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Olivier Goulet 
Based in Normandy & Paris
+33 6 19 94 22 71 
xogoulet[at]gmail.com

Olivier Goulet is a transmedia artist and performer whose work explores the possible mutations of the human species. At the crossroads of activism, design and embodied practices, he examines the transformations of contemporary identity through the fusion between organic and digital worlds.
    
With the synthetic skin membranes SkinBag, he develops a series of external organs and garments that question the boundaries of the body and propose a new form of nudity for our social body, redefining the expanded contours of contemporary identity.

His large drawings from the Human Profile series reveal the porosity of organisms and the flows of all kinds that pass through and connect them.
    
He also practices dance, Qi Gong and massage to explore the gestures and postures of everyday life. These investigations give rise to various performances centered on breath, sound and bodily dynamics.

For more than twenty years, he has been transforming his house into an evolving artwork. Onirika and its organically mutating architecture thus become a space for experimentation where embodied practices and artistic experiences meet, somewhere between a cabinet of curiosities and a place of meditation.

Skin emerges as the guiding thread of this research: an identity interface with SkinBag, an embodied surface in the sculptures, a porous membrane in the drawings, the threshold of breath in the performances, and, with Onirika, an architectural and inhabitable skin.

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Olivier Goulet 
Born 4 November 1969
French and German nationality

Main Projects 
1996 – Human Hunting Trophies (HHT) – beginning of the project
1997 – Mail-Order Territory Sale (VTPC) 
2000 – SkinBag – first objects > 
2001 – Relic of the Bionic Man
2005 – Protected Kisses – performances (facial condoms)
2008 – Human Profile – beginning of the drawing series
2013 –  Onirika  –beginning of the interdisciplinary project: architecture, art, performance, well-being
2014 – O Democracy – study for a governance softwar

•​ Selected Solo Exhibitions
1996 – Stop Breathing – Artothèque de Caen
2001 – Human Relics – Galerie du Bellay, Rouen
2006 – Skin – Roxy, Basel, CH and Rigiblick, Zürich, CH
2007 – SkinBag Shop Windows – 107RIVOLI, Paris
2010 – Transcorporation – Hypertopie Gallery, Caen
2013 – MixCorpus – Bains-douches, Alençon

• Selected Group Exhibitions
1997 – Skin – Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
2004 – Mutatis Mutandis – Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine, Paris
2006 – Figures of Artifice – Musée d’Ethnographie, Neuchâtel, CH
2007 – Nature Design – Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
2008 – Sk-interfaces – FACT, Liverpool, GB + Casino Luxembourg
2008 – Design & Emotion – Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, D
2009 – Freeze ! 2009 – International MedTech Art Show, Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 – Skin – Wellcome Collection, London, GB
2011 – Skin – Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne, CH
2019 – Liberty, Equality, Diversity – Abbaye Daoulas
2020 – Fields of Possibilities – ar[T]senal, Dreux
2023 – Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code – NYC, USA
 
• Selected Performances, Conferences
2005 – Orbitallink – dance improvisation, OPA, Paris
2006 – Night of Mutation – SkinBag Performance, Budapest, HU
2006 – Ending Anthropomorphism – Organism seminar lecture, Paris 3 Sorbonne
2008-10 – Protected Kisses – performance, Liverpool, GB / Leerdam, NL / Caen
2010 – ForLife – performance with SB-burqa, Boisset, Caen / London, GB
2012 – The Moment of the Living – Conference, Cerisy la Salle
2012 – Molecular Soup – performance, Assises du Vivant, ESPGG, Paris
2013 – Magnetic – dance performance with SB-burqa, Blois
2014 – O Democracy and Governance Software – Conf., TransVision 2014, ESPGG, Paris
2016 – From Skinfolds to Gestural Unfolding – performative lecture, The Fold conference, EnsAD, Paris
2017 – Song of Gestures: Ambiguous Gestures – performative lecture, Cehta / INHA, Paris
2017 – Life is a Vapor – performance with D. Peysson, Opéra Comique, Paris
2018 – Meeting in 1000 Breaths – performance with L. Pointelin, Sepulcre, Caen
2021 – Fleur de peau – performance with D. Peysson, Sorbonne, Paris
2022 – Echoes – Qi Gong improvisation with P. Lallemand, Echoes of Pink Floyd, Giverny

Selected Publications
1996 – 381 Characters, 381 Places, and Two Colors – Artothèque de Caen Catalogue
2007 – Figures of Artifice (Cat.) – Musée Ethno. Neuchâtel, CH, pp.38-39, 179 & 210-217
2008 – Sk-interfaces (Cat.) – FACT, Liverpool, GB, pp.150-152
2014 – Creative Skins – Klinckseck, pp.85-86
2015 – Through the Prism of the Game – Ed. Hermann, lecture on Go, pp.207-221
2016 – The Moment of the Living – PUF, pp.441-459
 
• Public Collections
Artothèque de Caen
Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel, CH
Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Étienne
FRAC Haute-Normandie

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