Poésie Plate-forme DOCUMENTING?
Jérome Mauche welcomes Marie Voignier et Eric Wittersheim
Documenting ?
“Documenting?” is that same doubt shared by artist Marie Voignier and anthropologist Éric Wittersheim, when they respectively examine the cryptozoology of Cameroon and tourism in North Korea (Vognier), and the emergence of the organic food market in Vanuatu (Wittersheim). Through their works, particularly their films, they explore objectivity by combining formal processes, scientific approaches, and also the power of fiction, in non-Western contexts.
Marie Voignier | is an artist and filmmaker.
After studying science and then art, she directed primarily medium-length and feature-length films exploring the conditions of representation. Her films have been screened at international art and film festivals (Berlinale, documenta, Venice Biennale, Singapore Biennale), at art centres (most recently at LAXART in Los Angeles, the Beirut Art Center, and ARGOS in Brussels), as well as in exhibitions in France and abroad (in 2019: “Kino-Glaz” at BBB in Toulouse and “Modes of Encounter: An Inquiry” at the Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou).
Her mains films are Tinselwood (2017), Tourisme international (2014), Les Immobiles (2013), Le Terrain était déjà occupé (le futur) (2012), Un peu comme un miroir (2012), L’Hypothèse du Mokélé-Mbembé (2011), Hinterland (2009), Au travail (2008) and Le Bruit du canon (2006).
In 2017, she published “La piste rouge. Colonisation, travail forcé et sorcellerie dans le Sud-Est camerounais” (B42/Marcelle Alix) with support from the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard and the CNAP.
Marie Voignier is represented by Marcelle Alix gallery, Paris.
Éric Wittersheim | is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker.
His PhD thesis “, defended at the EHESS in 2003, offered a critical reinterpretation of debates surrounding the invention of traditions in Melanesia and the production of politics. He has also examined football supporters and neo-rural populations in France. In addition to numerous articles, he recently published or coordinated the books “Filmer (dans) le Pacifique” (with Jessica De Largy Healy, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 2019), “Introduction à l’anthropologie du politique” (with Riccardo Ciavolella, De Boeck Supérieur, 2018), “Supporters du PSG. ), “Villes invisibles. Anthropologie urbaine du Pacifique” (with Dorothée Dussy, L’Harmattan, 2013).
Some of his work is dedicated to producing and directing ethnographic films, which have won awards at festivals in France and abroad. His main films are Man Vila (co-directed with Cécile Kielar, 2011), Le Salaire du poète (2009), Grassroots. Ceux qui votent (2003), Allers-retours à la terre (co-directed with David Quesemand, 1997).
He is an assistant professor at the EHESS (“Anthropologie de l’État en Océanie. Ville, migrations, territoires et globalisation”) and directed the IRIS from 2016 to 2018.
Furthermore, he produced a new French translation of the complete “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle (Omnibus, 2005-2007).