The Jester and Death
2020
11mn
Produced by Julie Bena, supported by La Fondation des Artistes for Kunstraum, London, eponym solo show "The Jester and death"
curated by Thomas Cuckle and Hannah Conroy
http://kunstraum.org.uk/julie-bena/
Artistic direction:
Sybil Montet
Sound design:
Simon Kounovsky
The Jester & Death is an animation which sees the Jester (Béna’s avatar) and William Blake attend a drift-car race. The scene takes place in the Bunhill Fields cemetery; a 16th-18th Century former burial ground located near Kunstraum where nonconformists, radicals and dissenters are buried, holding the remains of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, Daniel Defoe, who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and the poet and artist William Blake, among thousands of others.