MER EST CALME (LA)

URGENCE (3 ÉTAT)

of MARQUILLY Pascal

FRANCE, 2005, 00:14:17

Production : Avec le soutien de l'Atelier Vid�o Art Plastique, EDITIONS DE L'ANONYME, LES SANGS CAILLOUX
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Allegory, Sound creation, Experimental, Memory, Work, Violence

Summary :
"I am telling you, my hands hurt so much, my hands disgust me so much. However, I like my hands so much. I feel that I could do things with them. Still, it is difficult for me to bend my fingers. My skin is peeling off. I do not want to tear it off, Peugeot will tear it off. I will fight to prevent Peugeot from tearing it off me.... "
These lucid words pronounced by a worker in the 70s still resound particularly nowadays. From the relocation of workers to the full control of them. From the workers' hands to the barely perceptible hand of power�
A video stemming from an interdisciplinary creation process titled "Urgence(s)" (Urgency) which questions the role of the artist in city life.

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