research body
A constellation of researchers, artists, thinkers, and activists is actively involved in ce-ci. They bring their unique disciplinary and undisciplined perspectives to the project, and in return, discover new interstices that enrich their own practices. Each person works in a specific in-between space: between disciplines, languages, environments, and ways of knowing. Together, we explore the conditions that allow these interstices to emerge, aiming to radically reimagine the world with greater porosity and deeper resonance across life forms.
Pireeni Sundaralingam
Cognitive scientist and poet
She explores how mental frameworks and metaphors shape the way we think, feel, and act. Working at the crossroads of neuroscience and poetry, she focuses on transforming rigid patterns of thought. Constantly experimenting with new formats for learning and knowledge-sharing, she has been a researcher at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, and is currently poet-in-residence at the University of Oxford.
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville
Conceptual art historian, "agent d'art"
He advocates for a radical rethinking of how conceptual artworks are presented, activated, and circulated. His iconic apartment on rue Beaubourg in Paris, which he lived in from 1975 to 1992 and which stands as a symbol of a deeply embodied experiment in our relationship to art production, has been reconstructed and is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva (MAMCO).
Raul Corrêa-Smith
Architect
He works at the intersection of architectural design, spatial storytelling and desirable futures. Fascinated by architectural interstices - the overlooked passageways and gaps in urban contexts - he imagined, in the US, a series of projects around them. Raised between Rio de Janeiro and New York, he teaches architecture at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and has directed the Network of Future-Oriented Museums (FORMS).
Fernando Vasco Chironda
Musician and activist
He specializes in engaging with social interstices. Working in the space between past and present, he founded the “Committee for October 3rd”, which succeeded in establishing an annual day officially endorsed by the Italian Parliament to commemorate victims of migration. A recognized Obama Leader, he is also an accomplished musician and composer, constantly intertwining his political and musical commitments.
Amélie Joannidès
Dancer at the Paris Opera (Opéra National de Paris)
She develops an embodied practice exploring the connection between the body and self-perception. Through choreography and training workshops, she advocates for greater awareness of the information carried by the body. She collaborates with the Community Arts Network to share her approach as widely as possible.
Eric Monsinjon
Art historian and philosopher
A specialist in avant-garde and radical contemporary art, he explores how art questions reality, patterns of thought, and the way these are passed down to us. As a speaker and author on experimental contemporary art, he focuses on the development and formalization of new art forms. He teaches art history at several art schools in France and at the Comédie Française.
Roxane Vidalon
Philosophal artist
She creates spaces where ideas take on new embodied forms, including her iconic pink caravan, where she brings philosophy into rural communities. Having long pursued her artistic practice alongside her philosophical one - teaching contemporary dance before fully devoting herself to visual arts - she now leads the Institute of Philosophal and Invisual Art (IAPI).
Loli Tsan
Musician and Professor of Medieval Literature
A classical pianist, she grew up in a family of composers. Her current research focuses on Music Beyond Sound, or sonic disintegration within music. She is also a professor of medieval literature at the State University of New York. Her work explores art in relation to singularity.