Polypolis Brussels, 2000, Italy, colours, 5’33”  ed 3 + 2ap

Polypolis project consists of the same performance piece, The Winning Mummies, made in different European Cultural Cities Capitals in 2000, and of the videos taken from them. The Winning Mummy is a person who tries to be socially successful, but his life is completely suffocated by prisons of duties, conventions, hypocrisies and stress…

 

The performance took place in Brussels on a day when the city was paralyzed by the truck drivers strike who had blocked all main roads of the city.
This coincidence has interfered with the performance piece and it also accentuated and dramatized the content.

The video result is also the portrait of Brussels in a new dimension. The city is almost surreal with huge avenues blocked to traffic, sit in of trucksdrivers and police everywhere.

 

 

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