AND AND AND / Event 2 / François Bucher / Expedition to the Photographic Plateau in Marcahuasi, Peru / August 11, 2010

El Monumento a la Humanidad, Marcahuasi Plateau, from the first expedition in June 2009, part of the documentary „La nuit de L'homme” by François Bucher.

AND AND AND is an artist run initiative, which will use the time between now and dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012 to consider with individuals and groups across the world the role art and culture can play today and the constituent publics or communities which could be addressed. The series of interventions, situations, and occurrences entitled AND AND AND are part of dOCUMENTA (13) and will compose a map of emergent positions, concerns, and possible points of solidarity.

For the second event, AND AND AND has invited the Berlin based Colombian artist François Bucher. For the AND AND AND series, Bucher will be embarking on his second expedition to a place which he has named the "photographic plateau" taking the cue from a decade long investigation (1952 - 1960) of a largely unknown author called Daniel Ruzo. Ruzo discovered the rock formations in the mountains as sculptures that only reveal their hidden images in a certain time of the day and a certain time of the year, according to the cycles of the sun and the placement of the observer. This type of “disappearing figuration” suggests an epistemological metaphor for Bucher, which in its turn leads him to another researcher: the Mexican Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum, a scientist from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México who disappeared without a trace in 1994, as he was investigating amongst other things, the notion of an “informational matrix” that would explain the phenomena of shamanism in which he had actively partaken. The link between Ruzo and Grinberg becomes thus a focus of this second expedition to the Photographic Plateau. - A post-expedition report will be available on the AND AND AND website early September.

Date / Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Place / Marcahuasi
Country / Peru
Location / 13° 33' 0 S, 72° 32' 60 W