Francis Alÿ,s: Children's Games
Fox, Lorna Scott / Medina, Cuauhtémoc An updated archive of Alÿs' long-term study of children's enduring need for playSince 1999, Belgian multimedia artist Francis Alÿs (born 1959) has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world. Children's Games is an ongoing archive of the urban practices that modernity has banished from everyday life, as the concepts of public space and free time have grown increasingly disto...