Algerian Artists Write the Video Body
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.
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In Stridences Sangcommentaires? [Bloodcommentaries stridencies] (2001, 7 min), Ammar Bouras raises the painful memory of the civil war during the 1990s. Bouras "paints" the video image and speeds up the images that he renders imperceptible from the moment that they appear; he insists on the murdered bodies and "un-paints" the video image as an evanescent material, appropriating and integrating it in the process of making video images. We hear the noise of protestors in the street, unrest, speeches by fanatic Islamists, piercing sounds. Bouras reconstructs a tragic reality, with the movement of the image matching the violence of vivid colors that engender a feeling of dread. Appearance, disappearance, metamorphosis: the video image is constructed and deconstructed, pixel by pixel.
© Still: Ammar Bouras
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.