The Act

The video begins with the Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" as the viewer is taken inside the empty Peruvian Congress where bits of dust circulate through the air and start to accumulate into a mountain on the floor. The title is a nod to the government’s economic policy and its relation to drug trafficking, as Peru has ceased to be considered a third world country but has returned to be the largest producer of cocaine in the world, where nobody takes responsibility for this, undoubtedly rendering it a magician’s act.

Shown below at video art festival Denver Digerati, 2013.

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