Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves
plastic artist

Born in Athens in 1979 She lives and works in Paris. Blending sculpture, light and new technologies, Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves' work questions the process of vision and the conditioning of the gaze. Her installations call on a phenomenological knowledge of reality, emphasizing a perception of time in continuous movement. Since 2014, the artist has focused his research on astrophysical space and the study of natural light cycles. His Cosmos series evokes the limits of human perception and translates events that link us to distant space-time into audiovisual installations. After Convection stellaire (2008 - Music F. Nogray), a transformation of a star's matter over hundreds of billions of years, in her Eclipse series (2009-2012, Music K. Toeplitz), she plays on the relativity of positions between the Earth and its neighboring stars, and finally her Supernova piece (2011, Music L. Dailleau), conceived with astrophysicist Fabio Acero, presents the explosion of a star on a reduced scale. In 2012, commissioned by London City Council, she created her first laser installation, Geometry, a sculpture of motorized mirrors that projects drawings of elementary geometries onto the London skyline. Following this project, she imagines continuing this land art work in the more radical context of the Atacama Desert. In 2014, she began a collaboration with field recording musician Julie Rousse around the project in Atacama and produced the EXO project (Nuit Blanche de Paris - 2015). Since 2016, she has devoted herself to the Étalon lumière series, which reintroduces the idea of cosmic time as a standard for measuring time, a "light time" derived from celestial mechanics and distances in light-years. In 2017, she converted the EDF chimneys in the city of Le Havre into a space beacon. For 5 months, the plant's two chimneys exhaled to the rhythm of light traveling from Venus and Mars (in collaboration with Fabio Acero). His work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou - Nuit Blanche - Sortbonne Artgallery (Paris) - Maison des Arts de Créteil (Créteil) - Centquatre / Nemo Biennale (Paris) - 500 ans du Havre - La Société (Brussels) - New Art Space / Sonic Acts (Paris). New Art Space / Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) - Watermans Arts Centre (London) - ICAS (Dresden) - Luz y Vanguardias (Spain) - Elektra Festival / BIAN (Montreal) - Musée d'Art d'Aram (Goyang / KR) - OCAT (Shanghai/CH) - Day For Night (Houston).
- www.feliciedestiennedorves.com

Julie Rousse
composer

Born in 1979, lives and works in Paris. A sound artist, improviser and electroacoustic composer, Julie Rousse is a passionate phonographer, always on the lookout for new fieldrecordings, exploring different forms of sound capture with different machines, in chosen and particular contexts - urban, natural or industrial. In a practice of free improvisation, she uses this sound collection with the help of a digital sound processing platform in real time, delving into raw material - intruding into sound detail - in search of textures and rhythms to create poetic universes. More recently, she has focused her work on the physical and corporeal dimension of the electronic musician, seeking to extend her playground into performance. Her work in electroacoustic composition, inspired by her studies in scenography, seeks a relationship between the listener, space and dream. Creating swarming, immersive universes, Julie Rousse delivers utterly personal pieces born of in-situ work, from sounds recorded for a specific project, translating through sound her sensitive impressions - to be deployed in a specific place and/or at a precise moment. Since 2001, she has performed in numerous venues, festivals and events, in solo sound performances or in collaboration with artists from the international experimental scene. Her work has been presented at Suoni per il Popolo (Montreal, Canada; 2002, 2004), Nuit Blanche (Paris; 2005, 2011, 2015), Send and Receive (Winnipeg, canada; 2011), Le Fest (Tunis, Tunisia; 2011), Flussi (Naples, 2013), Tsonami (Valparaiso, Chile; 2013, 2015), Centre Pompidou (Paris; 2017), Musée de l'Homme (Paris, 2017), among others. Her pieces have been published on the Sub Rosa, TsukuBoshi, Zeromoon and NoType labels and broadcast on Arte radio, France Culture and Radio Libertaire. Winner of the Hors les Murs grant from the Institut Français in 2015, she completed a research residency in an indigenous community in southern Chile.
- http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr