TOCA/MALA - Cross-residency with the students of ENSAPC

Invited by the Fondation Pernod Ricard, seven students from ENSAPC (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris Cergy) take over the autonomous APERTO space, a place conducive to research and creation, for the first edition of TOCA/MALA from June 23 to July 19, 2025. The term takes its name from the trains on lines L and J that run between Gare Saint-Lazare and Cergy, and refers to the extension of a circulatory but also transitory space, where a multitude of individual, collective or collaborative projects can cohabit to and fro.

This cross-residency focuses on the production of variable-dimension forms, in the continuity of projects developed at ENSAPC, echoing different fields of practice linked to writing, cinema, photography, sound or volume, in a work in progress punctuated by invitations, meetings and workshops.

Research projects

Hyungee Kang “Don't kill your darlings”: Research and creation residency during which the artist will continue her ongoing research and experimentation with printed, photographic and textual forms. A restitution will take the form of an installation between photos and text archives, and will be accompanied by a live performance of a photo project (installation) and text archive, a live mix performance with Niloofar Asghary (guest sound artist).
Restitution on Friday, July 11 from 2pm to 7pm

Gloria Mendes-Bernardet and Dino Stravinskij “Mortensen flute and haunted melodies”: Research and creation residency consisting in the collective production of a miniature cardboard village that will enable Gloria Mendes and Dino Stravinskij (as well as other visiting artists) to experiment, invent characters and stories, and make plastic, visual and sound forms collide in this space.

Appointments

Wednesday, July 2, 4pm-8pm: Maxime Le Godec
“Écrire (par) le corps filmique”, Screening of 8 short films + round table and discussion with the public
With Charlie Hewison from Collectif Jeune Cinéma, researcher in experimental cinema, on the ecological dimension of analog films and the alteration of film before distribution (free admission)

Saturday, July 05, 10am - 6pm: Maxime Le Godec
10am - 1pm: Workshop with Tomaz Burlin “Scratching/Writing/Producing” (registration required)
2pm - 6pm: Encounter and conversation about the fiction novel “Milu_skimmed” (free admission)

Wednesday, July 09, 4pm-9pm: Kenza Belkadi / Selma Hyka
“Sound siesta: rethinking places to listen and party”
Guest appearance : Kunthug and Djinn Arezki from the “L.O.L_Liberating Ourselves Locally” (a queer and decolonial collective based in Milan) and “Barbarry” (from the North African, Afro-Caribbean diasporas)
Playlist + listening session + discussions + live broadcast on radio Flouka (free admission)

Friday July 11, 12pm-7pm: Hyungee Kang
“Don't kill your darlings”: Restitution of Hyungee Kang's creative research residency, inviting Niloofar Asghary for an ambient DJ set and a live Noise performance in two sessions: 3pm-4pm / 6pm-7pm (free admission)

Saturday, July 12, 4pm-8pm: Dana Cavigny
“Break up and down: confronting split-ups” 
Writing workshop with Bissai media, a medium that tackles the question of love in Afrodescendant communities in the latest issue of their magazine Face B. Restitution in the form of an edition. Registration required (10 people)

© Dino Stravinskij