Biography
Currently a researcher at HEAD – Geneva (HES-SO) and designer, Benoît Renaudin was one of the associated artists at L’Abri (2019-2020) in Geneva. Since 2018, he has been conducting research on the question of performative objects with a strong playful dimension. Musician, performer, scenographer, he flourishes into numerous projects. He lives in Geneva. He favors interdisciplinary projects, imagines and designs interactive and performative objects in design, theater and contemporary music. After graduating in journalism from IJBA (Bordeaux/France) and working for several years in the cultural press, he resumed his studies at HEAD – Geneva and obtained his master’s degree in Media Design in 2017. His creations have been shown in numerous places and festivals in Switzerland, France and internationally: Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva, Pro Helvetia residency in Cairo 2016, Festival de la Bâtie in Geneva, Festival Castrum in Yverdon-les-Bains, Festival de la Cité in Lausanne, Olympia Theater in Tours, Unique Place in Nantes, New Cinema Festival in Montreal, Art ellewa in Cairo…
Contents

15.01.2024
Performative card games: interviews with DD Dorvillier and Douglas E. Stanley
As part of their cross-disciplinary research into design and the performing arts, research duo Isis Fahmy and Benoît Renaudin sat down with the dancer and choreographer DD Dorvillier and the artist and…

22.01.2020
How to create performative objects
A research between design and theatre
During a research project, the stage director Isis Fahmy and designers Laura Couto Rosado and Benoît Renaudin joined forces to assess the concept of performative objects. This notion, which they invented, covers…