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Description:
LARGE SCALE is a 15-channel video installation, that depicts the inhabited area where International Leisure Development (ILD), with the full support of the local government, is planning to construct a destination city of leisure for all ages, that consists of 32 hotel casinos, five major theme parks, a conference center, several other hotels, hundreds of retail shops, restaurants, a golf course, a horse race track, an opera, museums, and residential development (www.granscala.com). All images are captured with pre-programmed computer-controlled moving cameras in May 2010, just a few months before the construction works are supposed to start. The installation is accompanied by the Song Of The Great Promise (Music by René Rothert).
When I arrived in Huesca in March 2010, I had just started to read the first volume of Abdalrachman Munif's "Cities of salt" quintet. "El desierto" is set in an unnamed Arab state of the Gulf. The story chronicles the transformation of a traditional desert society following the discovery of oil. I enjoyed reading the book during the first two weeks of my stay.
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