Screening and discussion
Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi
Dance films: "Ghost Party (2)" and "Persona"
10 Dec 2022
10 Dec 2022
The event is over
The Centre Pompidou invites Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi to present their collaborative work with the projection of two of their films, followed by an encounter with the two artists.
In Ghost Party (2), De Boer and Laâbissi create little fictions with vases, stones and other materials, while giving voice to texts by ghosts from their shared genealogies, like Marguerite Duras, Serge Daney, Casey and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. In this polyphony of voices and accents, their beings blend into the others, subtly questioning the politics of language and identity.
Performance, visual arts and film mingle blithely in Ghost Party (2). In this heterogeneous form, voices, bodies and objects appear in a different light each time, thus highlighting the fundamental theme of transmutation and creation.
Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi, Ghost Party (2), 2022. HD video, colour, 4/3, 2022, 58 min
Cinematography: Charlotte Marchal
Additional cinematography: Léo Lefèvre
Vases (in order of appearance): Lygia Clark, Donald Winnicott, Valeska Gert, Oskar Schlemmer, Oum Kalthoum, Beyoncé, Martha/Dan Graham, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hélio Oiticica, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Hijikata Tatsumi, Mina, Frantz Fanon, Jack Smith, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Delphine Seyrig, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Latifa Laâbissi, Manon de Boer, Lina Bo Bardi, Maya Deren, Alain Cavalier, Marguerite Duras, Anne Carson, Angela Davis, Octavia Butler, Chantal Akerman & Casey
Editing: Manon de Boer
Sound, sound editing: Laszlo Umbreit
Sound mixing: Laszlo Umbreit & Rémi Gérard at Empire Digital
Graphics: Goda Budvytyte
Produced by Auguste Orts & Figure Project
Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi, Persona, 2022. HD video, colour, 4/3, 31 min
Face concept and design: Nadia Lauro (2012)
Cinematography: Léo Lefèvre
Camera assistant: Alexandre Cabanne
Grip Corentin: Geisen
Lighting: Thomas Bojan & Ludovic Rivière
Sound recording, editing and mixing: Laszlo Umbreit
Editing: Manon de Boer
Calibration: Paul Millot at Cobalt
Produced by Auguste Orts & Figure Project
Supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund & Arts centre BUDA
Persona takes a cinematographic view of Écran Somnambule (Sleepwalking Screen, 2012), a performance by Latifa Laâbissi, itself based on the film Mary Wigman tanzt (1930), an excerpt from her first great solo, Hexentanz (Witch Dance, 1926). In Persona, camera movements communicate and circumscribe a physical experience of the disruptive power of the masked figure.
Biographies
Manon de Boer
Manon de Boer's work is pervaded by the experience of time. Solidly anchored in the conditions of creation, an extended experience of time that constantly produces a present and a presence, resisting a normative, functional and productive conception of time. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale (2007), the Berlin Biennale (2008), the São Paulo Biennale (2010), at documenta (2012), and at the Taipei Biennale (2016). With recent solo exhibitions in the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (2020), the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum in Ghent (2022), the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2022) and others.
Latifa Laâbissi
Blending genres, redefining formats, Latifa Laâbissi's creations bring on-stage multiple off-stage perspectives featuring figures and voices. Since 2011 she has directed Extension Sauvage, an artistic and educational programme in rural Brittany. Along with Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin, she created La nuit tombe quand elle veut (Night Falls Whenever It Likes, 2021) which toured in Europe and Brazil. She participated in a commission of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine commission for the centenary of the Swedish Ballet with Fugitive Archives (2022), a piece for eight dancers. Following a first duo with Antonia Baehr, Consul et Meshie (Consul and Meshie, 2018), still on tour, they are preparing Colours and Numbers for 2023.
Where
Petite salle, level –1
When
10 Dec 2022
Manon de Boer, Latifa Laâbissi, Ghost Party (2), 2022
© Courtesy the artists