Siren songs

Alix Boillot (1992) creates sculptures, installations, set designs, performances and editions. What they all have in common is the quest for a certain side of our humanity – romantic, mystical, playful – which is attached to that which has no other value than the one we attach to it. In other words, it’s about gathering tangible traces of our attachment to the sacred here on earth. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, her work has been presented at the Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), Fondation Ricard (Paris), Saint Ignace church during the Nuit Blanche (Paris), Plastique Danse Flore (Versailles), Les Subs (Lyon), CND (Pantin), CNDC (Angers), Festival d’Automne (Paris) and Festival d’Avignon....

Myriam Bahaffou is a doctoral student in feminist philosophy (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Centre Universitaire de Recherches sur l’Action Publique et le Politique – CURAPP, and Unicerity of Ottawa), an ecofeminist activist, an aquaphile fascinated by echinoderms, a joyful antispeciesist and an outspoken eropolitician. Her work takes an intersectional approach to antispeciesism, focusing on the dynamics of animalisation and humanisation of racial minorities. Her book “Des Paillettes sur le compost, écoféminismes au quotidien” was published by Le passager clandestin in 2022.

Justinien Tribillon (France, 1989) is a curator, writer and editor whose work touches on different media and disciplines: social sciences, photography, architecture and history. In 2021, he presented the “Welcome to Borderland” exhibition on plant migration at the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2023, he will curate and produce “Jachères”, an exploration of urban and suburban wastelands in northern France through art, design and architecture. Justinien Tribillon holds a PhD in urban planning from the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, and is the author of a thesis on the Boulevard périphérique de Paris as a socio-technical artifact. Co-founder of Migrant Journal, a six-issue magazine exploring migration in all its forms, he now contributes as...