at the STUDIO
of the CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL in Grenoble, France
APRIL 3, 2025
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
FILM: *MAMI SARGASSA* BY ANNABEL GUÉRÉDRAT, *
*, FOLLOWED BY *FLECHA*, A PERFORMANCE BY LUARA RAIO
8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
MERMAIDS FILM, OR AIDEN IN WONDERLAND MERMAIDS,
OR AIDEN IN WONDERLAND
BY KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
9:00 PM to 10:15 PM
DJ SET WITH ISMAEL CONDOII
Free
with reservation

STUDIO DU
CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL de grenoble
APRIL 3, 2025
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
FILM: *MAMI SARGASSA* BY ANNABEL GUÉRÉDRAT, *
*, FOLLOWED BY *FLECHA*, A PERFORMANCE BY LUARA RAIO
8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
MERMAIDS FILM, OR AIDEN IN WONDERLAND MERMAIDS,
OR AIDEN IN WONDERLAND
BY KARRABING FILMCOLLECTIVE
9:00 PM to 10:15 PM
DJ SET WITH ISMAEL CONDOII
Free
with reservation
The National Choreographic Center of Grenoble is hosting one of the two evenings ofthe second part of thefifth edition of the Festival des Gestes de la Recherche as part of the research unit “Artistic Hospitality and Visual Activism for a Diasporic and Post-Western Europe” at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design – Grenoble (ESAD). To mark the80th anniversary of the Liberation of Grenoble, the Festival is receiving exceptional support from the City of Grenoble.
MamiSargassa (2021), video
SinceApril 2017, Annabel Guérédrat has been making a date with herself by regularly performing burial rituals in fresh sargassum, a dangerous seaweed. Annabel is a radical ecofeminist artist, working within dark ecology. She gives birth to Mami Sargassa, a new entity through an act of witchcraft, both toxic and trashy, in order to denounce centuries of contamination and colonization of her country, Martinique.
Flecha (2017), performance
TheFLECHA performance is activated by images of animals that are prey and predator in a body-color in constant destruction and regeneration. An Ebó dance that counterattacks, summoning beings from other worlds to grow scales and teeth, nails and claws on skin. In this performance, the body is like a system that implodes and explodes into ritual and spiritual images, a transfigured human, channeling and celebrating indomitable creatures.
The Mermaids or Aiden in Wonderland (2018)
A surreal exploration of Western toxic contamination, capitalism and human and non-human life. Set in a land and seascape poisoned by capitalism where only aborigines can survive long periods in the open air, the film tells the story of a young indigenous man, Aiden, taken as a baby to take part in a medical experiment to save the white race. He is then released back into the world with his family. As he travels with his father and brother across the landscape, he is confronted with two possible futures and pasts embodied by his own history and the convenient narratives of the multinational chemical and extractive industries. The psychedelic, fragmented nature of the film reflects the insidious, creeping violence of toxicity that corrupts the psychology of those who are structurally, economically and politically displaced. As Aiden, a stranger in his own land is reinserted into existence; he becomes familiar with territorial nature and folklore - mermaids, a bee, a cockatoo - prompting pertinent questioning about whose lives and what it's all about.
Ismael Condoii, known as Condoii, is an eclectic Italian-Ecuadorian sound artist and DJ. His artistic odyssey fuses Andean and Afro-descendant sounds with futuristic electronic vibes, exploring the intersection of identity and migration. His research focuses on the musical influences of his South American origins, in particular the links between indigenous and neo-tribalist sounds. Through his art, Condoii creates a bridge between cultures, highlighting the exchanges and encounters that result from shared spaces. Condoii is not only a musician, but also a cultural agent: his shows bring together a plurality of communities who use sound to weave the emotions of a world in constant evolution.