ABOUT
CONTACT







thinks of art as a relational tool meant for someone else.
offers ideation and production of artistic experiences.
focuses on live art—set in real time and real space.
proposes an audience-driven approach fostering connection and sharing.
operates collaboratively, transdisciplinary and site-specifically.            
supports creation and implements ethical and sustainable methods.
cares for how things are made and whom they are made for.
LOVE HURTS
(BUT WE’RE HERE)

@ Touki Bouki, Paris (FR)
14.02.2025Love Hurts (but we’re here) revisits the format of a Speed Dating to offer unexpected encounters for all kinds of loves through a playful setting staged in collaboration with artists. Allong short rounds of 5 to 10 minutes, each paired with the chapters of a menu designed by an invited chef, guests are seamlessly enrolled in the dance, multiplying ways of meeting and interacting through the vehicle of a shared experience. 

Host: Pauline Rousseau
Chef: Monika Varšavskaja & Touki Bouki
Soundscape: Katu
Kissing vessels: HC, executed by Desire//Disaster
Playlist: Fetva
IDEATION & PRODUCTION
Experience design
Live art
Culinary art
Sound design
Creative production
Photo Jules Arnaud

ABDULLAH MINIAWY
PPL SONGS AGHANI AL-KHALQ
أغاني الخلق
2025-ongoingAccompanying award-winning artist Abdullah Miniawy and his project
PPL Songs Aghani Al-Khalq أغاني الخلق , an extended music label and platform supporting the work of cross-genre artists and producing live-events and forging a community aimed at reshaping the way music reaches people. 

COLLABORATION
Creative production
Advising
Adventurous music
Live art

Photo Benjamin Carrot

BURCKHARDT SUISSE ROMANDE
20 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE

@ Collège Rousseau, Geneva (CH)

04.07.2024Artistic activation of the freshly renovated Collège Rousseau (Alain Ritter, 1969) for 250 guests in celebration of Burckhardt’s anniversary presence in Swiss Romandie. 

Culinary art: Grace Gloria Denis
Light design: Kasper Raidam
Soundscapes: Grace Gloria Denis, Katu
DJ set (vinyl): J/G (OMA)

Video
IDEATION & PRODUCTION
Experience design
Live art
Culinary art
Light design
Sound design
Creative production
Video Mathys Nouspikel
Photo Pineapple Studios

ASTRIT ISMAILI
THE FIRST FLOWER

@ Berlin (DE), Paris (FR), Amsterdam (NL), Prishtina (XK)

2021-2024

Executive production and project management of Astrit Ismaili’s experimental pop music album The First Flower and eponymous concert-performance.

Music production: Europa, Katu, Lotic, Nömak,
Obsequeen, Colin Self, Sinmaldita
Featurings: Mykki Blanco, Colin Self
Artwork: Ville Vidoe
Performance scenography:Touche-touche
Performance light design: Veslemoy Holseter,
Jacqueline Sobiszewski
PR: Modern Matters
Executive Producer: Lily Matras
Produced by The Performance Agency


Funded by the Upstream: Music X Design grant scheme of the Creative Industries Fund NL
Supported by KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin,
Sophiensaele Berlin, Kemmler Foundation
PRODUCTION
Transdisciplinarity
Adventurous music
Performance art
Creative industries
Creative production
Funding


Album Artwork Ville Vidoe
Graphic design Zgjim Elshani


THINKING BODIES
w. ANDREA PETIT-FRIEDRICH

@Sciences Po, Paris Institute for Political Studies, French-German European undergraduate college in Nancy (FR)

2019-ongoingConception and teaching of a theory and practice-based seminar on performance art, somatic practices and questions of their politicality. In Denkende Körper/Corps Pensants, B.A. Students of Social Sciences are brought to approach their body as a thinking agent, forger of knowledge, consciousness and utopia, and therefore a tool to asses one’s relationship to the world. Final examination is a performance in public space, individually or in small groups. 
IDEATION & TRANSMISSON
Education
Performance art
Social sciences
Somatic practices
Body politics
Theory

Photo Andréa Petit-Friedrich


END OF STUDIES JURY
M.A. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES & COMMUNICATION

@Sup de Pub, School for Communication, Paris (FR)

28.08.24
13.08.24
External jury to evaluate creative industries business plan pitches as final examination for M.A. Students of Sup de Pub School for Communication. 

TRANSMISSON
Education
Creative industries
Business 



PUBLICATIONS

 Looping In (EN), co-written with Yael Salomonowitz for the monograph of Esben Weile Kjaer People are the Ultimate Spectacle, Creator Projects, Copenhagen, 2021

Morceaux Choisis (FR, EN), 28 texts on 28 exhibitions for the eponymous monograph of Saâdane Afif, Bom Dia Books, Berlin, 2021

Lovely Rita (EN), pop song on Saâdane Afif's work The Pirate’s Who’s Who, presented in the exhibition The Dream of the Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen

Tarantella (again) (EN), publication accompanying the performance of Augustin Maurs, Aperto Raum, Berlin, 2018

French translation of Schocköse – Sound Dances by Valeska Gert: Feminist Practices and Female Voices in the Culture and Politics of the 1920s, Luise Meier, publication accompanying the performance Störlaut by Jule Flierl premiered at Sophiensäele Berlin, 2018

The Geopoetics of Fayçal Baghriche, essay on the work Elective Purification by Fayçal Baghriche, 2004
CONTRIBUTION
Writing
Performance art
Somatic practices
Body politics
Theory 


Offered by Lily Matras