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AMPLIFIED PASSAGE Sound work by Miriam Backstrom and Carsten Holler Public commission from the City of Paris In homage to the Jewish children of France deported during the Second World War
From 1942 to 1944, 11,400 Jewish children, including 6,100 Parisians, were deported from France to the Nazi extermination camps, with the complicity of the Vichy government. Of these children, almost all murdered, all that remains is the memory that we want to keep of them. To keep this memory alive, the artists Miriam Backstrom and Carsten Holler offer here a sound work: Amplified Passage. The voices and sounds of the city are picked up by microphones and amplified, without being recorded, by being subtly modified, in such a way that, in a limited space, they seem to come from nowhere. Transformed, distanced, returned to a form of intimacy, the voices of a moment become those of a memory always to be renewed and which carries among the living the memory of the deceased. PARIS TOWN HALL
From 1942 to 1944, 11,400 Jewish children, including 6,100 Parisians, were deported from France to the Nazi extermination camps, with the complicity of the Vichy government. Of these children, almost all murdered, all that remains is the memory that we want to keep of them. To keep this memory alive, the artists Miriam Backstrom and Carsten Holler offer here a sound work: Amplified Passage. The voices and sounds of the city are picked up by microphones and amplified, without being recorded, by being subtly modified, in such a way that, in a limited space, they seem to come from nowhere. Transformed, distanced, returned to a form of intimacy, the voices of a moment become those of a memory always to be renewed and which carries among the living the memory of the deceased. PARIS TOWN HALL