Crossing the traditions of collage film and film essay, Camp overlaps campy aesthetics and the figure of the concentration camp. This ostensibly accidental and undeniably problematic pun develops into a conceptual framework made out of choice excerpts from Busby Berkeley’s 1943 campy masterpiece, “The Gang’s All Here” and documentary material used in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials. Beneath the visual track, two narrators, one in Arabic and the other in Mandarin, reflect on the political and theatrical meanings of Camp in exploring the role of fantasy in traumatic historical memory and the ethical root of flamboyant enjoyment.

biografia

Peter Freund is usually working on something else. He writes to avoid making art and makes art to avoid writing. He is a sometimes curator so as to avoid his own work, but usually that inspires him to write or make art. He is co-founder of the Barcelona-based artist collective, Adversorecto, which uses “retraction” as a working method for producing individual and collaborative works. www.peterfreund.art

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