: sound performance - KEAF Seoul South Korea 2008 / mechanical process : the translation / 30 minutes…
" For about 4000 years maybe, Art makes us believe that the desire of a man depends
to the beauty of a woman - her eyes, her legs, her mouth, her chest, her figure…
But looking straight at her sex, is a transgression of beauty. All the hierarchies of the body are turned upside down…"
Inspired by « Une Sale Histoire » (also known as A Dirty Story) an unusual short film by French director Jean Eustache (1977), the factual tale of a man who finds a peep hole in the female toilets of a café - the story firstly being acted out and secondly being conveyed off-the-cuff by the man this actually happened to…
In this quite un-radical performance, I make the experience of perception thru sound. A "peep-show" where I put myself in front of a non-french talking audience, with headphones on my head and a microphone and reproduce vocally the story of the Hole (in french ). After a time people start to be left alone with the language that comes out of my mouth in up-tempo, they don't understand the words and some feel to be betrayed, other start to feel the sound… It's actually a question of point of view of the matter. That the sexual act is in time like sound in space…
« Que l’acte sexuel est dans le temps ce que le son est dans l’espace »
> http://spinette.free.fr/nicolasgerber/south_korea/print.html
