The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Virginie Bobin operates across research, curatorial and editorial practices, writing, pedagogy and translation, with a particular interest in performance, experimental forms of artistic research, the role of art, artists and art institutions in the public sphere, and formats that exceed that of the exhibition. Between 2009 and 2018, she has worked for various art centers and residency programs (Villa Vassilieff, Bétonsalon, Witte de With, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Performa). She is a Doctor in Artistic Research (PhD-in-Practice, Academy of Fines Arts, Vienna, 2023), a professor in Art and Social Practices at ésadhar (Rouen, since 2024), and a co-founding member of the editorial and curatorial platform Qalqalah قلقلة. In addition to her contributions to various international journals, she has edited the collective publications
Composing Differences (Les presses du réel, 2015),
Republications (with Mathilde Villeneuve, Archive Books, 2015), and
Bestiario de Lengüitas (with Mercedes Azpilicueta, k.verlag, 2024).
