Through his use of language, Benjamin Efrati develops a transmedia universe. In his installations, he showcases his different practices such as performance art, film making, sound art and music, graphic design as but also video game development. Born in 1985 in Geneva, he studies philosophy in Lyon and develops his practice at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is currently a doctorate student at EHESS, where he works on the representations of Prehistory in video games. He lives and works in France.
2022
⇝Après Sapiens : les représentations de la Préhistoire dans les jeux vidéo évoluent-elles ?, lecture at Rendez-Vous du Jeu Vidéo BnF, 28/11/2022
⇝Of Catastrophism and Natural Theology in Video Game Dystopias, lecture at the 5th Georges Cuvier Symposium, 20/10/2021
⇝De la survie à la gestion : déluges et monstres sous-marins dans les jeux vidéo préhistoriques, lecture at theRendez-Vous de l’Histoire, Blois, 07/10/2022
⇝Musical Synergies, lecture at Viborg Animation Festival, 27/09/2022
⇝Gugusophone Arboricole, interactive installation,Back To The Trees Festival, Saint-Vit, 25/06/2022
⇝ Temps profond : lire le présent à l’aune du passé, conference with Jean-Sébastien Steyer, Elisa Caron-Laviolette, Alix Desaubliaux et Clare Mary Puyfoulhoux, EHESS/CRAL, 02/06/2022
⇝ Paradi(c)e : immersive installation+VR experience, in duo with Shu Isaka, at Garden of Ψ・Dream of Φ, exhibition curated by Ayako Mino, Next to Hojo Komuten Gallery, Tokyo, 19-27/03/2022
⇝ Amok, original soundtrack for Balazs Turai’s animated short, Boddah Production
⇝Oligarchia – Season 2, soundtrack for Balazs Turai’s animated web-series, Partizan, Hongrie
⇝ Deep Time : la Préhistoire au temps présent, conference with Claudine Cohen, Yann Le Jeune and Fleur Hopkins, University of Chicago’s Center in Paris , 21/01/2022
2021
⇝Oligarchia – Season 2, soundtrack for Balazs Turai’s animated web-series, Partizan, Hongrie
⇝Faux Positifs, artist in residency, installation and performance at Le Vivarium, Rennes, 1-14/11/2021
⇝Libraries Burn Slowly, experimental documentary short, soundtrack by Wassim Halal
⇝Amok, soundtrack for Balazs Turai’s animated short, Boddah Production
2020
⇝ The New Kid, original soundtrack for Arnaud Dezoteux’s feature film (2020)
⇝ Hebraic Fantasy, electronic jewish prayers, EP as Psygnozo (2020)
⇝ Louis Sade live at The Owl’s castle, musical performance, Centre d’Art Les Églises, Chelles (2020)
⇝ Gnozo : Automatic Information Processing, digital album
⇝ Gnozo & Wassim Halal, performance, 30/01/2020, Institut Français, Budapest
⇝ Le Complexe Jeanne d’Arc, installation with Miracle and Zina, 02/02/2020, Institut Français, Budapest
2019
⇝The Gnozo Show, monthly web-series, online
⇝ Gnozo : Fossil Songs, performance / digital album, 29/03/2019, Maison Populaire, Montreuil
2018
⇝ The Gnozo Show #2, performance, 17/11/2018, Databit.Me Festival, Arles
⇝ Mat vs Atari, performance with Fabien Fromont, 14/10/2018, FRAC Normandie Rouen
⇝ Le Galéisme, performance, 5/10/2018, Nuit Blanche Kyoto, Yôkai Soho
⇝ The Gnozo Show #1, performance, 20/06/2018, MOCO, Montpellier
⇝ The Fall of Rome, original soundtrack for Balazs Turai”s animation short
2017
⇝ La Bible du Xénoxénisme, interactive installation, 07/10/2017, Nuit Blanche 2017, Paris,
2016
⇝ Quelques Mots sur Rudolf Clausius, performance, 25/11/2016, Maison Populaire, Montreuil
⇝ Xenoxenism Bus Tours, performance, 16/10/2016, Galleria Continua, Paris
⇝ Xénoxénisme, performance, 13/07/2016, Le Magasin – Grenoble
⇝ Comment fabriquer un Gugusophone? radio piece, 09/06/2016 , France Culture
⇝ Pan Dort, installation, 2/12/2015 -14/02/2016, Maison des Arts, Malakoff.
2015
⇝ L’Expérience Statistique, performance, FIAC, Paris
⇝ Reise der Ohren, performance, with Nao Nishihara, Ryuhei Fujita, Marin Esteban, 20/01/2015, Tokyo Wonder Site / Bethanien KunstQuartier, Berlin
⇝ Procession, performance, with Miracle, 4/01/2015 , Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2014
⇝ Colored Black Box, installation, with Marin Esteban, 21/10/14-04/01/2015 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
⇝ Gugus 4, installation multimédia, avec Balazs Turai, Diego Verastegui, Petra Marjai, 30/10/2014 – 02/11/2014 Jeune Création, Le Cent Quatre, Paris
⇝ La Carotte et le Bâton, performance, 18/06/2014, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
⇝ Interconférences, installation vidéo, 30/04/2014 – 28/05/2014, Salon de Montrouge
2013
⇝ Objets, Corps, Choses, exhibition, with Samson Sylvain. 31/05/2013 Institut Français, Tokyo
2011
⇝ De l’économie poëtique à la significatogénèse, performance with Noel Sarlaw,02/07/2011, Monnaie de Paris
2008
⇝ Merjom Climacus, performance, 07-08/06/2008, Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève
Revue de Presse
⇝ Dossier de presse – Février 2020
Online interviews (french :
⇝ Conversation with Marion Zilio, Revue Possibles, supplément vidéo, mars 2020
⇝ Beaux-Arts, vous avez dit Beaux-Arts?, Libération, 14 Mars 2014