{"id":2877,"date":"2025-12-21T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/150mdaltitude.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:59:49","slug":"noor-sharina-grondin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/150mdaltitude.com\/en\/noor-sharina-grondin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Noor-Sharina Grondin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It all starts with a LinkedIn post. Nothing too spectacular, on the surface. I saw some buzz around Noor-Sharina Grondin, I read it, I quickly understood, and without overthinking it \u2013 which is often the start of good or bad ideas \u2013 I added her and wrote to her. A pretty simple message: Would you like to do a residency in Martinique?<\/em><\/p>\n

Said like that, of course, it makes you question things. Someone you don't really know, based far away, offering you a residency somewhat out of the blue... it could look like either a great opportunity, or something a bit suspect. And then, most importantly: this offer perfectly matches what she's looking for. Coming to Martinique for her thesis research. And sometimes, when reality aligns a bit too perfectly with desire, you wonder if you truly deserve it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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So, we take our time. Several video calls, discussions, adjustments. And then, at some point, she says yes.<\/p>\n

A little while later, she is there. In Martinique. The same day that Gareth Taylor<\/span><\/span> Scene. Two residents passing each other at the airport, taking a photo, almost like an improvised handoff. It\u2019s beautiful, but also a bit hectic. Probably the kind of situation you experience once and then look back on with a smile, saying, \u201cOkay, we tried that.\u201d.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Quickly, one understands that this residency will not be conventional. No deliverables, no tangible object to produce. A territory. Noor-Sharina is a researcher; she works on shatta, and I... let's just say I'm not exactly the most qualified person to talk about it for hours. Which makes the situation quite interesting: I'm not here to explain it to her, but to enable her to meet. To open doors, create conditions, support. And sometimes, simply to be present.<\/p>\n

We eat together, we move around together, we string appointments together, we talk\u2014a lot. And without really realizing it, something is settling in. A kind of shared daily life. After her return, she writes to me that we lived together. And that's exactly it. Not a long-distance residence, not a succession of fragmented moments, but a dense, continuous, almost total immersion.<\/p>\n

We traverse places, people, contexts. Tropiques Atrium<\/span><\/span> To begin by setting the scene, there's the university, exchanges with the dean, discussions with his thesis advisor. And then, most importantly, the field: Blicassty, R\u00e9gi, PSK, Ven'L, General Shizzle, VLG Rocki. Names, but more importantly voices, presences, realities that give substance to his subject. With each encounter, something becomes clearer. And I, in passing, discover a part of my own culture that I actually knew very little about. It just goes to show, sometimes you have to accompany someone to learn yourself.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At some point, you come to laugh about it. Common references, manga, video games. And without really knowing how, I find myself in a position of senpai<\/em>. Not official, not claimed, but present. A position linked to the territory, to experience, perhaps to the age difference. Something simple, natural. And strangely right.<\/p>\n

What this residency has taught me is quite clear. I had already understood what this tool could do for us: create, structure, transmit. But I had not yet measured what it could do for others. Very concretely. Accompanying research work, facilitating fieldwork, accelerating encounters, making possible what would otherwise have taken months. Not intentions. Conditions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The word that remains is perhaps this one: edifying.<\/p>\n

Since then, Noor-Sharina has continued on her path. Invited on France Inter<\/span><\/span>, publications, visibility. And somewhere, part of that trajectory passed through here, in this somewhat suspended moment where everything aligned without it being entirely planned.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, this residency produced nothing visible. No objects, no forms. But it produced something real. Connections, access, movement. And for me, a very simple idea: sometimes, sending a slightly too direct message on LinkedIn is exactly what was needed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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