Protected: The Last Carnival Cruise
Antoni Miralda
Galeria SENDA, Barcelona
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- Title
- Protected: The Last Carnival Cruise
- Gallery
- Galeria SENDA, Barcelona
- Year
- 1980-2016
- Duration
- 9 min
- Format & Technical
Single channel, Super 8 transferred to HD video, colour, black and white, sound
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
- Idea & Concept
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- Editing & Postproduction
The Last Carnival Cruise is an imaginary trip inspired by the mass tourism industry, leisure, old age and the idea of a journey with no return. Shot in Super 8 in 1980 by Miralda on board a cruise, as a part of his unfinished By boat, by train and by plane project, the video, which has recently been edited, is presented as a tale in seven episodes: “Say Goodbye”, “Loading Potatoes” “Journey Rules”, “Gogo Food”, “Enjoyment Tips”, “Upside Down Rite” and “Unloading Zone”.
The video opens as the cruise ship sets sail from harbour and the passengers say their farewells, followed by an initiatory visit around the vessel, which is held like a processional rite through the hallways, a banquet of sweets and a dance in the large ballroom. These joyful, tumultuous scenes are followed by other, deserted ones, with hallways occupied only by suitcases which, at the end of the trip, are unloaded and stowed by the crew. The journey is connected to the dramatic events that 5 years later occurred to the Achille Lauro ship, hijacked by the Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FLP).
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Antoni Miralda
- Artist
1942, Terrassa, Spain
Miralda lives in Paris since the 60s. His anti-militarist first compositions, known as Soldats Soldés (1967-72), have been known as ‘assemblages’ evolving from the accumulation of plastic white toy soldiers. Living in NY in the 70s and 90s, his works centered on public space and the edible, with project such as; Wheat & Steak (Kansas City, 1981), Santa Comida, (Nova York, Miami, París, 1984-89), and the development together with Montse Guillén of the restaurant El Internacional in Tribeca (Nova York, 1984-1986). In the mid-90s, evolving from the concept of food as culture, he creted FoodCulturaMuseum, a project which has travelled, evolved and taken different shapes and forms, such as; Food Pavilion for the 2000 Hannover Expo; Power Food and Sabores y Lenguas (Caracas, Lima, Mèxic, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Xangai). In 2010, he had his extensive retrospective, De gustibus non disputandum, at the Reina Sofía Museum, and in late 2016 he will present at MACBA his recent American works. He currently lives between Barcelona and Miami.
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- Address
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- Phone
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