podcast

AGATHE SIMON
50 years

Performed podcast
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university
Stereo | 58’ | 2024

© Agathe Simon

More information on podcast #1257
on the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne website

Invited by the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university for its new podcast #1257, Agathe Simon talks about her experience of creating in extreme environments, including Antarctica, the Arctic and Central Africa. She dedicates this episode to Gabriela Conti (1974-2010), the famous Franco-Argentine novelist and explorer whose 50th birthday would have been celebrated in November 2024. In collaboration with Gilles Lecerf, the podcast’s host, she discusses Gabriela Conti’s connection with the University of Paris 1 and reveals some of her creative secrets. This performance is part of the multimedia cycle The Conti Project, created as a tribute to this imaginary writer.

The Conti Project is an immersive multimedia cycle in homage to the famous French-Argentine novelist Gabriela Conti (1974-2010) – who does not exist. Since 2013, with the support of various institutional partners, Agathe Simon has been unfolding the Gabriela Conti fiction through solo and collective performances, a documentary directed in Antarctica, a video triptych filmed in the Arctic, an installation of 120 archives and documents, novels and travel stories, film photographs, a radio play on France Culture and two 5.1 sound installations.