Can You Hear Me?

In this episode, I take you to New York for Bastille Day, wearing my sandwich board with a question: I’m Looking for the French, Do You Know One?

Through encounters and conversations, I meet French people living abroad and Americans who love France. Between pétanque, food and the unexpected familiarity of hearing French in New York, their stories make me reflect on what we carry with us when we leave home, and what draws us to someone else’s country.

I came looking for the French. Along the way, I found a little bit of home.

English voice: Giselle Hobbs • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this first episode of Season 2, I take you behind the scenes of I’m Looking for the Centre Pompidou, a participatory, documentary and performative project developed with the Centre Pompidou during its closure.

Through performances, encounters, interviews and actions across several partner locations, I set out to look for a Centre Pompidou without a building, following the people, communities and places that continue to bring it to life.

The project culminated on July 2, 2026, at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, during POP’Arty, the annual event for Centre Pompidou members.

I thought I was looking for the Centre Pompidou. In the end, the Centre Pompidou found me.

English voice: Giselle Hobbs • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this episode, the story of The First Buyer continues.

After proposing to a collector that he become the first buyer of her work, Carole Pelé returns to the conversation at the center of the project.

Not a transaction. A shift in direction.

What happens when the artist chooses first?

Who decides when the value of an artwork begins to exist?

Moving between conversation, uncertainty, and projection, this second part follows the evolution of a relationship that gradually becomes part of the work itself.

Some things remain intentionally undisclosed.

English voice: Julie Baird-Smith • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this episode, I begin telling the story behind The First Buyer.

Not an artwork that already exists. But the moment before it does.

I decided to choose someone as the first buyer of my work. He doesn’t know it yet.

A collector. But not a transaction.

A conversation. A possibility.

In this episode, I go to his apartment for the first time to record our conversation.

The artwork hasn’t begun yet. But it might begin there.

English voice: Julie Baird-Smith • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

I come back to New York.

And something has changed. The city is no longer just a place. It feels like a conversation.

Snow falling over the streets. The Empire State Building in the distance. Moments that appear without warning.

Each time, the connection grows deeper. Less like a visit. More like a call.

Something inside me keeps returning here.

Not loudly. But with certainty.

English voice: Julie Baird-Smith • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this episode, I talk about why I love New York.

Not the skyline. Not the movies. Not the fantasy. Something else.

The way the city moves. The way it demands clarity. The way it makes you stand a little straighter.

Between French and English, I follow what happens when a place changes your rhythm. When you feel slightly out of control, but deeply aligned.

New York doesn’t promise anything. It doesn’t wait for you. It doesn’t explain itself. And maybe that’s why I keep going back.

Not a guide. Not a postcard.

Just an exploration of desire, scale, and the quiet shift that happens when you decide to expand.

English voice: Julie Baird-Smith • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this episode, I talk about good intentions.

The ones we make for ourselves, especially when a new year begins.

With my friend Claire, we talk about expectations, pressure, and the quiet gap between what we plan and what actually happens.

Not a guide. Not a list of resolutions. Just a conversation about trying, failing, adjusting, and staying present.

Guest: Claire Lestang • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

In this episode, I talk about something new for me.

For the first time, my body asked me to slow down. A short hospital stay interrupted my rhythm. Not something dramatic, but enough to shift my pace and my attention.

This episode is quieter. Less movement, more listening. What happens when you can’t keep going the way you planned? It’s about recovery, vulnerability, and presence. Not as a break in the story, but as part of it.

Sometimes, a pause is not a setback. It’s how the journey continues.

Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

New York. A sandwich board costume. A question: I’m looking for a gallery. Do you know one? Some people look away. Others stop. The city tests me, challenges me, and somehow keeps pulling me forward.

This episode captures a week of risk, hope and stubborn belief, the moment I realised that recognition begins long before anyone says yes. It begins the second you dare to show up.

English voice: Julie Baird-Smith • Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien

After "I’m Not Here to Introduce Myself", I continue following the thread of my voice, the one that searches, asserts itself, and learns to be heard differently.

In the heart of art school, I found the strength to explore song as an artistic material in its own right, somewhere between intimate creation and the confrontation of the music industry.

An episode about freedom, risk, and the joy of truly letting your voice be heard.

Voice recording and mixing: Éléa Koch • Jingle and opening theme: Clémentine Brien