Anne-James Chaton

Open List of portraits to create:

ambassador, bailiff, baker, banker, bodyguard, broker, bus driver, cashier, cellar man (wine merchant), clerk, controller, delivery man, doctor, farmer, fireman, fisherman, florist, garbage collector, gas station attendant, grocer, hostess, illegal worker, IT officer, locksmith, mayor, minister, model, model, MP, newsagent, postman, printer, prison warden, prisoner, retail worker, salesman, senator, sex worker, tax inspector, teacher, trainer, TV presenter, waiter, webmaster, window dresser.

Portraits realised:

accountant, an expert in gambling, architect, art director, artist, athlete, barrister, bartender, biologist, bookseller, brigadier, business consultant, butcher, carpenter, chef, choreographer, coffee roaster, conservator, contractor, dentist, deputy prosecutor, designer, director of a crematorium, director of the funeral home, editor, electrician, electrician, employee, engineer, film director, finance manager, fishmonger, florist, gallery owner, graphic designer, guitarist, head of business, housekeeper, insurer astronaut, jeweler, journalist, judge, kindergarten teacher, law professor, Lawyer specialised in associations and foundations rights, legal expert, actress, MD, musician, nurse, paramedic, photographer, plaintiff, plumber, poet, policeman, priest, producer, project manager, projectionist, publicist, script writer, secretary, security officer, singer, social worker, steward, teacher, translator, unemployed, union worker, visual artist.

Anne-James Chaton is a French artist, poet, author and curator, working as a writer, performer and a collaborator with musicians, choreographers, artists and alike.

His visual and sound works, drawn from his writing materials, have been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. Anne-James Chaton also founded the festival Sonorités in Montpellier (France), and recently directed the project RADIO at Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

He has published several books since 2008 and joined the German label Raster-Noton in 2011 with Evénements 09 and Décade (with Andy Moor and Alva Noto) released in 2012 . On the Dutch Label Unsounds he released an album with the post-rock band The Ex in 2008, and developed a duo with its guitarist Andy Moor (Transfer, 2013). He worked on the albums Unitxt (2008) and Univrs (2011) by German artist Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. In 2013 he began a collaboration with singer and composer Nosfell and formed the trio HERETICS with Andy Moor and Thurston Moore, guitarist and singer of Sonic Youth.

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