Mathilde Walker-Billaud

curatorial projects
American Folk Art Museum - A Dance for Madalena by Ana Pi
Museum of the Moving Image - Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles
Frac des Pays de la Loire - Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane
Mondes Nouveaux Ministère de la Culture - SAULAVY by 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 - e-flux Journal - with Émilie Renard & Claire Staebler
Interview - Sloan Science & Film - with François Pain
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 & talks
Curator of  Programs - AFAM - from April 2022 to today
Curator/Guest Speaker - 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/Guest Speaker - 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

Professional Engagements 

Resident - AIR351, Cascais, Portugal, 2021   
- Guest visitor  - Residency Unlimited, 2021, Brooklyn, USA
- Guest visitor - Study Visit Programme,  2020, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
Award - 2020 BKH Curator Award (jury: Elena Filipovic, Omar Kholeif and Magnus af Petersens), Stockholm, Sweden
- Guest participant - Rubin Foundation and the National Coalition Against Censorship - “Curating Difficult Content in the Era of Social Media and Call-Out Culture” workshop, 2020, New York, USA
- Grantee - "Brooklyn Falls for France" Grant, French Embassy in the United States, 2019, New York,  USA
- Guest visitor  - Residency Unlimited, 2019, Brooklyn, USA
- Advisor  -  UnionDocs Advisor since 2014, Brooklyn, USA
- Fellow - Independent Curators International - 2015  Curatorial Intensive, New York, USA

Press

-Vanessa Desclaux ,  “ Pris dans la chair du monde. ” In AOC Media (février 2024)
Magali Lesauvage , “ Jota Mombaça dans le sillage de Gina Pane. ” In Le Quotidien de l’Art (n°2762, février 2024)
- Eva Prouteau, “ Nouveaux corps, nouvelles symbioses ” In Revue 303 (n° 179, janvier 2024)
- Philippe Szechter, “ Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane ” In Zérodeux (n° 107, janvier 2024)
- Ouest France “ Hommage à Gina Pane ‘ lanceuse d’alerte ’ avant l’heure, à Nantes et à Carquefou ” (14 déc 2023)
- Ouest France,  “ Les artistes s’inspirent de l’art corporel de Gina Pane au Frac de Carquefou et Nantes ” (6 déc. 2023)
- Ingrid Luquet-Gad, “ SAULAVY ” In Les Inrocks (21 juillet 2023)
- Andreas Engström Sorgearbete och Världen är borta, jag måste bära dig.” In opulense.se (September 24, 2020)
- Sverigesradio “När sorgen blir konst.” In P1 Kulture (September 7, 2020)
Valentina Di Liscia “A Multidisciplinary Tribute to the Archetype of the Woman Traveler.” In Hyperallergic (January 8, 2020)
Abbey Bender "Twisting the Familiar Into Uncanny Cinematic Forms.” In Hyperallergic (November 14, 2019)
Benjamin Sutton, “A Screening of Martha Rosler’s Documentary on Housing Injustice in South Africa.” In Hyperallergic  (March 21, 2017)
Mark SingerHair Fair”. In New Yorker (March 14, 2011)