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Emmanuel GRIMAUD (FR)
Scientist in Residency with Christiaan ZWANIKKEN
Biography Born in 1973 in Clamart (France), Emmanuel Grimaud is an anthropologist, film director and researcher at CNRS in Paris. His research explores non human forms of communication, perception and the frontiers of human technology. He designs anthropological forms of experiment, often radical and provocative, in order to question the limits of our anthropocentric view of the world. Along with the artist Zaven Paré, he designed a robotized interface of the god Ganesh, Bappa 1.0, which allows anyone to put oneself in place of a god and hold a conversation (Ganesh Yourself, Arte, 2016). And more recently, he worked with an Indian hypnotist and ghost hunters in order to investigate into the invisible layers of the city of Calcutta. His research often results in books like Le jour où les robots mangeront des pommes (2011) about japanese robotics, L'étrange encyclopédie du docteur K (2014) about indian astrology. He made films such as Le Sosie de Gandhi (2001), Cosmic City (2008), Kings of Kwaang (2209) on beetles in Thailand, Eau Trouble (2011) on fish, Black Hole (Locarno, 2019) about ghost hunting in Calcutta. He curated several exhibitions and especially Persona, strangely human (Quai Branly Museum, Paris, 2016) which was questioning in a new way Masahiro Mori's theory of the 'uncanny valley'.
"In fact we have no choice because landing on earth is a big challenge and an incredible creative booster as well, an ultimate test for our imagination. Arts and sciences have already shown how fruitful this collaboration could be to envision alternatives or unknown possibilities in a speculative way ("what if..?") but also to put into practice new possibilities that we have never thought of. In these troubled times, we require new methodologies, visionary processes, new protocols of experimentation. I think this alliance is not only a question of survival for disciplines that are so habituated to travel in their own parallel world. It's a practical issue for humans in many fields where we suffer from a lack of vision." |
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