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Mathilde Walker-Billaud

curatorial projects
Frac des Pays de la Loire - Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane
 Mondes Nouveaux Ministère de la Culture - SAULAVY de  Laurent-David Garnier
Centre Pompidou - Jeanne Duval & Maud Sulter
Bonniers Konsthall - The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You
Triangle/UnionDocs - Women In Public
Flaherty NYC - Surface Knowledge
UnionDocs - What You Get Is What You See
CCS BARD  - this is the no thing that we are

writing
Interview - Movement Research Performance Journal (LABOR Issue 57) - with  Lina Lapelytė
Exhibition text - Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim - Krista Belle Stewart
 Installation  text - FIAF / Wexner Center for the Arts -Nora Chipaumire’s AfterNow
Exhibition review  - ART PAPERS - The Chimurenga Library
Essay - ART PAPERS - Disappearing into Motherhood
Essay - ART PAPERS -  Inaudibility (Krista Belle Stewart)
Program text  - Cinema Island Film Festival - Can We Listen?
Artist’s  publication - collective INFRABLEU - Sortie de Terrain
Interview - BOMB Magazine - with  Courtney Stephens
Interview - ART PAPERS - with Nora Chipaumire
Interview - BOMB Magazine - with Julianne Swartz
Audio documentary - Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything / Kohler Arts Center - Concrete and Respect 
Audio documentary -  Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything - Art de vivre I & II
Artist’s publication - Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis - Le Corps à l’Écriture
programs
Curator of  Programs - AFAM - from April 2022 to today
Curator/Host - Bienvenu Steinberg & J – A Tender Manifesto w/ Julianne Swartz
 Moderator - UnionDocs - Active Visions with Emilija Škarnulytė
Curator/Host - UnionDocs – We Will Cut You 
 Guest speaker - CCS BARD - Curating Public Programs
Guest speaker-  Academy of Fine Arts, Austria - Listening and Hydro-Feminism  
Moderator - MoMA Doc Fortnight 2022 -  Peter Kerekes
 Guest speaker - AIR351 - Voicescapes  
Curator/Host - Cinema Island Film Festival - Audio Postcards
Curator/Host - Bonniers Konsthall - Windless Path with Synnøve Persen
Guest speaker - Bonniers Konsthall -  Poetics and Politics of Recorded Voices 
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Travel Documentaries
Curator/Host - Anthology Film Archives - Ellie Ga & Felipe Meres
Curator/Host - Maryam Tafakori - Colgate University
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - The Podcast School
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Voice in Documentary Art
Host - UnionDocs - Mothering Everyday with Irene Lusztig
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Feminist Filmmaking
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Speculation in the archives
Guest speaker - FIAF - Benoît Forgeard ‘s Gas de France
Curator/Host -  UnionDocs - Ocean of Lies with Benjamen Walker, Alexandra Juhasz & Carol Squiers
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Short Forms
Moderator -  NeueHouse - lecture-perfornance with Nora Chipaumire
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Sound Walks
Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Film and Media Curatorial Practice
 Co-curator/host - UnionDocs - Socially Engaged Documentary Art
other  (residencies /  award / press) 
Mark

Jeanne Duval, figure spectrale dans un paysage français


Multidisciplinary program
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Festival EXTRA ! - Baudelaire Poetry Day
September 18, 2021
Artists: Euridice Zaituna Kala, Salomon Metila, Louna Philip,  Sara Valeri,  Marie-France Alvarez & Gaëlle Malandrone, Robin Mitchell, Emilie Notéris (Alma matériau, 2020, Ja’ Tovia Gary and Sonia Charbonneau.
In partnership with Maud Sulter Estate. Translation by Sika Fakambi. 





A dialogic and process-based program investigating the disappearance of Jeanne Duval (Charles Baudelaire’s muse and life companion) from  the French cultural landscape. 

The program included:
- Performance: Toetra: D’après le Texte Je suis L’Archive by Euridice Zaituna Kala with  Salomon Metila, Louna Philip and Sara Valeri.
- Poetry readings by Marie-France Alvarez & Gaëlle Malandrone
- Talks by  Robin Mitchell (Venus Noire. Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France, 2020) & Emilie Notéris (Alma matériau, 2020)
- A Screening with videos Giverny I (Négresse Impériale) (2017) by Ja’ Tovia Gary and La belle créole (2016) by Sonia Charbonneau.


Audio Archives
Performance Documentation
Handout
Mark