaton ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- my daughter's eyes on her first merry-go-round tour when she was 2 years'old
- a wall video piece by Isabelle Lévénez (french artist)
Les yeux de ma fille à deux ans lors de son premier tour de manège; une installation vidéo murale d'Isabelle Lévénez.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach modern and postmodern art issues, photography (argentic), english.
I'd like to practice german and brezhoneg.
Je peux enseigner les problématiques de l'art moderne et postmoderne, la photographie (argentique), l'anglais.
J'aimerais pratiquer l'allemand et le breton.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Des questionnements, une curiosité.
Inquiries and curiosity.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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