CONTACT

• 20 avenue Joseph Vidal
  13008 Marseille France
  +33 (0)6.87.74.70.11
• thesoftprotestdigest@gmail.com

ABOUT

• The Soft Protest Digest was an art and research collective founded by Jérémie Rentien Lando, Nickie Sigurdsson and Robin Bantigny.
• Curriculum Vitae

Landscape, soil, cheese and me

Headwaters

Preparation & Inauguration
of a naked soil strip

Spore & Pollen

The Soft Protest Digest,
Nederland edition

The Soft Protest
re-chewing & Digest

Waarom beginnen
met Stamppot?

Five new resilient
dutch dishes

The Confident

LANGUAGE

• Français
• English

FOLLOW

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• Soundcloud
• Wiki

SHOWS

June-September 2022

• Milano Triennale, cheeses in the French pavilion, Milan, Italy.

21th of November 2021

• Launch of the 4th issue of Hoot magazine by Gufo, at SOMA, Marseille, France.

September 2021

• “The cheese ripening initiative”, participation to the Food Art Film Festival 2021, Maastricht, Netherlands.

April 2021

• “Landscape, soil, cheese and me”, residency project at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.

May 2021

• “Headwaters - water extraction: our resource and their milieu”, participation in Food Culture Days, online, Switzerland.

February 2021

• “The Container”, participation in Urgency Intensive: IPACC 2021 (International Panel on Art and Climate Change), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.

December 2020

• “The Almond”, participation in Food Art Film Festival 2020, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

August 2020

• “Preparing a strip of bare soil, inaugurating a strip of bare soil”, SETU festival, Elliant, France.

March-September 2020

• Collaborative research project Soak until soft: a call for resilient recipes during containment, posted on Instagram.

November 2019

• “Spore & Pollen” for 
Le Banquet in the exhibition “Futur, ancien, fugitif”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

October 2019

• 6 course dinner and exhibition of “The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest” at Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam Netherlands.

April 2019

• Conference and tasting of “Le Tissé chaud”, for the 19th design Biennale of Saint-Étienne, France.

3rd and 4th of Feb 2019

• Exhibition of “Five new resilient dutch dishes” at fanfare, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

19th and 20th of Oct 2018

• Workshop and 3 course dinner for “Waarom beginnen met stamppot?” fanfare, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

As Adel Cersaque:

• (Robin Bantigny & Jérémie Rentien):



July 13th 2018

• Exhibition of Giant’s Yard’s blueprints for La Verrerie’s residency group show, CCCOD (Centre de Création Contemporaine), Tours, France.

November 2017

• Talk, exhibition of Giant’s Yard and screening of Featurette short film for Action publique / Public en action / Controverse event, happening during Public Innovation Week. Cité du Design de Saint Étienne, France.

February 28th 2017

• Adel Cersaque’s Giant’s Yard’s giant’s head for DEAR’s evening launch. Galerie de Multiples, Paris.

January 28-29th 2017

• Set design for “A Migrant Constituent Assembly”, in collaboration with french curatorial platform Le peuple qui manque. Centre Georges Pompidou, Auditorium. Paris, France.

Mid October 2016

• Online Launch of DEAR, project created by Adel Cersaque in collaboration with Caroline Ferreira, Claire Moulène, Cédric Aurelle, Gilles Drouault, Marie Descourtieux, Emmanuelle Lequeux and Clément Ducerf.

March 12th - July 30th 2016

• Exhibition of Please disable your Adblock for Giant’s Yard for group exhibition Social Food. Le 116, Montreuil, France.

March 1st 2016

• Exhibition of Giant’s Yard’s Giant Celebration Biscuit! Le Carmen, Paris, France.

From the 3rd to the 5th of June 2015

• Exhibition of The 17th L.A.S.T. Congress as guest artist for Carte Blanche, curatorial project by french artist Aurélie Pétrel Ateliers de la Cité des Arts, Paris, France.

From the 14th to the 19th of April 2015

• Exhibition of L.A.S.T. (Large Anthropological Simulation Trial), Salone Satellite, Milano Fiera, Italy.

From the 10th to the 12th of April 2015

• Exhibition and performance of L.A.S.T. 9th International Design Biennale of Saint-Étienne. Le Mixeur, Saint Étienne, France.

From the 6th to the 8th of February 2015

• Set design for the “Beyond the Magiciens effect” symposium, in collaboration with french curatorial platform Le peuple qui manque. Fondation Gulbekian, Paris, France. Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers, France.

From the 26th to the 28th of November 2014

• On Food and Negotiation. Guest lecturer for the Food Bonanza’s workshop Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Sandberg Institute Building, Amsterdam Zuid, Netherlands.

From the 12th to the 14th of November 2014

• Exhibition and performance of L.A.S.T. Bettencourt Schueller Fondation Show. École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, France.

25th of June 2014

• Exhibition of L.A.S.T., Intersections and other worlds short stories, and Onditout printed archives, Irish Institute, Paris, France.

From the 26th to the 29th of March 2014

• Exhibition of the Gov’Jam, une fiction politique workshop. Student’s works, Exhibition curated by Adel Cersaque La Générale, Paris, France.

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

• Jan Van Eyck Academie, 12 months residency, 2020, Maastricht, Netherland.
• M4 Gast Atelier, one month residency, January 2019, Amsterdam, Netherland.
• La Verrerie, one month residency, July 2018, Tours, France.
• Bettencourt Schueller Fondation. Giant’s Yard, 2015.
• CNC - dispositif pour la Création Artistique Multimédia (DICRéAM), Production 2014.
• Bettencourt Schueller Fondation. L.A.S.T. 2014.

PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS

• Issue #4 of Hoot magazine: interview with The Soft Protest Digest by Gufo, graphic design by Traduttore, traditore, 2021.
• “The whys and hows of the Soft Protest Digest”, essay published for french design magazine Azimuts #45, 2019.
• “About The Soft Protest Digest”, hour long podcast with fanfare Tetatet, January 2019.
• DEAR, Evening’s Launch in Les Inrocks’s Top 5 exhibtions of the week. February 2017.
• Adel Cersaque on the set design for “A Migrant Constituent Assembly”, Usbek & Rica, Online french publication. 2017.
• Adel Cersaque on the set design for the “Beyond the Magiciens effect” symposium, Le Journal des Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, yearly newspaper.
• Adel Cersaque on the set design for the “Beyond the Magiciens effect” symposium, L’Art-Même, Quarterly publication of the Belgian’s French community Ministry, 2015.
• Research and corpus for the development of Giant’s Yard Auto publication in Creative Commons, 2015.