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donderdag 15 april 2010

Bachar File (#17) - The Atlas Group



Walid Raad is writing a history of contemporary events in Lebanon, a seemingly comprehensive essay using video, the Internet, performance, collage, and digital photography, not to mention prose in English, French, and Arabic. Given its scope and the obsessive nature of the cataloguing, it's not surprising that Raad has enlisted help in the form of the Atlas Group, a foundation comprising various individuals and institutions, some of which exist independently of their relationship to Raad and some of which don't. That is, the Atlas Group is real, but some of its components are made from a fictional fabric.
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2 opmerkingen:

  1. a must see video, a lot of reality in it! the webpage itself kills it a bit: we can feel the urge and the need to connect to us, because we need to get his - story, so the message the message is still the message not the medium. martien? can you put yourself in the same situation?

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