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Francois Bucher

Haute Surveillance

Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 36:0 | Colombie, USA | 2007

This video develops from a real event that took place during a theater seminar in the masters degree program at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Columbia. The seminar occured uring one of the university`s worst periods of violence. Two students in charge of a presentation on the life and work of French author Jean Genet decided to play a hoax on their fellow students - a hoax that involved an armed kidnapping. Their idea was to perform the ethos of Genet`s work rather than to represent it in a conventional way...

François Bucher is an artist from Cali, Columbia, who lives and works in Berlin. He combines a variety of media and sources to consider power, violence, and geography. His work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo shows as installations and single-channel pieces. He also co-founded and co-edits Valdez magazine.