KADIST – Résidence Tallard

From September 5 to 27, 2026, KADIST’s Résidence Tallard hosts the dancer, choreographer and performer nora chipaumire.

For her Paris residency, the artist will develop a period of research, encounters, and conversations around embodiment, memory, and post-colonial imaginaries. Conceived as a space of work as much as of hospitality, the residency accompanies the different strands of her Paris project and fosters new dialogues between artists, researchers, institutions, and audiences.

Guest of honor at the Festival d’Automne 2026, nora chipaumire unfolds her carte noire between La Ménagerie de verre and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, where performances, public debates, and installations compose an unprecedented journey through the city.

As part of this collaboration, KADIST also presents, in partnership with La Ménagerie de verre, an exhibition conceived by nora chipaumire drawing on the KADIST collection. Installed in the venue’s common spaces as part of the Double Takes series, this selection brings together works by Beverly Buchanan, Caspar Heinemann, Kapwani Kiwanga, and Chris Wiley, extending the questions running through her work: the body as archive, colonial memories, diasporic narratives, and forms of resistance.

carte noire at the Festival d’Automne

This year, the Festival d’Automne entrusts its Carte blanche to nora chipaumire, who transforms La Ménagerie de verre into the beating heart of the festival for the first three weeks of the edition. The project will then continue at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, where it will conclude with the Festival at the end of December.

What bridges can be built between Harare, Dakar, and Paris? What dialogues can be imagined between these three cities, their histories, and their presents? It is from these questions that nora chipaumire conceived this carte noire, an invitation to bring performance, critical thought, music, film, literature, and visual arts into dialogue with one another.

Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, nora chipaumire now lives between Berlin, New York, and Harare. A major figure on the international live art scene, she explores movement as a form of expression that goes beyond the limits of language. Since her first piece, Chimurenga (2003), her work has interwoven aesthetics and politics, questioning colonial legacies, Black bodies, power relations, and contemporary forms of freedom. Her work, which also extends to film and installation, has received numerous distinctions, including three Bessie Awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship.