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“what we are about to do is actually quite simple”
Francis Alÿs When Faith Moves Mountains Inserting video into the blog practise. Francis Alÿs Watercolour Watercolour Taken from: http://www.francisalys.com/public/watercolor.html
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Can an artistic intervention truly bring about an unforeseen way of thinking? Can an absurd act provoke a transgression that makes you abandon the standard assumptions on the sources of conflict? Can those kinds of artistic acts bring about the possibility of change?”
“Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political, and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic” ‘His project at Zwirner focuses on a border. In June 2005 Mr. Alÿs walked from one end of Jerusalem to the other carrying a can … Continue reading
Francis Alÿs – A Story of Deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nHlkB7nsRI “Since 2000, Alys has visited an area in the Mexican countryside where tornadoes occur, and has filmed his attempts to run into the eyes of the storms. The footage was gathered over a decade and edited to make the … Continue reading
Francis Alÿs
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/francisalys/ Rehearsal I (El Ensayo), Tijuana, 1999-2001 Rehearsal, a 30-minute performance on video the Francis Alys filmed on the outskirts of Tijuana. To sound of one of the town’s brass bands, the driver of a battered red Volkswagen Beetle repeatedly tries and … Continue reading
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Tagged deception, fail, fail again, fail better, Francis Alÿs, mexico, question, rehearsal, video
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