INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL IN MARTINIQUE Annabel Gueredrat and Henri Tauliaut co-direct the International Performance Art Festival of Martinique (FIAP), a platform dedicated to the dissemination, research, and networking of performative practices on a Caribbean and international scale. Through the FIAP and Artincidence, they develop projects that blend creation, transmission, and cooperation, actively contributing to the visibility of Caribbean art scenes within contemporary global dynamics. Objectives: o To highlight performance art, a field still little known in Martinique: What is performance art? What are its histories and struggles in different countries? o Encourage encounters between various artists from Martinique and the rest of the world to foster new collaborations. o Raise awareness among students at the Caribbean Arts Campus (CCA) about the creative process and the working life of a professional artist. o Organize two public professional workshops: 1st day dedicated to FIAP MQ artists / 2nd day focusing on theoretical themes from the 5th edition. o Extend the Festival’s highlight period through presentations organized by the FIAP MQ curators and guest curators.e.s ABOUT THE FIAP MQ CURATORS ANNABEL GUEREDRAT She is a choreographer, dancer, performer, and certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, and has directed the Artincidence Company since 2003. Her work explores the political body of Black Caribbean women, drawing on themes of modern witches, radical ecofeminism, Afro-diasporic spiritualities, and cyber-motherhood. As the creator of the avatar Mami Sargassa, she develops ritualized work centered on sargassum, reexamining the toxicity associated with colonial habitation. She also works in educational, correctional, and medical-social settings. She co-founded FIAP Martinique in 2017 and, with Henri Tauliaut, established a performance art laboratory set in the great outdoors. She has created eight major works: *A Freak Show for S.* (2012); *A Woman* (2014); Valeska and You (2015); I’M A BRUJA (2018); MamiSargassa 3.0. (2023); *Nus descendant l'escalier #7* (2024); *Let’s go back to the river* (2025); *J’ai respire par la peau du ventre* (2027). Her work explores the relationships between the body, memory, territory, and postcolonial issues through engaged performative forms. HENRI TAULIAUT For the past twenty years, he has been exploring the connections between art and science through two main areas: digital arts and performance. His digital art practice encompasses digital media and bioart. In 2019, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Biological and Digital Arts in Relation to the Living in the Work of Contemporary Artists from the Caribbean and the Americas.”Henri Tauliaut exhibits and performs in the Caribbean, South and North America, France, Senegal, and China. In 2015, he represented Guadeloupe and France at the 12th Havana Biennial with *Jungle Sphere 3.0*.Since 2015, he has been developing a series of performances with choreographer and performer Annabel Gueredrat, with whom he has created the worlds of Aqua, Iguana, Afro-Punk, and Techno-Chaman. Together, they co-direct the performance art laboratory—dedicated to performative practices and land art—at the Savane des Petrifications in Martinique, and have co-organized the FIAPMQ since 2017.In 2024, he created the video game installation *Water Divinity* (presented at Bozar Arcade in Belgium and at Gantner) and exhibited *ADN Guyane* in Cayenne. In 2023, he participated in *Aux futurs ancestraux* in Guyancourt and the Videoformes festival in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2022, with the Alice Yard collective and Annabel Gueredrat, he presented videos at Documenta 15. Between 2019 and 2022, he exhibited his projects *Bio-Art*, *ADN Caraibe*, and *Interfaces* in the Caribbean. In 2019, he presented the performance *Bubbles* in Miami, and in 2021, he was invited to the *Mar d’Islas* festival in Puerto Rico. HIGHLIGHT OF THIS 5TH EDITION: FIAP 2026 MQ For the first time, an open call will be launched. Priority will be given to collaborative perspectives between artists, art critics, and curators. It will be an intergenerational festival that will give rise to a temporary, self-managed community throughout the event. The focus will be on rituals, much like an artistic retreat. There will be performances both on-site and around town (at specific locations). THE THEMES OF THIS 5TH EDITION For the 2026 edition, FIAP Martinique aims to explore contemporary issues through the lens of the Caribbean as a critical prism. 4 THEMES TO CHOOSE FROM: o Caregiving o Queerness o Engaging with Afro-diasporic and Kalinago communities o Merging with nature PARTICIPANTS IN THE 5TH EDITION OF FIAP MQ DAVID DEMETRIUS - GUEST CURATOR David Demetrius is a Guadeloupean curator and art critic, born in 1996, with a focus on Caribbean art scenes and their diasporas, as well as their relationship with the rest of the world. Trained in art history and anthropology, he explores themes of silence, memory, and the temporalities of the body. Since 2021, he has been involved in numerous curatorial projects and collaborations in the Caribbean and beyond, while also writing for several journals and editorial projects. SELOUA LUSTE BOULBINA - SHE Guest Curator of Honor Seloua Luste Boulbina is a philosopher, writer, curator, and researcher. Her work focuses on postcolonial thought, cultural heritage, and questions of identity, exploring the connections between history, language, and power. As a curator, she designs exhibitions that extend her theoretical research, highlighting artists and narratives that are often marginalized. Her critical approach aims to open up new spaces for reflection and dialogue around contemporary issues of decolonization in knowledge and artistic practices. DAVID TENORIO GONZALEZ - IL/IEL Curator and art critic David Tenorio (il/iel) is an associate professor at the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of *Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad (University of Michigan Press, 2025). At the intersection of Latin American and Latinx studies, night studies, performance studies, new media, and digital humanities, his transdisciplinary work examines trans/queer nightlife as a form of political activism in the Americas. His work has been published in *Transmodernity*, *Lateral*, *Hispanic Review*, *Latin American Theater Review*, *Centro Journal*, *Revista Conjunto*, *The Global Encyclopedia of LGBT History*, *The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies*, *The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect*, and *Cuban Studies*. MARIO BARRANTES ESPINOZA - IL Artist Mario Barrantes Espinoza is an artist of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan descent. Trained in Costa Rica and a graduate of P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium (2016, 2018), he develops work at the intersection of the body, voice, sound, and text through performances presented on international stages.His pieces, including *El cantar del playo* (2022, 2020 Roel Verniers Prize) and *FLESH CAN’T CAN’T NOT’T ‘TIS FLESH H...* (2024, selected for Het Theaterfestival 2025), explore queer narratives and migration from the Global South. His current project, Maxhete, examines the construction of myths in Central America. At the same time, he creates projects in nightlife settings (Culo Shaking Night!, Apolemia) and works as a teacher and mentor at P.A.R.T.S., KASK, and the Antwerp Conservatory. FREKWENCIAELLE/IEL Artist Frekwencia is a multimedia artist whose practice is guided by ase, the life force in Yoruba cosmology. She combines performance, sound art, writing, sculpture, and installation around Afro-diasporic memories, fleeting modes of listening, and visible and invisible materialities. Drawing on a vibrational and haptic poetics, she creates sensitive spaces of suspension and communion where sound, gesture, and matter intertwine. In these relational and mobile processes, the body becomes a portal for transmission and encounter between the living and the ancestral, cultivating a collective resonance and a shared presence. AEZ PINAY - IL/IEL Artist A.E.Z. Pinay is a queer Afro-European artist, videographer, and performer. His work and research revolve around the Black ethos in France and the Afro-diasporic experience in its poetic, political, and spiritual expressions. Mourning, melancholy, and the absurd are elements that permeate his creations. Another aspect of his practice involves cultivating his ability to exist outside of market-driven values—to rest, do nothing, lie in the grass, pray, lament, cry, observe the living, and open himself to the possibilities of creating the world differently. They are currently studying and working in Amsterdam. HELIO - IEL Artist Helio Volana’s transdisciplinary work explores memory and spirituality through the lens of queer and decolonial issues. They transform installation into a sanctuary, performance into a ritual, and sound into an intimate prayer. A graduate of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, they were awarded the FoRTE (Île-de-France Region) and Mira (Institut Français) fellowships in 2024. Their solo exhibition *Lamba: Memory Dwells in Silence* will be on view at the Teinturerie in Antananarivo in the spring of 2026, following a creative residency at the H Foundation. Their work has been featured notably at the Ceysson & Benetiere Gallery (Saint-Étienne), at the Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain (Montreuil), at the Maison des Arts in Malakoff, and in AFRIKADAA magazine. Helio Volana lives and works between Paris and Antananarivo. FIAP Martinique, fiapmartinique@gmail.com T
