David Legrand is a French transdisciplinary artist born in 1972 in Châteauroux. Trained at an experimental art school in Châteauroux in the late 1980s and subsequently at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, he has developed over more than thirty years a practice encompassing video, performance, installation, speculative writing, virtual reality, and experimental pedagogy. He operates between Biarritz and Bourges, and has been described as a pioneer of collective and experimental art. In 1999, together with Fabrice Cotinat and Henrique Martins Duarte, Legrand co-founded La Galerie du Cartable, a nomadic video collective working in schools, rural areas, and alternative contexts. In 2013, he founded Hall Noir in Bourges, a cooperative studio-school connected to the Rencontres Bandits-Mages and the Antre Peaux network, which functioned as an active hub until 2021. Since 2022, this initiative has continued as Base Hall Noir, a nomadic structure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Since 2019, he has been developing the Metaverse of Collaborative Arts, a constellation of interconnected virtual worlds co-developed with young artists, coders, and programmers.
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