Ghyslaine Gau
6th – 19th March 2026 residency | 14th March 2026 open studio | 15th March 2026 showing
Zagreb, Croatia
We are happy to announce Ghyslaine Gau, who will be visiting Zagreb for a residency, open studio and showing of her processes and work!
This programme is a part of the Life Long Burning Creative Europe project.
BIOGRAPHY
Ghyslaine Gau is a choreographic artist from the Caribbean. Alongside her work as a performer, she has long developed physical practices in schools and medical-educational settings with marginalised audiences. Her research is deeply connected to Afro-feminist thought and engaged in a dynamic of deconstructing ‘colonial thinking’.
Ghyslaine Gau invites collaboration between different practices (body, sound, image, theory) and allows various formats to emerge (performance, installation, film, choreographic piece). Like dance, creation is for her a mode of survival, a methodology, a skill. Her research work is created from the dancing body and its poetic, political and spiritual dimensions. She envisions relationships as a space where questions arise, with the body remaining the place of transformation and expression.
Alongside her research work, Ghyslaine Gau continues to perform in others work. Recently she has collaborated with Kate Macintosh, Eszter Salamon, Alice Chauchat, Juan Dominguez and Arantxa Martinez, among others. She has been mentoring students in the EXERCE master’s programme for four years. She is a laureate of the Creative Crossroads programme of Life Long Burning 2025/2026 with the project S.U.T.U.R.E / Sourd Boucan.
OPEN STUDIO
14th March 2026
10:00 – 16:00, STUDIO ILICA, Ilica 61, Zagreb, Croatia
This studio opening is intended as a space for sharing resources.
It is aimed at local artists who are interested in body practices, who are developing their own research and who wish to pool their experiences and methodologies.
It is a space for sharing and support.
Ghyslaine Gau will share elements of her research and propose a framework for developing common cartographies together.
PROPOSITION OF ACTIVITIES
Morning: Dance/body practice that I’m busy with
Shared lunch
Collective nap
Afternoon: Crafting/making/talking from our different perspectives
It is necessary to be able to express oneself in English.
SHOWING
S.U.T.U.R.E / Sourd Boucan
15h March 2026
18:00, TALA PLE(j)S, Radnička cesta 27, Zagreb, Croatia
The word “suture” literally means “to sew”. In anatomy, a suture is a stitch that connects tissues that have generally been separated by accident. It is often rigid and sometimes superimposed, but it always holds without erasing differences. Inspired by the anatomical meaning of the word “suture”—to sew, to bring together—this project proposes a method of articulation that allows different practices, temporalities, and forms of knowledge to coexist without being homogenized. S.U.T.U.R.E creates a space in which two distinct and complementary methodologies can interact, remain open, and coexist. SOURD BOUCAN is one of them. It is a multidimensional installation where slow transformation and sudden bursts of energy coexist. A space where bodies, breath, and sounds spiral, interact, and mutate continuously.
SOURD BOUCAN engages the senses and attempts to make the invisible tangible by vibrating the space in-between, by resonating the internal.
For this solo residency, I will continue my exploration of physical practices in dialogue with the trumpet. I would like to delve deeper, shape the sound material, and introduce the voice into the vibratory field.