The video The infidels is a reimagining of a seminal Bauhaus work, the Triadic Ballet, created by Oskar Schlemmer and Hannes Winkler in 1922. To the music of what could be a player piano appear dancers- female dancers- who are masked and armed with AK-47s. Like puppets, they move through a choreography that is both graceful and warlike. Consistent with Dadaism, which started as a revolt against the First World War, Dzama has said that the idea for this work came to him in the lead up to the war in Iraq and after much thought about how power controls they way people think.
Resource: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
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