From 10 to 15 November 2026, the International Performance Art Festival of Martinique (FIAP) holds its 5th edition. It is devoted to a discipline still little known to the general public on the island: performance art. The official opening takes place on Thursday 12 November at 6 p.m., at the Tour Lumina in Fort-de-France.
A festival founded in 2017
FIAP Martinique is co-directed by artists Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut, who founded it in 2017. It offers in situ performances, encounters, workshops and philosophy cafés, with artists from the Caribbean and other parts of the world.
The Caribbean as a critical lens
For this edition, the festival examines contemporary issues through Caribbean realities, their histories and their imaginaries. Four themes run through the programme:
- caregiving and care practices;
- queerness and LGBTQIA+ identity;
- relationships with the Afro-diasporic and Kalinago worlds;
- the links between human beings and nature.
For the first time, the festival launched an open call.
Passing on knowledge and bringing audiences together
The festival also reaches out to students of the Campus Caribéen des Arts (CCA). It brings together artists, fine arts students, high school students, audiences with restricted access, curators and art critics. Two public professional days are planned:
- the first is devoted to the festival’s artists;
- the second is theoretical and focuses on this edition’s themes.
The participants
Three guest curators:
- David Démétrius, a curator and art critic from Guadeloupe;
- Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, writer and exhibition curator;
- David Tenorio, professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Four artists:
- Frekwéncia, an Afro-Brazilian multimedia artist born in Rio in 1997, whose practice is guided by àṣẹ, the life force in Yoruba thought;
- Aez Pinay, artist, videographer and performer, who studies and works in Amsterdam;
- Mario Barrantes Espinoza, an artist of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan origin, a graduate of P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium;
- Helio Volana, who lives and works between Paris and Antananarivo.
Previous editions
- 2017: the 1st edition, in Fort-de-France, with performances at the Savane des Pétrifications, the Bibliothèque Schoelcher and the pedestrian street;
- 2019: artists and curators from China, the Caribbean, the Americas, Canada, Russia and Europe;
- 2022: the theme “Martinique, an ecosystem in precarious balance?”;
- 2023: an exhibition at the Archives territoriales de Martinique.
📍 Official opening: Thursday 12 November, 6 p.m., Tour Lumina, Fort-de-France.
Source: FIAP Martinique 2026 press release and press kit.
