Theo Hakola
From 14 March to 6 June 2018

Born in 1954, Theo Hakola was raised in Spokane, Washington. After Antioch College in Ohio and the London School of Economics and a time as political organizer (U.S. Committee for a Democratic Spain, New York, 1975), he settled in Paris in 1978 where he started a band (Orchestre Rouge – two albums) followed by another one (Passion Fodder – five albums) with which he moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Returning to France in 1995, he continued to make music “solo” (seven albums with the last one – I Fry Mine in Butter! – released in 2016), staged his play La chanson du Zorro andalou (1999-2000), and published five novels with his last – Idaho Babylone – coming out with Actes Sud in 2016.