Takako Yabuki

On multiple levels and along historic facts and aesthetic adaptations of the film and theatre history the two-channel video installation "Fumier" narrates stories about the bigotry of bourgeois ideologies. In the form of an antique choir the characters referring to Pasolini’s film “Salò or the 120 days of Sodom” give instructions aiming at the degradation of the protagonists shown on the right screen of the two-part video installation. The title fumier and the action itself also refer to practices in Japan during the 17th century at the time of the Christian persecution.