ÜBM Junior

Born in 1972, Michael Cros lives and works in Marseille, France. Transdisciplinary artist, he combines puppet art, contemporary dance and digital art in his work. His creations materialize on stage, on screen or in the form of an exhibition. Graduated from the Fine Arts of Marseille and Lyon, he joined La Méta-Carpe in 2003.

Year after year, he developed technical skills linked to the mediums he uses. He also acquired expertise in directing artistic projects and in implementing collaborative and creative processes, notably with the TJP CDN of Strasbourg-Grand Est and its Rencontres Internationales Corps Objet Image. Influenced by the Ecological Humanities, he affirms the art-science dimension of his creations by inviting anthropologists, ethologists, and philosophers to join his artistic teams. Because sharing knowledge is important to him, he often invites different types of audiences: children, students, disabled people, amateurs of all ages, to contribute in his artistic reflections and actions.

For more than ten years, a figure has regularly returned in his work, made up of hybrid, mechanized, and vegetal bodies: the Dark People. In a more and more worrying environmental context, he questions with these strange creatures our human condition, as well as our links with existing others, whatever their scale. Between threatened species, would there be a common future to invent?