Keynotes speakers > Olivier Marboeuf

Olivier Marboeuf is a writer, storyteller and curator. He founded the independent art centre Espace Khiasma, which he has been running from 2004 to 2018 in Les Lilas, on the outskirts of Paris. At Khiasma, he developed a programme addressing minority representations through exhibitions, screenings, debates, performances and collaborative projects across the North-East of Paris. Since 2017, Khiasma has merged into an experimental platform, exploring ways of creating a place collectively and developing an online radiophonic tool, R22 Tout-Monde.

Olivier Marboeuf has been interested in the different modalities of transmission of knowledge, and his work is still based on practices of conversation and speculative narratives, attempting to create ephemeral situations of culture. His interest for narrative forms in art led him to develop a specific practice of accompaniment for artists inscribed in film practices. He currently produces films within Spectre productions, based in Rennes, and contributes to the cinematic distribution and research unit, Phantom. For financial reasons, Khiasma closed in October 2018 but a new collective is now developed in the same place, in Les Lilas.

After having published his notes on the Khiasma blog, he now gathers his short texts, talks, interviews and ongoing pieces of research in French and English on his blog Toujours debout.