Lucille Calmel (born 10 August 1969 Agen) is a French performer , director , writer , and web artist.

She lived in Montpellier and since 2005, has lived in Brussels. She has been practicing performance art since 1990 in Europe and the United States . A researcher of living writing from the theatrical stage to this new Internet stage, she explores the performative dimensions between corporeality, vocality, sound, and textuality.^[1]

Lucille Calmel studied in Bordeaux between 1987 and 1989. There, she was involved with the DMA2 association (Defense of Contemporary Music) and the community radio station La VAGH (Life at the High Frequency), where she improvised live mixes of experimental, electronic, industrial, noise music, and spoken word pieces on the show Capharnaüm for two years. This was followed in the summer of 1989 by a long travelogue, a report on innovative music in Southern Europe, published in the Agen daily newspaper Le Petit Bleu , which led to her assisting with the production of the show, From ethnic music to the new music of La Grande Famille on Canal+ . Her first musical programming at the L'État du Rock festival in Montpellier in 1991 also featured performances.

Between 1990 and 1995, she directed the performance collective Les Trifides, which for almost three years performed in former East Germany thanks to the Berlin-based association Interkunst eV.^[2] It was during this period that she met Mathias Beyler, with whom she founded the experimental theatre company Myrtilles  (1995-2005).^[3] Their first production, Myrtilles, brought together artists from all disciplines and generations in the non-frontal space of the CRAM squat . Their work achieved national recognition with the productions of Cravan and Vladimir Maïakovski, a tragedy in two acts , created at the Centre dramatique national Les Treize Vents in Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon.

From 1997 onwards, she explored in internet cafes with Net.art, which changed her relationship to daily life, to writing, to relationships, and to the web, which she perceived as a new stage space. It was through participating in 2003 in a series of meetings with some fifteen French writers, on Éric Arlix's blog, that her desire to experiment live on stage and/or online with a vibrant, performative, relational form of writing, using software manipulation, computer systems, and online functionalities, was confirmed.

From 1997 to 2004, she and Mathias Beyler provided artistic direction for .lacooperative, a research and experimentation space focused on current technologies and indisciplines in Montpellier.^[4][5]

In 2002, Lucille Calmel commissioned Lukas Zpira to create a world-first hair implant, a Body Art experiment exploring new forms of bodily transformation. In 2007, she was a programming assistant at recyclart in Brussels . She initiated events involving live writing, sound poetry, and experimental music, as well as workshops for in-person and online encounters in France and Belgium. She toured with Marc Jacobs in the musical group Prairie Calmel,^[6] and participated in Annie Abrahams' web performances.

She is also invited as a jury member at INSAS  (National Higher Institute of Performing Arts), lecturer at the National Higher School of Visual Arts La Cambre  (CASO Performance + digital arts) in Brussels, at the University of Scarborough (Theatre and Performance section).^[7]

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