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MEDIA / PUBLIC EVENT
IN
SEARCH OF JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
“VAR
MATIN” NEWSPAPER AND MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, TOULON
JANUARY / JUNE 1988
Based
on 40 varied “missing person” announcements published
in a local daily newspaper over the course of a six-month
period—reinforced by tracts handed out in public places,
posters, graffiti, and coverage on radio and television—the
artist creates a sense of suspense around a fictitious character
who has reportedly disappeared. The public is invited to send
the mysterious person letters, pictures, and telephone messages;
and all material is immediately put on display in the city
museum. At the end of this participatory action, which demonstrates
the media’s capacity to turn fiction into reality, the
character, played by an actress, makes her triumphant return
in an open-air motorcade.
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