The short film We are all in the bus shows a performance by Iván Argote in a Parisian bus: he introduces all the passengers as if they were members of his family. They are stunned and sometimes react aggressively. By introducing fictitious family ties in a space usually governed by mutual alienation and indifference to the other, the artist confronts us with the behaviors we adopt in spaces that the anthropologist Marc Augé has described as "non-places"; "non-places" are spaces of passage where exchange and encounter rarely unfold, where individuals remain isolated and anonymous.
Following his arrival in Paris in 2006, Iván Argote made several short films in Parisian transports, documenting his interventions that go against the behavioral norms in force in these spaces of transit.
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