Cindy Coutant
Cindy Coutant is an artist and researcher. Her work explores the desire of the living to connect with beings and things and the co-evolution between species or techno-species. Her installations, films and augmented readings seek to dismember Western technological narratives and add to them a missing imaginary in which technology reveals itself to be non-instrumental, slobbery, erotic, indeterminate, and life remains unspeakable. She is the author of a creative art doctoral thesis entitled 1984-2024: Désarmer le grand récit de la technologie. Sexo-sémiotique high-tech et grammaire du futur (co-supervised by Nathalie Delbard & Julien Prévieux, University of Lille-Le Fresnoy), which examines the semiotic and rhetorical operations at work in representations of techno-scientific progress and national security discourses, and their performative effects on the maintenance of a specific symbolic and social order. This research considers the anxiety of bodies and the indeterminacy of affects as crucial issues for capitalist industry, but also as the foundation of another technological narrative. Since 2022, Cindy Coutant has been responsible for the Bachelor [inter]action (performance, writing, digital environments) at HEAD-Geneva (HES-SO).
