editingworldgrid is a transmedia art project led by sound artist Hugo Mir-Valette (Marseille, fr)
To provide sonic support to liquid speculation, post-abyssal languages, everlasting myths, Mediterranean futuribles, throughout community-driven research and alchemic technologies.
Hugo Mir-Valette is an active member of Rift Association (Marseille, FR) and Bogiaisso (Chioggia, IT), initiator of
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Sonic pieces have notably been showcased at the Saison Méditerranée 2026, Triennale Milano, Venice Art Biennale, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Pompidou, Mucem, Festival Parallèle, Festival PLATEAUX (Marseille), Fondation Ricard, MAMCO (Genève), Biblioteca Vasconcelos (Mexico City), Terme de Diocleziano (Roma), La Nuit des Forêts (La Réunion Island), and in various short films and installations directed by Josèfa Ntjam and Sean Hart (Aquatic Invasion Productions).
Chronology
2026 Résistances & Désobéissances
Audiovisual installation
La Citadelle de Marseille FR x B7L9 Tunis TN
Founded by Institut Français de Tunisie
Saison Méditerranée 2026
Armillaria, film, 14’32
The Armillaria fungus feeds on olive trees by eating them from the main trunk, which triggers the tree to generate new sprouts. Through a musical, detemporalized and liquid approach, Armillaria explores the biological life cycles of these organisms capable of living for several thousand years. Allegories of resistance, the artist uses them to construct an experimental narrative, focused on the experience of the Mediterranean locals, interpretating the olive groves as spaces of fluid frictions; spaces to be reclaimed.
Portals I, II, sound sculptures
The sound sculptures Portals I, II, created with Jeanne Yuna Rocher, a visual artist specializing in lenticular work, seem to emerge from the video to extend the reflection and make it felt physically. Made from lenticular fragments taken from images of the multi-millennial olive tree of Echraf, they show recomposed organic matter moving according to the shifting gaze.
text by Léa Lascaud
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SONAI : Sfogio Nero
performance with Niccolo Moronato,
Triennale, Milano, IT
25AV Residency hosted by Radio Raheem.
SONAI RESEARCH GROUP narrative experimentation, with the collaboration of Alice Jasmine Crippa, Valerie Tameu.
2026 PLATEAUX III
Marseille Opera, La Cômerie, Marseille, Parc Vendôme, Aix, FR
PLATEAUX Festival co-producer in Marseille. Missions : resident artist, audio and visual identity, coordination, development.
2026 Lettre Infinie
Soma Marseille
Performance, 75’
directed by Constant Spina
improvised music by Catharæ x
Myrrh Wa Saphira
Back in Sicily, Theseus writes an endless letter to loved ones, beginning with the account of a quest: to solve the mystery of a forgotten tomb. A genderless child of a thousand loves, a centaur half-human, half-ghost, they traverse a liminal world where reality intertwines with myths, legends, and childhood adventures. Between the ruins of the past and those of the present, Theseus inhabits the scars of a land peopled with gods and goddesses, stars, plants, and creatures, and walks at the foot of mountains of fire. An atmospheric Mediterranean tale in which Constant Spina makes his native island the true heroine of the story.
2025 Bogiaisso :
Barca Infinitæ
Chioggia, IT
A collective marine soundscape at Bogiaisso festival, involving 80+ persons from the local community. In this partition written for smartphones, every participant becomes an individual sonic vessel, carrying their own channel.
2025 Marea Art Project : ECHOING residency
Praiano, Amalfi Coast, IT
supported by Culture Moves Europe & Goethe Institute
Links
https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2025/02/marea-art-project-sound-artist/
https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/echoing-la-costiera-amalfitana-risuona-con-arte-contemporanea/
https://www.mareartproject.com/en/echoing-e-le-nuove-maree-in-arrivo/
2025 Bogiaisso : Gladiatore residency
Chioggia, IT
Sonài research group, Chioggia, Italy.
Collaborators : Niccolo Moronato, Alice Jasmine Crippa,
Abbas Zahedi
funding partner : radar.xyz
Links
https://myartguides.com/interviews/bogiaisso-a-video-art-festival-engaging-chioggia-and-its-fishers/https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/event/bogiaisso
2024-2025 Dos Mares : Écumes program
Marseille, FR
Translocal cooperative program for critical reflection and mobility
Marseille, Ateliers Blancarde
Links
https://2mares.org/ecumes-2024-2025/
2024 swell of spæc(i)es, Josèfa Ntjam, Venice Biennale Arte
Membrane sculpture sound, LAS Pavillion, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
Links
https://www.las-art.foundation/programme/swell-of-spaecies
- 2024 Love-Intelligence-Revolution residency
Online research program, Foreign Objekt, led by Sepideh Majidi, San Francisco, US
Links
https://www.posthumanart.com/post/fractal-music-does-has-and-will-always-exist
2022-2023 b r e a t h i n g
Choreographic sound piece and workshops, co-created with Liam Warren.
3BisF, Aix en Provence
KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille
Villa Floréal, Aix en Provence
GMEM Centre National de Création Musicale, Marseille
CND - Centre National de la Danse, Pantin
CCNR - Lyon
Leña Stay, Galliano Island
Links
https://www.kelemenis.fr/fr/les-spectacles/1259/b-r-e-a-t-h-i-n-g
https://www.maculture.fr/breathing
2022-2023 Artagon Marseille residency
14-months residency
2023 Marseille Hyper Réel solo show
Soma Marseille x Fraeme x Lyl Radio
Guests : GLARC records, Aho Ssan, Alie Awa
Links
https://soma-art.org/programmation/editingworldgrid/
2022 Aide à la Création (AIC) DRAC PACA laureate
Award fund from the French Ministry of Culture
2020 Aquatic Invasion, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Invited by Josèfa Ntjam, with Sean Heart, Nicolas Pirus, Aho Ssan,
Fallon Mayanja, Aho Ssan, Steven Jacques. Curated by Vittoria Mattarese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBF6eOV0C9k
portfolio
releases : Bandcamp
research : posthumanart.com
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“When I am asked what is the biggest astronomic discovery of our modern times, my answer is : it’s the fact that our universe has a story”.
Hubert Reeves