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SOCIOLOGICAL
EXPERIMENT / VIDEO PROJECT
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VIDEOS OF THE GOLDEN YEARS
LA
FONT DES HORTS RETIREMENT HOME, HYÈRES
JUNE 1973
SELECTED
FOR DOCUMENTA 6, KASSEL, 1997
The
project constitutes an example of Joseph Beuys’s concept
of the “social sculpture.” The elderly working-class
residents of a retirement home are empowered to cast a critical
and imaginative eye on life inside a closed institution widely
considered to be both regimented and stagnant through the
use of video.
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