The Host and the Cloud

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The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf experimental film
performance project
countryOfOrigin France
creator Pierre Huyghe NERFINISHED
director Pierre Huyghe NERFINISHED
exhibitionContext art institutions
film festivals
explores collective memory
institutional structures
psychological states
social rituals
features unscripted actions
genre contemporary art
experimental film
performance art documentation
hasArtisticMovement conceptual art
contemporary art
post-conceptual art
hasAuthor Pierre Huyghe NERFINISHED
hasNationality French work
hasProductionPeriod late 2000s
hasTemporalContext early 21st century
hasTitleLanguage English
investigates collective behavior
power relations in cultural institutions
role of spectatorship
mainSubject institutional power
memory
ritual
medium film
performance
notableFor blurring boundaries between fiction and reality
site-specific production in a museum
use of non-professional participants
originalLanguage French
partOf Pierre Huyghe’s body of work
productionMethod live performance situations
publicationDate 2010
relatedTo contemporary moving image art
ethnographic museums
institutional critique
performance documentation
setting abandoned ethnographic museum
workType audiovisual artwork

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