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of CAIRASCHI Gérard, JOURNIAC Michel
FRANCE, 1983, 00:15:00
Production : Avec la participation du CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, JOURNIAC Michel
Genre : Filmed action
Keyword : Allegory, Body art, Body, Performance
Summary :
"The body is the locus of all the brandings, all the wounds, all the traces. The tortures, the social classes' taboos, the violence of powers dispersed but never abolished are imprinted on the flesh. Only the outcast create nowadays. Because it is their bodies speaking, expressing the refusal" (Excerpt from the text read by Michel JOURNIAC at the beginning of the action ). An action which took place in 1983 at the National Museum of Modern Art (Centre Georges Pompidou), during which Michel JOURNIAC stages a dramatic ritual and publicly brands himself on the arm with a red-hot iron triangle, the mark of the outcast. Action by Michel JOURNIAC, photography by Gérard CAIRASCHI, editing by Michel JOURNIAC and Gérard CAIRASCHI. Performers : Michel JOURNIAC, Eric BOSSE, Michel CANIVET, Antoinette DIMANCHE and Sabine ROSAN.
Original language : french
Original format : video
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Chroma : Couleur
Available version(s) : Version originale française.
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