Voodoo Spartachiade Times: Phenomenology of the Total Performance of the People
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Category:
EVENT
Type:
presentation / screening
Keywords:
communism / fiction / history / mass media / performance / sport / video
Creation Date:
2001-06-11
Language:
English
Description:
Spartachiades were a collective sporting event organised in several countries within the Communistic Block in Eastern Europe every four years from the ‘50s until the ‘80s. They were supposed to be the demonstration of enthusiasm, success, unity, physical fitness and loyalty of the People. (...) This short video captures images from one of the Czechoslovakian Spartachiades and confronts them with the current sober situation of the Strahov Stadium and the recent political context. The Stadium was the location of the camp for the guests who came to demonstrate against the IMF/WB meeting last September.
The deconstructed gigantic architecture on one of the Prague hills serves as a metaphor and symbol of the history of totalitarian structures of the 20th century Utopia, as well as witness to the emergence of the new myths and fictions we are part of... (M.V.)
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Original Title (English):
Voodoo Spartachiade Times: Phenomenology of the Total Performance of the People
Location:
Budapest, Francia Intézet / French Institute
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