As part of the actoral festival.
Conceived as a nocturnal dive combining field recordings, testimonials, sound creation and live readings, Matière (black, white, blue) seeks to shake up our ambiguities by giving flesh to what is invisible to us: our connected lives rely on the labor of men and women who extract the ores of which our digital tools are composed.
Némo Camus' subject is mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known for the wealth of its subsoil in rare metals and earths - copper, tin, cassiterite, cobalt and coltan, to which has now been added lithium, nicknamed white gold. The extraction of this metal, essential for the manufacture of electric batteries, contributes to the devastation of the land and the exploitation of the bodies - particularly in Manono, the capital of Tanganyika province, where one of the world's largest lithium reserves is located.
Matière (black, white, blue) is also a place for reflexive research into the documentary gesture, and the implications of an approach taken from a white, Western position: who "takes" sounds, "harvests" stories? Is there such a thing as sound extractivism? And if so, how can we thwart it?
For the Festival actoral, Némo Camus invites artist Maya Mihindou to enter into a dialogue and share this space-time.
Delegated production
Le Bruit et la fureur & deuxtempstroismouvements
Coproduction
Écolo ; le Bureau International Jeunesse ; iMAL ; GMEM
Support
Ateliers Picha, la Bellone, Institute for Colonial Culture (ICC), Phonurgia Nova
Special thanks to
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Maarten Vanden Eyden, Marjolijn Djickman, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein and Gulda El Magambo from On-Trade-Off. Thanks to Bibiche Takana, Prosper Zongwe and Arlette Panu of Picha, as well as Caroline Berliner and Estelle Lecaille.
Némo Camus
Némo Camus is an artist based in Brussels. After studying cinema and sociology, he turned to sound creation and joined INSAS. His work is firmly rooted in the practice of sound recording. He is specifically interested in the entanglement and gaps between intimate narrative and historical document in the context of contemporary memorial issues. His work takes the form of radio creations, sound installations, performances and films. For performance and visual arts, he collaborates with Pélagie Gbaguidi, On-Trade-Off, Joëlle Sambi, Esther Mugambi, Robson Ledesma, Aïssatou Ciss, Sophie Sherman and Davide Tidoni. His work has recently been presented at GMEM in Marseille, iMAL in Brussels, Framer Framed in Amsterdam, the Biennale de Dakar and the Bienal Internacional de Dança do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. He gives sound creation workshops, notably at the Université Paris 8.
Maya Mihindou
Maya Mihindou works to tell a long story, through editorial practice, drawing or photography. She listens to present voices and archives, and works on the various scales of the book. From Marseille, she contributes to various independent magazines (Mille Cosmos, Ballast, The Funambulist, Plurivers) and for L'Humanité. Since 2021/2022, she has accompanied the exhibition dedicated to director Sarah Maldoror. For Éloge de la submersion, an art and science exhibition project initiated by Denètem Touam Bona with Compagnie, in Marseille, she illustrates a collection by Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Non-noyées (Burn-Août, November 2024). At the same time, Seul le sol , an illustrated book for young people, was published. In it, she takes a graphic approach to the principle of sedimentation. Born in Gabon, in a land exploited by multinationals for fossil fuel extraction (oil, gas) and forest timber, the principle of sedimentation is a process that frames her work in various ways. It's important to him to be able to bring to life and vibrate this organic and cosmopoetic substratum of the soil that carries us, collectively, and with which we dialogue without ceasing.
Friche la Belle de Mai (the Module)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Duration
55 min.
Prices
€12, €8, €6
Némo Camus
design and production
Maya Mihindou,
Némo Camus
texts and performance
with the voices and participation of
Kasongo, Jaquie, Dieudonné, Solange, Alpho, Landri, Kilulwe, Tchude, Claudine, Donatien, Jeannie, Bibiche, Nelly, Emmanuel, Samy, Célestin, Crispin, Vincent and Jean-Paul
Ilunga Wa Ngoy Ilus
accompanying persons
Elvire Ménétrier
scenography
Éric Morel
mixing and spatialization