LA BECQUE PORTRAITS - Colin Self
Learn more about the American artist, composer and puppeteer Colin (@colinself )’s three-month residency as part of our Principal Residency Program with this new video in our series of portraits of La Becque residents.
While at La Becque, Colin worked on a series of videos with Bobbi Salvör Menuez (@hi_its_bobbi ), relating to their forthcoming record, ‘respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis’, which comes out on February 21, 2025 on RVNG Intl. (@rvngintl ). Colin also created some new ceramics and puppets, and developed a performance called ‘Voice for a Shadow’, which they presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (@centrepompidou ) last October and at La Becque during the last session of our Open Studios in November 2024.
Video credits
Direction, photography, editing and sound: Matthias Staub (@mattia_al_rascass )
Additional footage: Laura Morales (@blablu )
Sound Mix: Boris Gétaz (@borisgetaz )
Sound design: Jonathan Vallin (@than__lin )
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Registration is now open for the fourth iteration of This is a Performance School!
It has been a great joy to build this program over the last four years alongside @fluct_monica@donchristianjones@eatplaylove69@mskrissylou@temp.girl.1.2.3@mahamscience and several other angels
‘This is a performance school’ is a week-long intensive that will host 12-15 participants who are interested in developing a new approach to performance pedagogy. This school offers an opportunity to cultivate skills as a Performer or Performance Facilitator and build relationships within a performance community. All workshops, food and accommodations are included in the tuition. Travel expenses are not included.
The Dates are:
September 12 - 21, 2026
in Lincolnville, ME
The prices vary depending on accommodation. We also have two full scholarships available and 5 partial scholarships.
Registration and scholarship applications can be found through the link in my bio~
This past month, Colin Self took residence in the Pioneer Works Recording Studio as our April–May Music Resident.
An artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn and Berlin, Self creates music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit on a spectrum between the living and deceased.
This past Sunday, Self hosted an XOIR session—Self's group singing collective—in the garden as they continue work on a new choral LP which utilizes a specialized multi-channel wireless roving speaker array developed in collaboration with their cousin @peterjbowling .
Follow @colinself on Instagram, and visit our link in bio to learn more about Colin's work.
P.S. Next week, we'll welcome our next Music Resident, Astrid Sonne (@astridsonne_ )! Stay tuned for more updates about our residency program in the coming weeks. 👀
Deejaying tomorrow on @thelotradio at noon playing some things I’ve made while at my residency at @pioneerworks I am maybe gonna get a haircut in time we will see hmmm
Good morning! Hosting a XOIR session at @pioneerworks this Sunday from 1pm-3pm as a part of their open studio program. I’ve been an artist-in-residence at PW for the last month working on a choral LP and will present a prototype of a specialized multi-channel wireless roving speaker array developed in collaboration with my cousin @peterjbowling ! It is also maybe a sneaky performance :)
RSVP in the comments below.
My fav 📸 @ichoubandet
Merch drop! Shirts from our show DOOM with @vittucciteresa for the performance on the 9th at @tanzhauszuerich &&& will also be on sale at my New York show at @union_pool on April 15th! Proceeds go to @palestinianchildrensfund 30 CHF / 33 EUR / 40 USD , sizes S-5XL ! If you want one come to the show in NYC and comment what size for me to bring you!
Grütsi! One more XOIR session in Zürich next week at @tanzhauszuerich as a part of @vittucciteresa staging of her Trilogy “In Praise of Vulnerability”~ stay afterwards for her performance! RSVP link in bio / Please tell your Swiss friends!
I feel so immensely fortunate to have been graced with Agosto’s light and spirit. My relationship with Agosto began only after pandemic lockdown, but grounded me in a sense of belonging and reunited me with an understanding of my role as an artist. An anchor of meaningfulness, she helped guide me to a bridge of lineages, and opened the responsibility of stewardship; to carry forward the spirit of collective celebration, of rage and courage and justice, of glamor and ridiculousness. Above all else, I was profoundly moved by Agosto’s kindness— and his love and reverence for community members who had passed away. These shrines and altars, filled with artists, performers, activists, and street queens alike became a crucial example of how I want to be a part of what he called “the ensemble of life”. Celebrating Agosto’s spirit and legacy is also a celebration of communities, of the margins, the underground and the unknown, unnamed angels who graced the stages and streets across generations.
This diva queen became my compass, guiding me back to myself, to remember why I make art and music and performance. It is the greatest honor that Agosto let his beautiful shrines be the album art for my record, and that I had the pleasure of performing together last year.
Agosto’s lightness, in generosity and spirit, taught me how to live in reverence and celebration of those who have passed away. & with Agosto’s passing I am continuing to learn from him about what that lightness is. My heart is with all of those who loved Agosto, who knew him across time.
There is a huge party unfolding in the spirit world as I write this, as Agosto joins all his friends, all the other ancestors. & Agosto has left me with a lifetime of names to spend time with. Thank you Agosto for blessing my life with your presence, and for what you’ve taught me. I will miss you very much 🌸
