Bio / Jean-Paul Roux Devin
John Paul Devin-Roux, visual artist, videographer, photographer, designer and sometimes director and screenwriter.
After graduation (cycles 1 and 2 / photography and video art) to Ensba of Lyon, a graduate film and video mounting (Ceris-Paris), training university education "development scenario" at "the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris", Jean Paul Devin-Roux works in the 80s, the mounting ethnographic documentary films under the direction of Julian Pappe (Magic-films) and the restoration of the first pre-cinematic cartoons Emile Reynaud for the National Archives film. (Bois d'Arcy)
In the 90s, he regularly attends contemporary dance as a video artist and designer.
He met Kazuo Ohno in Avignon (one of the founders of butoh dance) and Min Tanaka, and he made several stage sets with emerging Japanese artists (artists performers, visual artists, musicians) at galleries and other places in Paris, Avignon, Brussels.
Sometimes videographer, sometimes designer, he also directed three documentaries trials, a series of "Haiku - visual", performances and video installations. His work is presented in public art centers, galleries, festivals and "video art meetings", others more discreet, or to private individuals.
Group exhibitions (selection)
2015 : Salon d'art contemporain MAC PARIS 26 au 29/11/2015 Installation vidéo sonore " SEUIL(S)"
2015: Solo exhibition / Galerie MAPRA-LYON - from 06 to 26/09/2015
2015: "Place of Sense, Sense of Place" - People "Traverse Video" Toulouse - March 2015
2014: Rencontres Internationales Paris / Madrid / Berlin - December 2014 (video selection)
2014: Contemporary Art Show 2000 Mac / Mac Paris - November 2014 (video selection)
Poetic and digital moments - Marseille - November 2014 (video selection)
Vidéoformes - Clermont Ferrrand - March 2014 (video selection)
Season Video - Lille - May 2014 (video selection)
Tampere short film 2014 "From there,slowly approaching"
2013: The Foundry / Le Mans "Threshold (s) Project" - Video installation / Dance
Rencontres Internationales Paris / Madrid / Berlin - December 2013 (video selection)
Video Festival in Osaka, Japan - French Alliance (video selection)
"Images passages" Annecy video selection
International Short Films Oberhausen - Selection "Transit Express"
Fair Barcelona Loop Festival - Selection "Transit Express"
Vidéoformes - Clermont Ferrand - March 2013 (video selection)
2012: Poetic and digital Moments - Marseille - (video selection)
Video Festival Tokyo - French Alliance - (video selection)
"Kyoto Urbanguild" - French Institute (video selection)
"Arte Video Night 2" - Lyric Gaiety Paris
2010: Galerie Vivienne Paris police Irina Ionesco (video selection)
Espace Electra / Video Installation "Electric Flow"
Thailand New Media Art Festival
Poetic and digital moments - Rio de Janeiro (video selection)
Residence creation
2015: "Pure presence, resonance" - a piece for dancer and several characters (Théâtre Charles Dullin -
Chambéry)
2013: "Project Threshold (s) - From there, Slowly approaching" - The Foundry / Le Mans - Theatre Raft -
Video project - scenography - Installation
Video works and installation(s)
"Threshold (s) - Video Installation" (Teaser) - 2'40 - 2014 / HDV
"On That Side" - 5'07 - 2013 / HDV
"The Unanswered Question" - 4'45 - 2013 / HDV
"Threshold (s) - From there, Slowly approaching" - 24 min - 2013 / HDV
"Transit Express" - 5 '30-2013 / HDV
"Where your gravity? "- Video installation (Teaser) - 2'40 / HDV
"Hidden behind - 5 '33-2012 / HDV
"My back, spun Kamo River ..." - 8 min - 2012 / HDV
"Double Harmony" - 8 min - 2012 / HDV
"Doki Doki - Haiku videos 1/5" - 6'27 - 2009 / HD
"The Bath" - 2'14 - 2008 / HD
"Video, I see half ..." - 2'49 - 2007/2008 / HDV
"Ghost with white dog" - 0'42 - 2007 / DV
"Yin / Yang" - 5 min - 2006 / HDV
"Nocturnes" - 5 min - 2006 / HDV
"Kimonos ballet" - 2'40 - 2006 / HDV
"Red Room" - 5 min - 2005 / HDV
"Streamer" - 3 min - 2004 / DV
"Electric Flow" - Installation (video version - 3 minutes) - 2005 / HDV
"Triptych - Installation» 2004
"Mansion - Installation" - 2001
Filmographies
"Travel diary / India 2008" - 26 mn - jpr.prod 2008 / HD
"The Friend of the House" - 52 mn - Alif Productions 2002 (essay on
Persian miniature)
" Les filières de Trévoux "- 52 mn - Alif Productions / France 3/2003
" Trance Dance - Performance '- 13' 24-1990 (16mm)
" Atsushi Imoto, sculptor " - 52 mn - jpr.prod / Miwa Imoto - 1990 (16mm)
" Kazuo Ohno " - Chapel Celestine - Video test performed at the Avignon Festival in 1990
"The Operator or the darkroom trap " - 15 mn - Magic Movies 1989 / 16mm
" Letters to Milena " (after Franz Kafka) (Clavis Film) 1989
" Down to Earth " - 6 min 1989 (16 mm)
" Frame Output " - 7 min - April Films 1987 / 16mm