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Aperto, project space of the Fondation Pernod Ricard

The residency

Aperto is an autonomous, dedicated space made entirely available to artists, authors, curators, and publishers, whether working solo or in collectives, who wish to devote themselves to developing a project. A place for work, exhibitions, public meetings, or workshops, its movable partitions allow it to be transformed according to the uses and forms that will be mobilized there, while its location offers the possibility of maintaining a porosity with the outside world or preserving the discretion of the work inside.

Solo Hotel

Since 2024, the private space on the upper floor of Aperto has been occupied by SOLO HOTEL, a sculpture by artists Caroline Rose Curdy and Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos. Composed mainly of glass and steel, it unfolds and adjusts like a body-sized toolbox for residents to store their belongings, work, and rest. In 2025, the artists have planned three activations of the sculpture with artists, authors, and thinkers.

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Radio Aperto

In 2026, Aperto will expand its reach even further by launching Radio Aperto on digital airwaves. Serving as a platform for Aperto’s activities, the program offers listeners a deeper look into the work of its residents and opens up new perspectives through in-depth interviews with guests.

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Research–creation residency of the artist Élise Legal

January → April 2026

Born in Papeete and working in Nantes, Élise Legal is an artist and author. Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines found images, drawing, and poetry, she pays particular attention to the way language and bodies coexist. She is particularly interested in poetry's ability to produce political effects in reality, both through the images it conveys (such as the figure of the accursed poet) and through its friction with administrative, managerial, or political languages. She is also pursuing a research-creation thesis at Paris 8 University, and her texts have been published by Burn~Août, Même pas l'hiver, and Ma Bibliothèque.

^{Image: © Esmire & Erwan}

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Research–creation residency of the artist Élise Legal

January → April 2026

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Aveycke Press, a label for non-musicians: a project by Raphaël Massart

Residency

September - December 2025

Aveycke Press will move into Aperto – the Fondation Pernod Ricard's project space – for a three-month residency. Serving as a launch pad for this new project, the residency will be an opportunity for the artists behind the label to work on defining its initial contours and to experiment, through doing and sharing, with the ideas that Aveycke embodies. How can music be made and distributed today? Faced with the musical, administrative, and visual standards that condition sound production, what should be kept and what should be left behind?

^{Image: © Alejandro Villabona}

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Lou Villapadierna

Residency

January - March 2025

Laboratory for research and experimentation in poetry and sound

Between January and March 2025, the Pernod Ricard Foundation welcomes Lou Villapadierna for a research-creation residency at Aperto. For three months, the artist-researcher will use the Aperto space as a laboratory for research and poetic and sound experimentation. In this context, she will extend her theoretical and sonic explorations, and listen to the multiple spectral traces of these voices with their abstract and/or under-listened-to tonalities.

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LYL Radio, independent webradio

Residency

September-October, 2024

LYL Radio settles in at Aperto for a two-month residency combining (web)radio productions, workshops, meetings, discussions, performances, concerts and DJing.

"For the time of our residency, we'll be moving the Paris studio to Aperto, to produce our ritual broadcasts every Tuesday, to which will be added special programs and broadcasts, celebrating our resident⸱es, their labels and various projects, as well as other intervenant⸱es, as and when we've extended invitations to artists passing through Paris."

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Zzz. the publishing house of graphic design duo Bizzari-Rodriguez

Residency

June-July, 2024

Zzz is a publishing house founded by Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez (Bizzarri-Rodriguez). It claims no editorial policy, other than to explore the potential narratives offered by the book object, and to thwart the typologies and archetypes that traditionally govern its form and structure.

Its first book, Un'fold (working title), by artist David Douard, will be published in autumn 2024. It will be an immersion in the circulation of language, words and images within his work. Where everything interpenetrates, like a never-finished fanzine-always ongoing-these flows intermingle, agglomerating works, collages, research, sources and references, notes, personal archives and other motifs in gestation. The book shows and renews, fixes as much as it modifies David Douard's work, translating the energies that run through and articulate his practice. Author Nina Kennel's text circulates within the object, insinuating itself into its very materiality.

As a preliminary to their first publication on David Douard's work in the autumn, in July they will publish a zine based on the artist's personal poem and photographs.

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Toomanyrecordss par MORE Projects - nomad artist run space

Residency

March 4 to June 2, 2024

Toomanyrecordss is an expansive project. Part collection, part archive of unique artworks, the project plays with fetishism simultaneously in music and art.

Since 2018, Davide Bertocchi and Sergio Verastegui have been inviting artists to intervene on 33 rpm records that they choose and entrust to them or send to them by post. It's a carte blanche to create a work with / or on the sleeve or on the vinyl (or both). The records come from a wide variety of sources, sometimes chosen according to the musical tastes of the two artists initiating the project, sometimes because one or more elements in the sleeve appeal to an imagination close to that of the guest artist. Each vinyl thus becomes a "unique" piece, where the collaborative process generates a new object, a hybrid work from the vinyl/cover format.

Public opening times will be organized during this residency.

The project was first presented in 2019 at Art-O-Rama, Marseille.

Bétonsalon - Earth Ears : écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros

Exhibition

November 22, 2023 - February 17, 2024

Curator: Emilie Renard & Maud Jacquin
Sculptor: Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
Graphic designer: Martha Salimbeni

Bétonsalon - center d'art et de recherche, opens the premises with the exhibition "Earth Ears: écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros", a project conceived as an echo and extension of the exhibition it is devoting to the composer, a founding figure in the practice of Deep Listening.

Echoing the exhibition "Un-Tuning Together: pratiquer l'écoute avec Pauline Oliveros" held at Bétonsalon, this project explores the links between Deep Listening and ecology through a selection of archives and works by Oliveros, pioneer of electronic music, accordionist, educator and feminist composer.

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