The Real Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions

Installation-performance, 2012. Various dimensions 5x3m – duration: 12 mn –

Conception artistique et performance : Magali Desbazeille
Production : Ville de Saint Nazaire-EMAP, ESBANM, Cie ASAP
Développement : Philippe-André Béna
Graphisme : Valentin Delawarde

About what new technologies do to communication, conversation, language, museology, audio guides, loss of memory… the obsolescence of communication devices from the 1970’s, 80’s, 90’s… and maybe more…

Teaser, galerie des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire


Description

The Real Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions is an installation, a publication and a performance, combining documentary and retro-fiction. In contrast with its “do-it-yourself” esthetics, “The Real Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions” offers a detached and benevolent viewpoint on digital communication, and raises questions about memory, forgetfulness and conversation…

In 2137, in a museum of folk arts and traditions, an exhibition room presents over-modernity. After antiquity (the invention of writing) and modernity (the pre-eminence of reason); memonuity (the digital externalization of human memory) which appeared at the end of the 20th century, was a transitional period leading up to our 23rd century.

Performance

The performance is more autobiographical, titillates the sense of smell with, among other things, the manufacturing of telephones and chocolate.

installation view
detail
detail
The visitor activates the keys of the telephone-console to see and hear instructions, pronounced out of sequence. The museum voice alternates between realism and fiction.
performance view
chocolate phone cooked by the performer