Violaine Lochu’s work explores the voice as a vector of encounter and meta-morphosis. During long periods of immersion in specific environments, she gathers various sound and visual materials from which she creates performances, sound installations, videos and editions. Her practice is transdisciplinary, evolving in the fields of contemporary art, experimental music and sound poetry; creating bridges between contemporary and ancient, scholarly and popular universes; nourished by encounters but also by reading works belonging to the human sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis). Encounters and collaborations (with other musicians - Julien Desprez, Joëlle Léandre, Serge-Teyssot-Gay, Méryll Ampe… - choreographers, circus artists, visual artists, humanities researchers…) are at the heart of his approach.
A residence in 2024-2025
Violaine Lochu will be in residence at the Arc-en-Ciel nursery school in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, for the 2024-2025 school year. This project examines the phenomena of transmission/imitation/transformation at work in early childhood. It examines the way in which children learn by ingesting, more or less consciously, a certain number of values from the various environments that surround them (family, school, media, etc.). This project is designed to challenge the classic adult/child binary, seeking out areas of porosity and confusion. Taking place in the greater Paris suburbs or Seine-Saint-Denis, the project would highlight the cultural and social diversity of children and families.
The artist’s career
Winner of the 2018 Aware Prize and the 2017 Performance Prize at the Salon de la Jeune Création, Violaine Lochu has performed at numerous venues in France - Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, Philharmonie, Musée de la Chasse, Parade for FIAC 2017, Maison de la Poésie, Fondations Ricard, Lafayette, Fiminco (Paris), Fonds Hélène&Édouard Leclerc (Landerneau), FRAC Champagne Ardennes (Reims), FRAC Occitanie Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), FRAC MECA Nouvelle Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Festival Actoral (Marseille), Kunsthalle (Mulhouse), IAC Villeurbanne, CAC La Passerelle (Brest), Festival Midi Minuit Poésie (Nantes), Festival Poema (Nancy), etc. - and abroad - Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy), Performative Festival at MAXXI (L’Aquila, Italy), Playground Festival (Leuven, Belgium), Ars Poetica Festival (Bratislava, Slovakia), Quadrum Gallery (Lisbon, Portugal), Kunstverein (Munich, Germany), Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (Switzerland), Rickundgarden Museum (Sweden), La Musée d’art de Joliette (Canada), Le Centre (Cotonou, Benin)…
Partners
With the complicity of École maternelle Arc-en-Ciel de Montfermeil
And with the support of the Direction des services départementaux de l'éducation nationale de la Seine-Saint-Denis (DSDEN 93), the Rectorat - Académie de Créteil, the Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles d'Ile-de-France, service éducation artistique et culturelle - Ministère de la Culture.