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  • Francis AlĂżs: REEL-UNREEL
    Francis AlĂżs

    ) In Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) (1997), Alÿs pushed a large rectangular block of ice through the streets of Mexico City for the nine hours that the ice took to melt. The video of that project has a kind of quixotic


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    ) In Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) (1997), Alÿs pushed a large rectangular block of ice through the streets of Mexico City for the nine hours that the ice took to melt. The video of that project has a kind of quixotic


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