NINON MAZEAUD (FR) - Occupation
Occupation,
Taking possession
Empty space
Take over
Precariousness
Social life
Structure
Community
Ephemeral
Utopia.
The experience is made of numerous voices.
The ones of every people who experienced it.
Sometimes these are faithful to reality, just by relating the facts ; memories, accurate descriptions, details, memorized conversations, …
At some other time, quite the opposite, these are carrying projections and desires. The reality is shaped by the prism of dreams, as an escape to the daily brutality.
Occasionally then, these voices are just passing though, leaving their traces.
Despite everything, an occupation is precarious, it could come to an end at some point, putting a stop to collective, and individual, constructions.
So how to know if it has ever happened ?
The proposition gathers some accounts of the inhabitants of the island without pictures*, photographs of a vanished occupation**, video excerpts of a occupied building, now under wrecking***.
*the island without pictures gathered by Lara Sellal
**Balmoral, collection of photographs by Julie Robert
***Clara Cambadelis
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