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Primo Maggio - with Javier Ruiz
HD video, 7 min., stereo sound, 2017.
These images document Tuscan narratives of labour politics and resistance. The film investigates the idiosyncratic May Day celebration in Carrara, a historic stronghold of Italian anarchism, closely tied to quarrymen’s movements and anti-fascist struggles. Drawing on visual anthropology, the work presents a complex interplay between “tradition” and “modernity,” showing how annual practices render these categories contingent. As Hobsbawm observed, “tradition” is thus invented.
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Primo Maggio, still from video, 2017.
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Primo Maggio, still from video, 2017.
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Primo Maggio, still from video, 2017.
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Primo Maggio, still from video, 2017.
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