GRENZE / Lectures of the Capital by Karl Marx // video performance

GRENZE consists of sequences called ARTIFICIAL UNITS OF DEVELOPMENT (AUD) that correspond to drawn notes made during my readings of Capital. For each AUD there is a corresponding fragment of the text by Karl Marx. Some of the AUD are 2D animations, image by image - called idiotic motions, whereas others reproduce more complex real and metamorphic movements created with a 3D software.

In Capital, Marx often uses the words: shapes, motions, mechanisms, divisions, new circumstances, organic limits, transformations, revolution. He describes the worker as a very imperfect agent in the production of a continuous movement. The French translations of Capital are written in a very polished, always very vivid and abstract style, even conceptual. I have thus developed a series of figures and forms to respond to this language. In GRENZE, capital is represented by a cube called cube-capital that is in perpetual transformation. The larva represents commodities, whereas the workers are represented by a triangle, the workers-figure, which transforms as they grow poorer. ....

video: http://fofana.free.fr/videonew/grenze-1.html

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