Bertille Bak’s (*1983) works often come about in collaboration with individuals or with communities. The French artist’s videos, but also her drawings, objects and installations are particularly concerned with minorities and with their reality in society. As a rule, she spends several months with the respective groups, in the course of which she involves them in her films. She is not so much interested in observing or documenting the reality of their lives specifically, but initiates group-dynamic communicative processes and social changes through the collaborative way she creates art.
Safeguard Emergency Light System (2010), a seven-minute film shot in documentary style, tells a story of protest by residents living in an apartment complex of about 2,000 households in the Din Daeng neighbourhood of Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008 the city-housing authorities announced that, due to the poor conditions of these decadesold apartment blocks, the occupants would be evicted and the buildings demolished to make way for a commercial centre. In response to a lack of compensation or housing offered by the government, the members of the Din Daeng community launched a years-long neighbourhood resistance, which was seldom covered by Thai media.
Safeguard Emergency Light System (2010), a seven-minute film shot in documentary style, tells a story of protest by residents living in an apartment complex of about 2,000 households in the Din Daeng neighbourhood of Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008 the city-housing authorities announced that, due to the poor conditions of these decadesold apartment blocks, the occupants would be evicted and the buildings demolished to make way for a commercial centre. In response to a lack of compensation or housing offered by the government, the members of the Din Daeng community launched a years-long neighbourhood resistance, which was seldom covered by Thai media.
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