Image: Anri Sala – Take Over (Marseillaise), 2017

Film still: Anri Sala, Take Over (Marseillaise), 2017, HD video projection, color, stereo sound, duration 7:56 min
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020

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July 14, 2020

Anri Sala – Take Over (Marseillaise), 2017

We celebrate Bastille Day with Anri Sala and an excerpt from his 2017 video Take Over (Marseillaise)!

 

Watch as the pianist and Disklavier play the French national anthem in a carefully choreographed moment of ghostly harmony, evoking the timelessness of the tune.

 

Both this video and its counterpart, Take Over (Internationale), pair the two eponymous musical works, powerful political anthems that are affiliated by an entangled political and cultural history.

 

Click here to watch!