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MARIE–PIERRE BONNIOL Excerpt of the video Volatile, 2019, 09:35 https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/volatile PORTFOLIO 2014-2020
Biography and statement
Marie-Pierre Bonniol (*1978, Marseille, France) is artist, curator and producer. She’s
graduated in Visual arts from the University of Aix-Marseille, and Aesthetics and Sciences
of art from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Active since 1993, at first with
fanzines, and then with many different projects, her current main research subjects are
experimental film, energy, shifts of perception, glitches and the myth of Bachelor machines,
with a general interest in media archaeology, poiesis and hermeticism.
Her artworks, programmes and exhibitions have already been presented in several
institutions such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, MUDAM in Luxembourg, Lieu unique in Nantes,
Consortium in Dijon, CAPC in Bordeaux, Pointculture in Brussels, Palace in St.Gallen,
Dampfzentrale in Bern and the National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Never too far from books and documents, obsessed by certain novels (Borges’ Fictions,
The Invention of Morel), literary processes (Raymond Roussel, WG Sebald, Arno Schmidt)
and dispositives (The Museum of Innocence), her practice takes the form of videos,
photographs, drawings, installations, assemblages, programmes and texts, through
dispositives, collections, projections, imaginary structures and fictions that have been
quoted by the writer Enrique Vila-Matas in some of his texts.
Transdisciplinary, her work has multiple entries (literature, visual arts, experimental film)
and follows, in its acts, the adage of the Argentinian writer Fogwill on “writing to not be
written”, in a general sense of self-determination, self-realization and responsability.
Often collective, her work includes since 2020 a collaboration with her son Walter Duncan,
born in 2012, within a general articulation of a part of her work with her family life, in an Contact
experimental, political and feminist perspective. She’s also the founder of the art and
Marie-Pierre Bonniol
music agency Julie Tippex and lecturer for Node Center in curating and production. +49 151 21 26 11 08
mpb@studiowalter.com
She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. http://mariepierrebonniol.com
Korridor
Excerpt of the video Korridor, 2020, 01:16
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/korridor
Confined in their flat in Berlin March 2020, a mother and her 7 years old son direct a short fantastic movie using their clothes
hanger, a shiny hula hoop and a lamp, transforming their corridor into a ghostly and experimental place, inhabited by gamelan
sounds. This film is is my first collaboration with my son, Walter Duncan, already behind some short animations. This work
is part, since April 2020, of the Berlin Jetzt! collection of Stadmuseum Berlin. It’s also been part of a programme of Re:Voir
(Paris) and is part of the official selection of Long Distance Film Festival (June 2020, USA), in partnership with Kinoscope.
Volatile
Excerpt of the video Volatile, 2019, 09:35
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/volatile
Volatile is a short experimental movie edited around the fake synthetic music done with the voice only of Stine Janvin, and her
track Glitch. The film is made with images collected over a year on the idea of volatile, a term which covers in French both the
volatility in chemistry and everything which flies, blow or is related to the air. Building an abstract narrative which mixes natural
and artificial elements as the music of Stine Janvin does, Volatile is also a contemporary portrait of cities landscapes in their
tension between nature and urbanization. Premiere screening at Dampfzentrale, Bern, 2019.
Transports
Excerpt of the video Transports, 2018, 15:50
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/transports
In French, the notion of Transports covers the field of transportations as well as the one of mystics and altered consciousness
states, especially when love is at work. This film, shot between France and Germany, Bern and Porto Alegre, explores the
movements, especially the vertical ones from rise to fall and forth, when these states occur, transforming all perceptions into
potential transforming spaces. With the music of Pierre Bastien, Narassa, Gamelan Voices and Lawrence (DIAL Records).
Transports
“When the eye of Deleuze and Guattari blinks, it is swollen as
a lock. Their book is a displacement of voluminous waters, at times
released as a torrent, at times stationary, working below, yet always
moving and in waves or currents and countercurrents. What is at
stake is not a significance but an energetics. The book provides
nothing, it rouses a lot, it transports everything. It is a pantograph
that takes electric energy on the high voltage line and transforms it
into the rotation of wheels on rails, for the traveller into landscapes,
into daydreams, into music, into works that are in turn transformed,
destroyed, carried away. The pantograph displaces itself very
quickly. This is not a book of philosophy, that is to say, of religion.
Not even the religion of those who no longer believe in anything,
the religion of scripture. Writing is treated rather as a machinery: let
it absorb energy and let it metamorphose it into the metamorphic
potential of the reader.”
Jean-François Lyotard, extract of Energumen Capitalism,
1973, translated by Vlad Ionescu, Peter Milne and
Herman Parret, 2019.
Excerpts of the video Transports, 2018, 15:50
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/transports
Museum of Transports
Installation of 56 photographs, C-Prints, 135 x 177 cm, 2019
Museum of Transports is a photographic series consisting of 56 photos organized as 28 diptychs proposing a statement on
how Transportation, in 2019, is shaping our physical spaces and mental landscapes. The series proposes an archaeology of
transports in a moment of history where their use becomes a matter of ethics. Based on a vernacular approach to images,
the photographic series transfers transports objects and environments to a Museum frame. Assembled as a collection, the
artwork aims to propose a poetic and reversed reading of transports infrastructures, which can also be a constraint for the
free circulation of bodies.
Wasser
Excerpts of the video Wasser, 2019-2020, ongoing work
Wasser is a movie currently being produced on hydraulic forces, the different states of water and the dispositives
to transform flow into energy as a possible figuration of what is at stake in the doing of an artwork, from subjective
flow to form, through dispositives and belief. The making of this movie already received the support of Le Bel
Ordinaire (Pau, France) and Dampfzentrale (Bern, Switzerland) with two residencies.
Wasser
Excerpt of the video Wasser, 2019-2020, ongoing work
The Bourges triptych
Excerpt of the video Babylone, 2018, 01:13
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/babylone
The Bourges triptych is a series of 3 short movies, Austerlitz, Bourges and Babylone, exploring, though
the video media and the use of music, the possibilities of short sets of images to become mysteries.
Music by Kraus.The Bourges triptych Excerpt of the video Austerlitz, 2018, 02:55 Excerpt of the video Bourges, 2018, 00:52 https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/austerlitz https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/bourges
Frames and Motors
Excerpt of the video Le cadre / The frame, 2018, 01:21 Excerpt of the video Trois moteurs / Three motors, 2018, 01:55
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/lecadre https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/troismoteurs
The Frame and Three Motors are two short video poems shot in Berlin in a short period of time, trying
to explore through still and almost still images the fixations at work in obsessional states, as well as the
accelerations arising when strong emotions occur.Berlin Nuit
Excerpt of the video Berlin Nuit, 2018, 15:30
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/berlinnuit
A winter diary in Berlin, following a stay in Buenos Aires in chase of shadows, chasing this time sources
of light in the dark Berlin winter night, visiting also some places where people do work and do their
things. With the music of Asmus Tietchens as Hematic Sunsets, Jan Jelinek as G.E.S. and Four Alto.The Shadows of Buenos Aires
Excerpt of the video Quiet Motors, 2017, 01:24 Excerpt of the video Siluetas / Silhouettes, 2017, 02:28
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/quietmotors https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/siluetas
The Shadows of Buenos Aires is a portrait of the Argentinian capital city through its shadows and silhouettes in
four chapters filmed and released in 2017, as a supplement to the exhibition Chapter of shadows presented at
the National Library of Argentina in November et December 2017. Music by Pierre Bastien and Eduard Altaba.The Shadows of Buenos Aires Excerpt of the video Ciudad / City, 2017, 02:13 Excerpt of the video Ciudad / City, 2017, 02:13 https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/ciudad https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/ciudad
The Salon of Wonders
Excerpts of the video Le Salon de la magie / The Salon of Wonders, 2017, 02:31
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/salon
In a Parisian living room, during the big summer storms of 2017. A child, with his baby brother, turns
boredom into a playful and fictional field, with imaginary ghosts.The Surface and the Substance
Excerpts of the video The Surface and the Substance, 2018, 03:14
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/surface
A bachelor machine of two bodies that are not yet totally distinct.
Video dedicated to Jean-François Lyotard, music by David Cunningham.
Premiere screening
ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2019
Official selections
• Bideodromo Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, 2019 (finalist)
• Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Lisbon, 2019 (finalist)Bachelor Machineries
Somos máquinas solteras / We are Bachelor machines, 2017, 10:10 Excerpt of the video Machinerie Morel / Morel machineries, 2014, 36:13
https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/somos https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/machinerie
Video made in collaboration with Pierre Bastien (music and visuals) An attempt, for the manifest exhibition of Collection Morel at PointCulture
around the text We are Bachelor machines as presented for the exhibition in Brussels in 2014, to represent the imaginary at work through a series of
Chapter of the Shadows at the National Library of Argentina in Buenos more than 900 fragments of thoughts on space and movements organised
Aires. Spanish version. as a cards play, display and rythmic. Music by Pierre Bastien, movie made
with Mariette Auvray. Video in French.The Bachelor machines
Partial installation view of The Bed-Studio, installation, Le Lieu unique, Nantes
http://collection-morel.com/nantes/lit/
Installation presented during the exhibition of Collection Morel on Bachelor machines held at Le Lieu unique
in Nantes in February and March 2016, including a fiction written especially for the exhibition, The Hotel of
the Green Ray and a wall of drawings presenting «an imaginary collection of books, just presented by the
covers, as a night time library of stories only written in our pre-sleep time» (interview for The Quietus, March 2016).The Bachelor machines
Exhibition view of The Hotel of Motors, digital prints, 40x50 cm, Le Lieu unique, Nantes
http://collection-morel.com/nantes/silent-motors/
Artwork on dioptrics at work in the notion of Bachelor machines as developed by Michel Carrouges, with the
figuration of the flow and circuits possibly circulating in the Hotel of the Green Ray, an abandoned palace in
Cerbère, France, on the other side of the border of Port-Bou in Spain where Walter Benjamin died.The Bachelor machines
Partial installation view of The Bachelor machines cabinets, 2016, Le Lieu unique, Nantes
http://collection-morel.com/nantes/vitrines/
Display, through 4 cabinets, of books, images and documents around the Bachelor machines notion with a narrative
evolution, from Duchamp's Large Glass, Michel Carrouges' researches and Raymond Roussel's writings to a more organic,
feminine and ethical reading of the notion.Collection Morel Manifesto exhibition
Exhibition view of The walls are forests, 2014, installation, PointCulture, Brussels
http://collection-morel.com/bruxelles/
Entrance wall of the exhibition for the first invitation of Collection Morel to occupy a space at PointCulture in Brussels in
Belgium in 2014. The manifest exhibition was presenting an installation, a video, drawings as silk-prints and wall painting,
a fiction and a talks programme on the topic of relationships between space and the imaginary.Collection Morel Manifesto exhibition Partial installation view of Le lieu déplié /The unfolded place, Le Temps / Partial installation view of the video Morel Machineries, 2014, installation Time, 2014, silkprints, 50x65cm, Brussel http://collection-morel.com/bruxelles/chambre http://collection-morel.com/bruxelles/schemas https://vimeo.com/studiowalter/machinerie
Books, prints and paper artworks selection
Solo screening programmes
Marie-Pierre Bonniol 2019 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Traumathek, Köln, Germany
Born 1978 in Marseille, France Arkaoda, Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin Komma, Esslingen, Germany
Tiff, Leipzig, Germany
Festival MV, Consortium, Dijon, France
mpb@studiowalter.com
Théâtre Berthelot, Montreuil, France
mariepierrebonniol.com
Screenings in collective programmes
2020 Fluxus programme (online), Re:Voir, Paris, France
Naïma Unlimited daily video programme, Paris, France
Long Distance Film Fest, New York, USA
2019 Bohren und der Club of Gore, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
Bideodromo International Film and video festival, Bilbao, Spain
(finalist)
Education Lisbon Rendez-vous, Lisbon, Portugal (finalist)
2000 DEA (Master 2) with highest honors in Aesthetics and Sciences Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
of Art, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France 2018 4/40 Extracts of Beauty, Ausland, Berlin, Germany
1999 Maîtrise (Master 1) with highest honors in Visual arts (history, 2017 Extracts of Blue, Espace d’en Bas, Paris, France
theory, practice), University Aix-Marseille, France
1995 Baccalaureate in Literature, specialisation in Visual arts, Residencies
Marseille, France 2019 Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
Le Bel ordinaire, Pau, France
Solo exhibitions
2017 Collection Morel / Chapter of the shadows, National Library of Funding / Grants
the Argentinian Republic BNMM, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019 Musikfonds, Germany
2014 Collection Morel / Manifest exhibition, PointCulture, Brussels, Die Beauftragte der Bundersregierung für Kultur und Medien
Belgium Deutschland, Germany
2017 Gastrecht, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Collective exhibitions APCd Foundation, Marly, Switzerland
2016 Collection Morel / The Bachelor machines, Lieu unique, Nantes, 2014 Architecture’s University La Cambre Horta / ULB, Brussels,
France Belgium
2004 Ephemeras, CNEAI / Point Ephémère, Paris, France 2008 CreateKX, London, United-Kingdom
Fanzines, France Fiction, Paris, France 2004 Centre National du Livre, France – yearly until 2008Collections Teaching
Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2020 Lecturer for Node Center of curatorial studies, Berlin, Germany
BNF (French National library), Paris 2002 Guest lecturer, Irma / Paris X Nanterre University, France –
La Fanzinothèque, Poitiers, France until 2004
Guest lectures at Angers’ University of Law, University Lyon II,
Publications: literature and artist books (selection) Clermont-Ferrand, France
2020 Fiction Allemande, Collection Morel, Berlin, Germany 1999 Art theory teacher, Avignon’s art school, Avignon, France
2018 Une Bibliothèque / A Library, Derrière la salle de bains, Rouen, 1998 Studio assistant, Audiolab Villa Arson (national art school),
France Nice, France – until 1999
2014 The Society of Aestheticians, Collection Morel / Disco-Babel,
Paris, France
Curating (programmes and exhibitions, short selection)
2006 Nothing But A Chickenheart, dir. Christophe Fiat, Mission
2017 Imaginary musics, Palace and Nextex, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Impossible / CNEAI, Chatou, France
2016 Collection Morel / The Bachelor machines, Le Lieu Unique,
2002 American Prayers, dir. Vincent Pécoil, Les Presses du Réel,
Nantes, France
Dijon, France
2015 Carte blanche to Julie Tippex (co-curating), Do D!sturb!, Palais
Jack, Grinchs & XLR, dir. Pascal Santoni, Alexandre Périgot, Le
de Tokyo, Paris, France
Crestet Centre d’Art, France
Bachelor Machines / Four programmes, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2001 [litterature anthology], dir. Mathias and Jean-Jacques Pauvert,
2008 Futuresonic, music programme, Manchester, United-Kingdom
La Musardine, Paris, France
2005 Mobile (associated curating), FRAC Ile-de-France / City of
1997 Astrolab (artist book on mail art), Les Crevettes au pastis,
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Aix-en-Provence, France
2000 Institution and artistic direction of Nouveau Casino, Starball,
1993 Fanzines (Supersonic Jazz, Zik-Zine) – until 2000
BBmix festival, DIY Boogie, Disco–Babel, Julie Tippex,
France – since 2000
Talks and readings
2017 We are bachelor machines, Semaine du Bizarre, Théâtre
Memberships
Berthelot, Montreuil, France
• Member since 2017 of C-E-A/Associated exhibition curators, France
2016 On fanzines, Lieu Commun/Les Abattoirs, Le Printemps de
• Member since 2018 of BBK/Professional association of Berlin’s
Septembre, Toulouse, France
visual artists, Germany
2008 On Sonic Youth, Brest’s Art School/La Carène, Brest, France
• Member since 2019 of Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker/
2003 Popisme, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
Association of German Art Historians
2002 University of Visual Arts, Aix-en-Provence, FranceTexts, press, mentions, interviews (selection) • Wilfried Paris, On est allés visiter l’exposition Les Machines
Célibataires, The Drone, France
2020 • ARD1-Das Erste /Live nach Neun morning news (interview)
• Olivier Lamm, Avant d’aller faire un tour au Lieu unique, The
• TIP Berlin, Les Ateliers Claus, Pirate Care, B10 live, 444
Drone, France
2019 • Enrique Vila-Matas, La sombra de Cravan in Echo Images • Florence Pagneux, La mécanique des machines célibataires,
[Les imatges eco], Isaki Lacuest’s catalogue, Bòlit, Centre La Croix, France
d’Art Contemporani, Girona, Catalonia • Alexandre Prouvèze, La semaine bizarre ou comment Montreuil
• Enrique Vila-Matas, El año (Duchamp) en ciernes, El Paìs, ressuscite l’esprit Dada, Time Out, Paris, France
Madrid, Spain • Enrique Vila-Matas, Il militante della finzione (mention),
• Caspar Lösche, Roger Ziegler, Volatile (interview), A66re6at, Il Manifesto, Italia
Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland • De drôles de machines au Lieu unique, Ouest France,
• Residency texts, Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau-Billère, France France
2018 • Thierry Dufrêne, L’Invention de Morel, cat. (mention), Maison 2015 • Enrique Vila-Matas, Secretas y no tanto, El Paìs, Spain
de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France
• Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Diamants sur étagères, Le 2014 • Nicolas Giraud, Collection Morel, La Critique, France
Littéraire, France Corinne Leborgne, Les Esthéticiennes : Traité d’harmonie,
Lobe Temporal, France
2017 • Pablo Gianera, Una danza de sombras que se mueve en la • Wilfried Paris (interview), Chronicart, France
imaginación, La Nacion, Argentina Pierre Hemptinne, Collection Morel: Partage de points
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Máquinas solteras: Una solterada de sensibles, Détours, Belgium
Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Ayudante de Vilnius, Spain • Pierre Hemptinne, Une collection de lieux et sa petite
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Máquinas solteras: Segundo capitulo de musique obsessionnelle, Belgium
un trafico de sombras, Ayudante de Vilnius, Spain • Anne Mattheeuws and Pierre Hemptinne, special programme
• Musik zu Bilderwelten, St.Galler Tagblatt, Switzerland on Collection Morel, RTBF, Belgium
Ghislaine Lejard, Michel Carrouges un auteur “à la croisée • Bénédicte Dekeyser, Collection Morel (video interview),
des chemins”, Recours au Poème, France Théâtrez-moi, Belgium
• Il est précieux de se souvenir des lieux qui ont compté pour
2016 • Tim Wilson, A Night Time Library, The Quietus, United-
nous, Vif Focus, Belgium
Kingdom
• Vincent Arquillière, Collection Morel, Espèces d’espaces,
• Thomas Baumgartner, De l’usage adapté de la mécanique
Citazine, France
sonore (radio interview), France Culture, France
• Jean-Jacques Palix, Collection Morel, Beyond the Coda,
• Charlotte Farouault, Les machines célibataires, la partition de
France
tous les possibles (radio interview), SUNfm, France
• Association Georges Perec, Bulletin number 65, FranceYou can also read
