Abstract

FARGIER, Jean-Paul. Grand Canal & Mon OEil!. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2015, n.52, pp.149-160. ISSN 1853-3523.

Jean-Paul Fargier has been the referent of video art in France thanks mainly to their articles published in Cahiers du Cinema and teaching developed at the University of Vincennes. Fargier is the author of a monography on Nam June Paik and of a book on Bill Viola; also he is currently the prolific director of dozens of documentaries made for television. His text accurately tells the effervescence of militant video in the 70s and its evolution to the 90s. The 70s saw the flowering of collective videographers committed to political and union struggles. Strikes, demonstrations, pamphlets, manifestos...because that's how it all began in France, for political cinema. From cinema to video, there was only a step, facilitated by the low weight, low cost and effectiveness of the video. Then political discourse gave way to another form of protest: the dominant televisual language. The new challenge was to invent new forms, new aesthetics. To prevent anything being deleted, it was necessary to give the names, the dates, the projects, the complicity, the conflicts. Everything is there. Undeniable.

Keywords : Activists; Artists; Festivals; Groups; Video art.

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