Produced by La biennale de Montreal & One Fifty
Productions
Line production by Arthub Shanghai
The Swap is
the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards
(1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as
in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul
roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the
financial district. Another
narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic
bailouts put the
financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus
seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the
situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor,
where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.
Le grand balcon, La biennale de Montreal, Oct. 2016
- Jan. 2017 (curator: Philippe Pirotte)
