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Christoph Buchel is known for his conceptual projects and complex large-scale installation pieces. In some of his projects he explores the unstable relationship between security and internment, placing visitors in the contradictory roles of victim and voyeur. This experience becomes the means by which collective tensions and traumas might be unearthed. For the Sydney Biennale, Buchel presents two conceptual projects: Guards involves having inmates in Australian prisons guarding the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, which stands where the ‘First Fleet’ of prisoners from England came ashore in 1788. For the second project No Future a group of people, aged over 80 years, practise continuously the song ‘God Save the Queen’ (1977) by the English punk band The Sex Pistols in one of the galleries.

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