Biografie
Laurence Favre is an artist, filmmaker and researcher working with still and moving images – mostly analog – sounds and writings. She studied at Geneva University, HEAD Geneva, ECAL Lausanne and ZHdK Zurich, completing a Master of Arts (2005) and Master of Advanced Studies (2007) in Sociology, as well as a Master of Arts in Cinema (2012).
Her films have been awarded multiple times and shown internationally in film festivals such as Locarno film festival, Rotterdam IFFR, Hong Kong HKIFF, Ann Arbor Film Festival and others, in art spaces (Tabakalera San Sebastian, Silent Green Berlin, Espace Arlaud Lausanne, CAN Neuchâtel, etc.) as well as in informal spaces and in the frame of symposiums. She has been awarded several artist grants and residencies.
Favre’s research based work takes the shape of experimental films, installations and film performances, looking for ways of triggering epistemic changes through sensory perception. She creates poetic sound-and-image-driven spaces where temporalities are blurred, and conceptual binary opposition (presence/absence, visibility/invisibility, memory/oblivion, still/moving, real/fictional) are diverted.
Focusing on notions such as de-centering and un-othering, she develops the concepts of Expanded Spetropoetics and the Anarchive, in the field of decolonial ecology.
She is an active member of the artist-run filmlab LaborBerlin, and co-funded SPECTRAL, a initiative of six artist-run filmlab for the creation and diffusion of Expanded Cinematic Arts.
Laurence Favre has been invited as visiting lecturer at art schools and universities including Geneva University, Freie Univesität Berlin and ZHdK Zürich. She has worked as a research collaborator at Geneva University and as a scientific collaborator at ZHdK.
Favre has lived in Switzerland, Colombia, Australia, Portugal and Germany and speaks fluent french, spanish, english, portuguese and german.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
exhibitions & screenings - selection
2024 - Butterfly Stories: Malaise, SPACE, Berlin
2023 - La Contrainte du hasard, Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel (CAN) – with Mirjam Landolt
2023 - hic&nunc, nano Raum für Kunst, Zürich – with Xavier Bauer
2019 - Lettres au Docteur L, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne
2017 - Resistance, Locarno Film Festival
conferences & artist talks - selection
2022 - Le Géant de glace, le film et nous. Pour un décentrement filmique, colloque " l’art et les formes de la nature ", Montpellier / Paris (FR)
2021 - La francophonie dans le monde d’après, Nuits de la francophonie
2019 - From the Amazon to the Alps, Visual Arts and Science in dialogue, Universität & Kunstmuseum Luzern
publications - selection
2023 - Le Géant de glace, le film et nous – pour un décentrement filmique
2023 - La Contrainte du hasard, with Mirjam Landolt – artist book