CCN Grenoble

JAN FEDINGER

VISUAL ARTIST AND LIGHTING DESIGNER

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Highlighting the various trades involved in the creation of choreographic gesture is a key aspect of Aina Alegre and Yannick Hugron's project for the Centre chorégraphique national. In 2025 and 2026, they have chosen to support Jan Fedinger, visual artist and lighting designer, to underline the collective dynamic that underpins all artistic creation.

Jan Fedinger is originally from Germany. He works in a variety of media, with light as his principal medium. His work includes performance installations, lighting creations for the stage, performances, photographs and drawings.

Jan Fedinger's work has been presented in Europe and elsewhere in the context of theater and visual art. His artistic approach is characterized by the search for and creation of territories and experiences never before known, but always already dreamed of.

Alongside his personal work, he has collaborated with artists such as Aina Alegre, Jan Martens, Jefta van Dinther, Daniel Linehan, Aitana Cordero, Thiago Granato and Alban Richard.

Jan is co-founder of Reflecting Light, a research group of international light designers that aims to formulate and map the growing role of light in the performing arts. Since 2021, this research has been integrated into KASK, the Royal School of the Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

His work land[e]scapes 4 - redistribution of wealth by nature [working title] is currently on tour, as are his visual creations for Jan Martens' Any Attempt Will End in Crushed Bodies and Shattered Bones, R-A-U-X-A, THIS IS NOT (AN ACT OF LOVE & RESISTANCE) and Aina Alegre's RÉVERBÉRATIONS- ÉTUDE 8.

Jan Fedinger is associate artist at the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (2025-2026).

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CORRESPON-
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RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE

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JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024

WITH THE ARTISTS: Ruth Childs, Katerina Andreou, Bryan Campbell, Luara Raio
SUPPORT: CCN de Grenoble, Pavillon/ADC, in progress

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RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE

FROM JANUARY 2024 TO DECEMBER 2025

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JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024

On arriving for her residency in the CCN Grenoble studio, facing the mountains, Ruth Childs found herself thinking about the artists who had passed through this place before her and would do so after her. She knew some of them very well, others a little less, by name or by sight, others not at all. She was struck by the lack of connection between them. She wanted to leave a note of encouragement, a surprise, check in, ask a question about something she'd picked up from their work. But due to lack of time, caught up in her own work, her thoughts simply materialized in the form of "likes" via social networks, a Facebook or Instagram page.

To combat this lack of exchange, symptomatic of the current era, she drew inspiration from the free, intimate, handwritten correspondences of Judson Church members (Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs...) to imagine a space-time for correspondence with a small group of artists. A space-time to exchange ideas, ask questions, get lost together, have fun, tell each other details of their artistic questionings and troubles. These exchanges can be short and spontaneous (like a postcard) or more polished (like a letter), but will preferably be handwritten and sent by post.

The primary aim of this project is to open up and share the experience of a genuine long-term exchange. In a second phase, and in agreement with the group, we could consider publishing some or all of the correspondence produced in 2026.

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