Phoenix Atala is a trans, transversal, transdisciplinary French Moroccan artist, invested in decolonial and queer practices, speculative and transformative futures. He explores, chops down, wrongs up cinema, performance, stand-up comedy techniques, the uses of speech, the genre of web series, rap and so on. More often than not, and more and more so, Atala works collectively and collaboratively.
Following a residency at the art and research center Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and at the Palais de Tokyo, Phoenix Atala is working on Critical Failure, a meta-oriented SF flm-conversation, in which a queer, racialized community of android-resistant artists use voguing as a tool for self-piracy and autodetermination; Queer Time, an autotuned spiral vocal performance that explores non-linear temporality in quantum leaps and bounds; ; and الصدى كافي) echo café) a speculative scenario through North African temporality, collapsing experiences of three generations of artists in the fantasy of an utopian café, where book swapping met music listening and mint tea drinking.
Currently guest professor at the Institut Kunst Gender & Natur in Basel, where he is conducting pedagogical experiments on queer temporality, collaborative work and decentralized production/show spaces.