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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Francis Alÿs: Children's Games

Francis Alÿs: Children's Games

Alys, Francis
Fox, Lorna Scott
Medina, Cuauhtémoc

Paperback

Film & Video ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 8419233528
ISBN13: 9788419233523
Publisher: Rm
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

An updated archive of Alÿs' long-term study of children's enduring need for play

Published with MUAC.

Since 1999, Belgian multimedia artist Francis Alÿs (born 1959) has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world. Children's Games is an ongoing archive of the urban practices that modernity has banished from everyday life, as the concepts of public space and free time have grown increasingly distorted by the domination of motor vehicles and electronic diversions. Many of these videos were shot in economically underdeveloped regions of the world, where the strength of tradition and community have allowed the shared life of a childhood on the street to survive. The children's games that Alÿs captures gesture toward a threatened underground culture crossing generations and borders. Their rules, images and references suggest an ancient, potent substrate underlying our shared experience.

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