{"id":445,"date":"2024-09-27T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafemmecoupeeendeux.fr\/spectacles\/france-phantom\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:34:01","slug":"france-phantom","status":"publish","type":"spectacles","link":"https:\/\/lafemmecoupeeendeux.fr\/en\/spectacles\/france-phantom\/","title":{"rendered":"France-Phantom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00abToday your memories are worth gold\u00bb<\/p>\n\n

This world\u2019s cornerstone is the invention of the Dismemoriser, a groundbreaking technology that can receive and store a person\u2019s memories. Using it everyday is a prerequisite to insure a successful return to the living. Made in France, the Dismemoriser is a capitalistic tool that provides payment for each memory deposited. In order to insure national stability, any representation of human faces is forbidden. For obvious attachment reasons (for instance the memory of a loved one), filming, taking pictures or painting faces is no longer in allowed. France-fant\u00f4me\u2019s universe created a new cultural era, a futuristic iconoclasm: the Ninth Scopic Revolution.<\/p>\n\n

I wish to talk about discourses. About the way each of our society\u2019s institutions \u2014 State, market, intellectual community, religious institutions \u2014 manages to take hold of a world\u2019s rules in order to establish their power. How does the charm of these discourses operate? In such dystopia, what spaces could be used for an uprising?<\/p>\n\n

would also like to talk about bodies. What is the mystery of embodiment? What is it like, to \nlive in a body one has not chosen? France-fant\u00f4me can also be read as an allegory for our \nworld\u2019s digital mutation. A lightning, attractive, but also obscure, allegory. I wanted to deal \nwith algorithms and data in the manner of gothic poets, the first science-fiction writers: they \nI used the sublime to talk about the invention of electricity, of storms and natural disasters. \nThe sublime encompasses both the horror and the fascination one feels when faced with an \nuncontrollable, overwhelming power<\/p>\n\n

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France-fant\u00f4me is a story of love and propaganda. It is also a woman\u2019s impossible quest. \nV\u00e9ronique is looking for her life\u2019s missing picture the way some would search for the face of God. This show is my naive and sensitive attempt at finding singularity, humility, universality and sacredness in every single human face. A “mastery of faces”, to paraphrase L\u00e9vinas. The religion of our time may be love, but nostalgia will be the religion of the future. I wrote \nFrance-fant\u00f4me as a distorting mirror for my life and as the worlds\u2019 negative film. A negative is a photograph\u2019s embryo, its upside down; even if the colours are inaccurate, each shape is perfectly recognisable.<\/p>\n\n

Tiphaine Raffier – 2017\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u00a9 photo<\/em> : Simon Gosselin<\/p>\n\n

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