109 - Grande Halle

HyperMnémosyne

Elsewhere in the Flow of Images

An installation by Pierre Giner
With the participation of Yuka Tokuyama
Juste Emard and Damien Baïs
Soundtrack: Playdoh

Based on a proposal by Nathalie Amae
with the complicity of Villa Kujoyama

“HyperMnémosyne is an immersive video exhibition that plunges visitors into a unique and endless cinematic experience”.

Nights, days, temples, parking lots, pachinkos, cities, countryside, forests, lakes, trains, passers-by, passengers or sleepers… An account of how the first Europeans met the surprised Japanese, the first filmed images of Japan by an envoy of the Lumière brothers, visions of Tokyo and the electronic future of images by Chris Marker, Warhol’s iconic video cassette advertisement, the first video game for the blind, webcams of the Fukushima disaster… Pierre Giner turns over his travel diary, made up of tens of thousands of short sequences captured during his stays and travels in Kyoto and Japan, using cell phones and pocket cameras, in search of the first image, the astonishment, the déjà vu.

It invites us to move around on the theme of movement and presence in the world, in a geographical and temporal elsewhere that in reality reveals an interior of intimacy and the relationship we maintain with that which is outside ourselves.

The exhibition is a Media Mix Project linked to a program of random video sequences edited in real time and never repeated. In this way, viewers are invited to take a stroll and create their own memories, to experience the exhibition as if it were a film.
The exhibition’s design draws on a variety of media at different scales, and on different image production technologies, to extend the subjective poetics, stories and aesthetics promised by travelogues in the literary sense of the 16th century.

+ Atmosphères simulées

A proposai by Justine Emard et Damien Baïs

The proposal initiated by Pierre Giner integrates the long-term project imagined and designed by Justine Emard and Damien Baïs. The project includes a workshop for art school students, immersing them in the imaginary world of the Game through the notion of landscape, the environment and the capture of reality. Literally putting our hands in the Games also enables us to revive a collective practice of conceptualizing the question of the screen, in a relationship to the intimate.
This project, presented to the OVNi public in an interactive, multi-projection format, is accessible on the online platform: atmospheres-simulees.itch.io/

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