Curriculum vitae

Adrien Sina
architect, artist, curator, dance & performance art historian

Studies & Qualifications

.  1989  European C.E.A.A. Theories of Architecture (Post-Graduate)

    . École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin, Paris

    . The Architectural Association, London

    . Facoltà di Architettura Sapienza, Università di Roma

.  1986  Government Diploma in Architecture (Architecte D.P.L.G.)

    École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin, Paris

.  1986-89  Collège International de Philosophie, Paris

.  1980-82  École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

.  1979  Baccalauréat, Mathematics and Sciences, Academy of Paris

Curatorial activities & Solo exhibitions

.  2020-23  Curator of 'FEMININE FUTURES : UKRAINE - War | Oppression | Dystopia'. Contemporary Dance + Performance & Experimental Film + Photography. Lecture & film-screening series + Exhibitions
La Biennale di Venezia – Meetings on Art, 11.06.2022 | Festival Hors Pistes – Centre Pompidou, Paris, 27.01.2023 | Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10.02.2023 | The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 17.02.2023 | Goldsmiths – University of London, 13.06.2023 | Festival Renacimiento / Renaissance – Universitat Politècnica de València, 17.11.2023. Exhibitions: Summerhall War Memorial Gallery, Edinburgh, 10.02-26.03.2023, Plovdiv, 2025.

.  2015  Curator of the exhibitions ‘Feminine Futures I/II – The Membrane of the Dream’. Part I: 26 April – 30 August, 2015. Part II: 6 September – 29 November, 2015. Museum Langmatt, Switzerland

.  2014  Curator of ‘Feminine Futures – Avant-garde female artists in the fields of performance and dance'. 20 June – 28 Septembre, 2014. The Consortium Art Centre, Dijon

.  2012-13  ‘Archaeology of Desire #2: Foucault Museum – a history of medical gaze and flesh’, solo exhibition. Victoria Golembiovskaya director of the House of The Nobleman gallery, NEO Bankside, Pavillion C, 19th Floor. Richard Rogers' tallest high tech building opposite Tate Modern main entrance, London. Private view: 9th October (Frieze week). Wednesday 10th October – Saturday 10th November 2012

.  2010  Curator of ‘Unlimited Extent - perspectives for non-standard practices’ for ‘Restock, Rethink, Reflect Two: a series of activities on Live Art and Disability’, Live Art Development Agency, London

.  2009-10  Curator of ‘Feminine Futures: Performance, War, Politics and Eroticism’. Historical exhibition and screening at The Italian Cultural Institute, PERFORMA Biennial - New York

.  2005  T1+2 Artspace, ‘Archeology of Desire’. Solo exhibition, photography & video. London

.  2000  Curator of ‘Tragédies Charnelles’ and ‘Immanences Spatiales’, Crayères (cellars) of the Château de Pommery, Reims. Video and performance event published in La Mazarine # 12 and # 13, Paris, March and June 2000

.  2000  Curator of Architectural Peregrinations  /  Urban Gestures published in Archi-Crée # 292, Paris

.  1996  Curator of ‘Fugitive Fluctuations - mutation 2’, architecture, performance, video-installation and philosophy, USA/France/Japan/Canada, Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel

.  1995  Curator of ‘Fugitive Fluctuations’, USA/France/Japon, Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris

Exhibition advisory committees

. 2021-22 ‘Elles font l’Abstraction’, Centre Pompidou + ‘Women in Abstraction’, Guggenheim Bilbao, curated by Christine Macel

.  2011  ‘Danser sa Vie’, Musée national d’art moderne - Pompidou Centre, Paris, curated by Christine Macel & Emma Lavigne

.  2009  ‘Futurism’, Tate Modern, London, curated by Didier Ottinger, Matthew Gale, Ester Coen

.  2008  ‘Traces du Sacré’, Musée national d’art moderne - Pompidou Centre, Paris, curated by Jean de Loisy & Angela Lampe

.  2006  PSi #12, Performing Rights Festival, Live Art Development Agency et Queen Mary - University of London, curated by Lois Keidan & Lois Weaver

.  2005-06  ‘Le Cercle Vicieux’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, curated by Sarah Wilson

.  2003-04  ‘Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance’, Tate Liverpool, curated by Adrian George

Publications and editorships

. 2024 Author & editor of ‘Feminine Futures 2 – Expression / Abstraction. The Membrane of Dreams. Avant-garde expressive & abstract dance through photography & experimental film’. Les Presses du réel, Dijon

.  2011  Author & editor of ‘Feminine Futures: Valentine de Saint-Point. Performance, War, Politics and Eroticism’, Les Presses du Réel, Dijon (in conjunction with ‘Danser sa Vie’, Pompidou Centre, Paris)

.  2010  Co-author of  ‘Enif Angiolini Robert. Futurista = amica di Marinetti. Attrice = fedelissima della Duse’. Adrien Sina + Barbara Ballardin. L’altra metà dell’arte, Edizioni Selene, Milano, Italy

.  2010  Artistic conception of Pierre Molinier’s monography, text by Jean-Luc Mercié, 400 pages, Les presses du réel, Dijon

.  2005  arch’it papers 00, author of ‘d(t)oxic landscapes’, Navado Press, Trieste, Italy

.  2000  Author & editor of ‘Immanences Spatiales’, La Mazarine # 13 (June), Paris

.  2000  Author & editor of ‘Tragédies Charnelles’ & ‘Fugitive Fluctuations’, La Mazarine # 12 (March), Paris

Artist’s Residencies

. 2017 ‘Artist on Vacation’, Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde - Zagreb, in Porec, Croatia

.  2011  Dora Maar House - Ménerbes, The Brown Foundation Fellows Program - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

.  2011  University College London, UCL Museums & Collection, London

.  2007  Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers et Multimédia de Bamako, Mali

.  2005  ‘Thinker in Residence’ at the Live Art Development Agency, London

.  2000  Chambre de séjour avec vue, Saignon-en-Luberon

.  1999  Antoine Depage Clinic, Brussels, Art & Medicine residency

.  1999  Yvonamor Palix Gallery & Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Oxaka & Mexico

.  1998  Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena, USA, residency exchange program with Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts  & AFAA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

.  1998  CICV - Pierre Schaeffer, Montbeliard-Belfort

.  1995  Atelier Pensée Nomade, Los Angeles, USA, artist’s residency organised by Bordeaux School of Fine Arts & AFAA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

.  1995  Villa Médicis hors les murs, New York and Tokyo, AFAA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

.  1994  Kyoto Future City Art Museum, Takashimaya. 1200 Years of the City Foundation. Kyoto

Research publications in reviews and exhibition catalogs

. 2023 ‘Valentine de Saint-Point + Auguste Rodin: Esoteric Origines of Abstraction in Dance’. COREOGRAFIAR LO INVISIBLE. Danza, arte y esoterismo en los albores del siglo XX. Irene López Arnaiz y Raquel López Fernández (eds.), Sans Soleil Ediciones, Madrid

. 2021 Women in Abstraction (Mujeres de la Abstracción), Guggenheim Bilbao, curated by Christine Macel, ‘The Pioneers of Abstraction in Dance. Loïe Fuller, Valentine de Saint-Point, Gret Palucca, Giannina Censi’, p. 56-65

. 2021 ‘Elles font l’Abstraction’, Centre Pompidou, curated by Christine Macel, ‘Les pionnières de l’abstraction dansée. Loïe Fuller, Valentine de Saint-Point, Gret Palucca, Giannina Censi’, p. 56-65

. 2018 ‘Valentine de Saint-Point : Unité d’une « Action Féminine » artistique et politique’. Valentine de Saint-Point, conference proceedings edited by Élodie Gaden and Paul-André Claudel, les Presses Universitaires de Rennes

. 2016 ‘Feminina aktioner och begärets skrift - om Valentine de Saint-Point’, edited and translated by Sinziana Ravini, Paletten Art Magazine #301, Göteborg, Sweden

. 2015 ‘Valentine de Saint-Point – The Art of Flesh, Lust & Politics’. ‘The Great Mother’ exhibition catalogue edited by Massimiliano Gioni, The Trussardi Foundation, Milan

. 2014 ‘Sexualité, biopolitique, pouvoir psychiatrique et disciplinaire. Valentine de Saint-Point et Ricciotto Canudo précurseurs de Michel Foucault’, in De l’ordre et de l’aventure: Langue, littérature, francophonie : hommage à Giovanni Dotoli, edited by d’Alain Rey, Hermann Éditeurs, Paris

. 2014 ‘Avant-gardes de la performance et de la danse du début du XXe siècle’, in ‘RE: Vers une histoire mineure des performances et des expositions’, edited by Fabien Pinaroli, it: éditions, Villeurbanne

. 2014 ‘Performative Conceptualism: Double Sense, Double Fracture, Double View’, in Double Exposures: Performance & Photography, edited by Manuel Vason. Live Art Development Agency, London

.  2011   Danser sa Vie, exhibition catalog edited by Christine Macel & Emma Lavigne. ‘Avant-gardes féminines dans le champ de la performance et de la danse’. p. 110-117. Musée national d’art moderne - Pompidou Centre, Paris

.  2010   Skené - Rivista di Musica Teatro Danza,  # 3 (January-June), ‘Loïe Fuller - Umberto Boccioni, Unique forms of continuity in space’, p. 73-90. Bary, Italy

.  2009   Skené - Rivista di Musica Teatro Danza,  # 2 (July-December). ‘Feminine Futures - Una mostra sul Futurismo feminile a New York’, p. 115-126. Bary, Italy

.  2009   Tate etc.,  # 16 (Summer), ‘Action Féminine - Valentine de Saint-Point’, pp 44-47. London

.  2008   Traces du Sacré (Traces of the Sacred), curated by Jean de Loisy, edited by Mark Alizart. ‘Cérémonies Charnelles’ p. 198-201 & ‘Cérémonies Sacrificielles’ p. 382-383. Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

.  2006   ‘Love and Democracy’, exhibition catalog, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland

.  2004   Missives, ‘L’espace qui nous sépare les uns des autres’, (The space between one and one), special issue of March, cover + 12 pages, Paris

.  2000   COIL, n° 9/10, ‘Mutant flesh ~ Clinical identity’, ‘An archaeology of clinical wastes’, ‘d(t)oxic landscapes’, ‘Social corpus, togetherness, a silent hyper-perception of urbanity’, 12 pages. Royal College of Art, London

.  2000   INTER Art Actuel, n° 77, ‘L’Accident Génétique’, dialogue avec Paul Virilio, Québec

.  2000   Resistencias, exhibition catalogue, ‘d(t)oxic landscapes’ + ‘The Genetic Accident’, dialogue with Paul Virilio, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

.  1999   Atlantica, n° 23, ‘Tissues of an urban democracy - Matrix of a planetary ethics’. ‘Amorphous transitions - cybercities, megacities, homelesscities’. ‘Virtual urbanity’. ‘d(t)oxic landscapes’, p. 24-36. Barcelona-Girona

.  1999   La Mazarine, n° 9, ‘Lien Social et Famille Humaine - Matrices d’une Éthique Planétaire’, Paris

.  1998   Libération, ‘Sina, Homo Virus’, par Annick Rivoire, Cahiers Multimédia, Paris, April 3

.  1998   La Mazarine, n° 6, ‘Héritages de la Planète, Transmission des Savoirs, Interfaçages Technologiques’

.  1998   World of Design, n° 13, ‘The Age of Interface and the Social Body’, Moscow

.  1998   Dedats n° 62-63, ‘La Urbanidad virtual’ entrevista a Paul Virilio, Valencia, Spain

.  1998   INTER Art Actuel, n° 69, ‘Paysages d(t)oxiques’, Québec

.  1997   INTER Art Actuel, n° 68, ‘Transitions Amorphes - Virtuellevilles, Mégavilles, Bidonvilles’, Québec

.  1997   Photographie 97, n° 2, ’No Picture Over There*. L.A. Down-Town’, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

.  1996   INTER Art Actuel, ‘L’Urbanité Virtuelle - l’Être-au-Monde au Temps Réel’, entretien avec Paul Virilio, Québec

.  1996   INTER Art Actuel, n° 64, ‘Fluctuations Fugitives - Symbioses Liquides’ + ‘Entretien avec Pierre Restany’, Québec

.  1995   Annual InterCommunication ‘95, ‘Liquid Symbiosis’, Tokyo

.  1994   INTER Art Actuel, n° 61, ‘Fractures, Déchirures et Disparités Contemporaines : La Ville à l’Épreuve de la Pensée d’Héraclite’, Québec

.  1994   InterCommunication, n° 9, ‘The Shape of Cities in the Future’, Tokyo

Teaching & lectureship History

.    2019    ‘The Palace of Ritual’, (Perverting the Power Vertical #8), Venice, Palazzo Donà Brusa, round table with Masha Mileeva & Michał Murawski, 10 May

.    2019    École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, ‘The Performative Mask in the history of 20th-21st Century Dance and Performance’, conference cycle, October-November

.  2018    Waseda University, Tokyo, ‘Martha Graham and the Japanese-American photographer Soichi Sunami’

.  2018    Rodin Museum, Paris, ‘Auguste Rodin, Valentine de Saint-Point, Ricciotto Canudo : le creuset théorique et charnel des avant-gardes de la danse’. Colloquium ‘Rodin: Entrez dans la danse’ organised by Hélène Pinet in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Rodin et la Danse’, conference at the Auditorium du Musée Rodin, Friday 25 May, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

.  2018    La Colonie, Kader Attia’s Agora, ‘Marc Alllégret – Ethno[cinephoto]graphy of intimacy’, lecture and round table ‘Intimidantes intimités’ initiated by Bernadette N. Saou-Dufrêne

.  2018    Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, ‘Performative Conceptualism IV’

.  2017    Courtauld Institute of Art - University of London, ‘Performative Conceptualism III’, conferences

.  2014-15  The Courtauld Institute of Art - University of London, ‘Performative Conceptualism I / II’, conferences

.  2013  University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, ‘Ethno[cinephoto]graphy of intimacy’

.  2012  École supérieure d’art et design Grenoble-Valence, ‘Feminine Futures – Performance & dance counter-archives’

.  2012  Raven Row & University College London  . ‘Feminine Futures – Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism’, workshop “Re: towards ‘minor’ histories of exhibitions and performances”.

.  2012  Darb 1718 Art & Culture Center, Cairo, ‘Feminine Futures’ workshop, ‘Mashrou3 Hagar: Art Empowers!’

.  2010  École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris-Cergy, lectures and workshop ‘Cherchons en’corps’, invited by ORLAN

.  2010  The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College, Chichester. 5th International Symposium on Surrealism

.  2010  University of Edinburgh, ‘Future Collections – Imagining Study Collections in the 21st century’, workshop curated
    by Clémentine Deliss, Future Academy & Randolph Cliff

.  2009  École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris-Cergy, performance art history lecture series, invited by ORLAN

.  2009  Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Hespérides II, ‘Performance, War, Politics & Human Rights’, lecture

.  2008  National Review of Live Art festival in Glasgow, ‘Performance, War, Politics and Human Rights’, lecture

.  2007   Tanzquartier Wien, Museumsplatz, ‘Performance, War, Politics & Human Rights’, lecture

.  2007   Art College, University of Brighton, The Monday Lecture series, performance art history lecture

.  2006   Queen Mary, University of London, PSi #12: Performing Rights, lecture & performance ‘Declaration of Human
    Hearts’ & ‘Gun Amnesty Picnic’

.  2005   Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, lecture series, ‘City Panic: Architecture, dystopia, negativity and catastrophy’ in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Panopticon. The Architecture and Theatre of the Prison’.

.  2004   École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims, lecture series and workshop

.  2004   École d’Architecture de Montpellier, ‘Performance & Space’, lecture series

.  2003  Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie Université de Paris IV - La Sorbonne, performance art history lecture series

.  2003  Courtauld Institute of Art - University of London, performance art history lecture series

.  2002  École des Beaux-Arts de Metz, ‘Amnesia: from unawareness to mnemocide’, 3rd, 4th and diploma year, lectures

.  2001-02  École des Beaux-Arts de la Réunion (Réunion  Island - Indian Ocean). Full time teacher and coordinator, ‘New Media, Performance and Visual Communication’, all years and diploma

.  2002  Faculté des Lettres & des Sciences of St Denis, La Réunion, ‘Construction of the Body, the Social Corpus and Space’

.  1999  École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, ‘Historical and contemporary dimensions of architectural theory and practice’, Design Department, workshop

.  1999  Institut d’Architecture Victor Horta, Brussels, ‘Architectural and Urban theories and experimentations’, workshop

.  1999  École d’Architecture de Montpellier, ‘Cybercities, Megacities, Slumcities’, workshop

.  1998  Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena, USA, visiting professor, Communication and New Media Department, ‘Multimedia Performance and Cross-disciplinary Fusion’

.  1998  Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), Los Angeles, USA, visiting professor, Science and Technology Department, ‘Complexity Theories’ avec Michael Dobry

.  1999  Institut d’Architecture Victor Horta, Brussels, ‘Virtual Urbanity’, workshop

.  1998  École des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, ‘Urban Performance and Cross-disciplinary Fusion’, workshop

.  1997  Le Quai, École des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, lectures and workshop ‘Performance and Cross-disciplinary Fusion’

.  1996  MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, lecture, ‘Siteless Territories’

.  1996  Le Quai, École des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, lecture, ‘Plurial Spaces, Hybrid Practices’

.  1995  École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, lecture, ‘Body and Anchorage of Civilizations on the Planet’

.  1994  Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, lecture, ‘Labyrinths, Rock Gardens and Interculturalities between Ancient Greece and Japan’

Group exhibitions as artist or architect

.    2019    ‘Democracy Pavilion’, performative urban display, Festival of Art in Public Spaces OPEN CITY / Hospitality, curated by Paweł Leszkowicz & Tomasz Kitlinski, Lublin

.    2018    ‘The Sieve of Eratosthenes & the in-between spaces of Zeno. Prime numbers & their multiples : Order, resistance to order, disorder’, Gorgona, Marinko Sudac Avantgarde Museum, Zagreb

.    2016    ‘Dinographia Britannica - A History of British Fossil Reptile Representations’, curated by Jeremy Knight, Horsham Museum

.  2010  Live @ 8. Galway, Irland  /  FOCUS - Art Basel  /  Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures), Basel

.  2009  Video-Zone, Centre for Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv, Israel  /  Lift Festival. London  /  Biennale de la photographie, Les Quartiers d’Orange. Bamako, Mali

.  2006  Love and Democracy, Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Pawel Leszkowicz. Laznia, Poland

.  2005  Redux Art Gallery, As If By Proxy. London  /  International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence

.  2003  Chambre de séjour avec vue, ‘Pills & Pearls’, Saignon-en-Luberon  /  Espace d’Art Yvonamor PALIX, ‘Longing for Springtime’ et ‘L’Enjeu du Jeu’. Paris

.  2000  Crayères du Château de Pommery, ‘Tragédies Charnelles’. Reims

.  1998  International Festival for Architecture in Video, ‘image | architettura in movimento’. Florence

. 1998  NAi, Netherlands Architecture Institute, ‘TransArchitectures’. Rotterdam, Netherlands

. 1998  Foundation for Architecture, ‘TransArchitectures’, Montréal

. 1998  Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix + FIAC, ‘Out of Portrait’, Paris

. 1998  AEDESEast Gallery, ‘TransArchitectures’. Berlin, Germany

. 1998  200m³ - Architecture & Satellites, ‘d(t)oxic_landscapes’. Montréal

. 1998  Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, ‘Hygiene’. Paris

. 1998  Arc en Rêve, Architecture Centre, ‘TransArchitectures’. Bordeaux

.  1997  Festival of Architectural Film, ‘TransArchitectures’. Florence

.  1997  3th. International Biennial Film + Architecture. Graz, Austria

.  1997  Institut Français d’Architecture, ‘TransArchitectures 02’, Cyber-Architecture and Emerging Theories. Paris

.  1997  Columbia University, ‘TransArchitectures’, New York, USA

.  1996  Contemporary Art Centre of La Ferme du Buisson, ‘Fugitive Fluctuations - mutation 2’. Noisiel

.  1996  Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, ‘Fugitive Fluctuations’, Paris

.  1996  Art 27’96, Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix. Basel, Switzerland

.  1996  IXth International Biennial of Skironio, Skironio Museum Polychronopoulos. Athenes, Greece

.  1994  Kyoto Future City Art Museum, Takashimaya. 1200 Years of the City Foundation. Kyoto

.  S.A.G.A. Espace d’Art Yvonamor PALIX, Espace Eiffel, Paris, Video installation, ‘Indoor Outsideness’, 1996

.  Espace d’Art Yvonamor PALIX, Paris, Fugitive Fluctuations, Video installation: Tissues of an Urban Democracy - Matrix of a Planetary Ethics, Nov. 1995 -Feb 1996

.  F.I.A.C. Espace d’Art Yvonamor PALIX, Espace Eiffel, Paris, ‘Berlin Fragmented Museum’, Octobre 1994

.  Kyoto Future City Art Museum, Takashimaya, Kyoto, 1200 Years of the City Foundation, Septembre 1994

Articles, Press

.  1998   Libération, ‘Sina, Homo Virus’, Annick Rivoire, Multimedia Files, Paris, Friday Avril 3

.  1998   InterCommunication, n° 24, ‘TransArchitectures 02’, Tokyo, Spring

.  1997   Archi-Crée, n° 279, ‘Organic Transitions’ in TransArchitectures ‘Towards a Trans-euclidean Space?’, Paul Virilio, ‘The Architect in the Cyberspace’, Odile Fillion, Paris, Decembre

.  Libération, ‘Cyber-symposium’, Annick Rivoire, Multimedia Files, Paris, Friday June 27, 1997

.  d’Architectures, n° 72 , ‘Through the Mutants Family’ by Odile Fillion, Paris, February 1997

.  Techniques & Architecture, n° 429, ‘Adrien Sina’ by Jean-François Pousse, Paris, January 1997

.  Technikart, n° 6 ,’Fugitive Fluctuations’ at la Ferme du Buisson, by Olivier Reneau, Paris, October 1996

.  Art Présence, n° 18 ,’Parages in Extremis’, article by Nikola Jancovic, Paris, 1996

.  Nov’Art , n° 19, ‘Art and Ethics’ - Fugitive Fluctuations, Dorothée Boulanger, Paris, February 1996

.  Shinkenchiku, n° 11, ‘Kyoto Future City Art Museum’, Tokyo, Novembre 1994

.  Scape 21, n° 7 & 8, ‘Kyoto Future City Art Museum’, Tokyo, August & December 1994

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