Interdisciplinary artist D. Kimm has published four collections of poetry including
La Suite mongole (book/CD-ROM, Planète rebelle, 2001). She made the CD
Le Silence des Hommes in collaboration with guitarist Bernard Falaise.
Her “spoken noise” duo
Mankind (with performer Alexis O’Hara) has appeared at various festivals in Canada (Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Edgy Women, Suoni Per Il Popolo) and overseas (Poesie Berlin Festival in Germany, Donau in Austria, Musique Action et Montevideo in France). The duo’s first CD, titled
Ice Machine, came out in 2009 on the Ambiances Magnétiques label.
D. Kimm has also made three short films:
En attendant Corto Maltese (2007);
Si tu veux me garder, tu dois t’éloigner (2008) in partnership with the late Patrice Duhamel; and
Mlle Clara dompteuse de lapins (2010) in collaboration with Brigitte Henry. All three screened at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois.
In 2010, she was awarded the Québec Studio in New York residency (CALQ) for six months. She is currently working on
La Mariée perpétuelle, a far-reaching poetic and interdisciplinary project that has been presented in Montreal and will tour in Spain in March 2012.
D. Kimm is the artistic director of
Les Filles électriques company and the Festival Voix d’Amériques created in 2002. After 10 years of exploration and innovation, the Festival Voix d’Amériques (FVA) has reinvented itself and adopted the name PHENOMENA.
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Photo credit: photo by Lucie Bazzo