Item 0064 - Festin

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ES OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0064

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Festin

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  • 2002 (Accumulation)
  • 1997 (Creation)

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Research project dedicated to critical examination of contemporary culture and society through video. Founded in 1993 in post-Olympic Barcelona, emerging from La 12 Visual, an independent video association created by filmmakers including Nuria Canal, Joan Leandre, and Toni Serra. Since 1996 it has organized research projects and video screenings at the CCCB and MACBA. In 2004 its archives received the National Cultural Heritage Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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How to escape from the trap? How to fight the monster of need that makes you lose your human shape, that itch that you can?t stop thinking about and makes that you dependent, a prisoner of consumption, a slave to an artificial paradise? All these questions are taken from the books of William Burroughs, a drug addict until he finally escaped the horrors of addiction at the age of 50. In his introduction to ?The Naked Lunch?, Gérard-Georges Lemaire, referring to Burroughs, wrote: "..he was wildly interested in control techniques in the widest sense, from the Maya Code, which he discovered in Mexico, to the manipulations of the mass media, the CIA and different American sects?. William Burroughs is a tireless defensor of the free will of human beings subject to all kinds of coercive systems, some totalitarian, others more subtle, more sophisticated, that take possession of the human being through perverse and intimate channels: such as desire, for example".

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copyright. Permisos: premsa, catàleg, itineràncies

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      images/posters/162_0194_Festin_naked_lunch.jpg

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      2005: Resistencias - Archivo resistencias

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      Allégorie, Hommage, Littérature, Poésie

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      Proyecciones: 1 (2005) — Resistencias

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      festin

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      Language(s)

      • Catalan

      Script(s)

      • Latin

      Archivist's note

      els seu videoes estan distribuits per Heure Exquise .. alli estan online .. pero molt baixa qualitat

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