Bastienne is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and performer based in Brussels. Their artistic path began with classical music training at the Conservatoire du Mans, studying piano, clarinet, and music theory, before pursuing visual arts studies at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and later at Villa Arson (École nationale supérieure d’art de Nice), where they obtained both a BFA and a MFA. Initially rooted in the visual arts, their practice has gradually shifted toward the performing arts, music, performance, and stage-based creation, within a resolutely transdisciplinary approach.
At the intersection of sound art, creative coding, scenography, video, and movement, Bastienne creates luminous, visual, and sonic landscapes, as well as immersive and performative dispositifs. Their work investigates the relationships between physical bodies and digital environments, modes of perception, and the politics of the gaze, with particular attention to narratives and sensibilities emerging from queer communities. Modular synthesizers, real-time sound processing, and digital technologies become tools to explore forms of spectrality, liminal spaces, and unstable states of presence.
In recent years, their practice has expanded significantly through collaborations with choreographers, performers, and visual artists, leading them to occupy hybrid roles as scenographer, sound artist, digital artist, and performer. These collaborations foster a collective approach to creation, in which disciplines contaminate one another and roles are continuously redefined throughout the creative process.
Smoke is a recurring material in their work, acting as a link between invisible sound, light rendered tangible, and the performing body. It becomes a vector of vulnerability and a transitional space between appearance and disappearance. Through works situated between construction and erosion, Bastienne explores notions of home, post-binarity, solitude, and collective nostalgia, inviting audiences into a sensitive, ethereal, and ephemeral experience in which queer phenomenology is constantly displaced and put under tension.