Céline Minard
Writer

Céline Minard was born in Rouen in 1969 and now lives in Paris. After studying philosophy, she turned to writing with "R.", published by Comp'Act (illus.) in 2004, and "La Manadologie", published by MF in 2005.
In addition to writing fiction, she works regularly with the visual artist Scomparo. In 2006, she wrote "Le Dernier Monde" (The Last World), a hallucinatory journey in the vein of a social anticipation novel. In 2008, Céline Minard published a new novel, "Bastard Battle", which received a special mention from the jury of the Prix Wepler Fondation La Poste.
She was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2007 and 2008. In 2014, she published "Faillir être flingué" with Rivages (Prix du livre Inter), followed in 2016 by "le Grand Jeu".

Olivier Pasquet
Composer

Olivier Pasquet is a composer, producer and visual artist. His work revolves around synesthesia, with pieces that are often generative, minimalist and maximalist, and are part of a "rationalist theory-fiction" universe. The plastic and formal importance of his work gives it a strong link with architecture, geometry and algorithmic design. Olivier Pasquet began by teaching himself to write music. After studying composition at Cambridge with Richard Hoadley, Trevor Wishart and Iannis Xenakis, he honed his skills in various popular music studios and briefly spent time at Ina-GRM.
He then turned his attention to contemporary music and the digital arts. He collaborated - mainly at Ircam for fifteen years - with numerous artists from diverse backgrounds, notably in the performing arts sector. He has worked with dance, opera, musical and contemporary theater.
His personal work takes the form of visual installations and purely electronic music, performed and sometimes danced in concert halls, galleries and clubs. Olivier Pasquet teaches interactive art and computational design at the École nationale des arts décoratifs (2006-2010) and the Théâtre national de Strasbourg (2007-2008). He was awarded the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, two residencies at Tokyo Wonder Site, Arcadi, and residencies in Chile and Taiwan. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Tokyo and Buffalo. He also works for Sony CSL and is a consultant for Ableton. As part of his artistic projects, since 2013 he has been carrying out research into non-standard music composition and architecture at the University of Huddersfield. He was awarded the Creative Art Initiative around the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright and Toshiko Mori in 2018. In addition to his artistic commissions, he is currently part of the Institute for Computer Music at Zurich University of the Arts and the European research project Flucoma.

Thierry Bédard
Stage director

Thierry Bédard has worked mainly with contemporary authors since 1989, and presents, with the Notoire association, "general public", research and intervention shows for young audiences, in the form of thematic cycles: "Pathologies verbales", on the origin of languages, then on the order of discourse; "Minima Moralia", on societal violence; "Argument du menteur", on political violence; "Éloge de l'analphabétisme"; "La Bibliothèque Censurée", in homage and support of the International Writers' Parliament, followed by a long work with Iranian author Reza Baraheni. "De l'étranger(s)", with Malagasy author Jean-Luc Raharimanana.
Then there's the "Notoire la Menace" cycle, on violence, fear, exclusion, or the reason and unreason of the contemporary world, based on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, and American activist Mike Davis. And "Un monde idéal", about global inequalities.
Thierry Bédard is currently working on a disturbing new cycle entitled "cf. Femme(s)", about violence against women...
All his shows have always been articulated with a strong musical component.