D. Kimm

An interdisciplinary artist active since 1987, D. Kimm is known for her avant-garde and daring creations. She has published four collections of poetry, including La Suite mongole. Her performance and electronic music duo Mankind (with Alexis O’Hara) has performed at various festivals and produced the album Ice Machine (2009). She has also directed several short films, all of which have been screened at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. D. Kimm has been collaborating with photographer Caroline Hayeur since 2014, notably on the exhibition Abrazo, a photo and video project on tango, and on the film Un Jardin la nuit, shot over a period of five years with hunting cameras.

D. Kimm is the general and artistic director of Les Filles électriques, a company she founded in 2001. She has directed the Festival Voix d’Amériques and has been directing the Festival Phénomena since 2012. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Union des écrivains et écrivaines québécois (UNEQ) literature festival, for which she staged dozens of literary and interdisciplinary performances.