Maryam Jafri: Malmo Konstmuseum.(Critical Essay)

In Costume Party, 2005, history becomes a chamber play. Written and directed by Maryam Jafri for her first solo museum presentation, the three-screen video installation features nonactors along with film and theater professionals. Other recent works hybridizing video art with film or the live arts come to mind--for different reasons, Yinka Shonibare's Un Ballo in Maschera, 2004, and Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij's Mandarin Ducks, 2005--but Costume Party is an altogether more satirical project.

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