FOR JEAN LUC - 4 hours and 30 minutes - 29 September 2007 19h30 / Cours Julien, Préavis de désordre urbain (Ornic'art) in Marseilles Art Performance by Half Swiss (christian & nicolas gerber) ©2007

This performance took place in a very strange atmosphere though it was a festival in one of the most popular quarter in Marseilles. We asked the organisation to borrow us a table and chairs, we disposed the furnitures in the corner of the place that was reserved for Art Performance - a very isolated and square space comparing to the complex, crowded and noisy atmosphere of the outside. Our performance space was symbolically the Un-Corner of Un-Consciousness. We sat there... During all the performance 83 people came to visit us, they could seat and chat - we asked other artists to get some packs of beer for a better conviviality. All objects that were consumed had to be placed on the table. Christian an me had to organize a way to piss because we were not in the situation to leave the table, so we asked for an empty Evian bottle that we cut - we pissed an average of 1 liter each in two steps (4 persons helped to empty the full bottle, rince and bring it back to us). 5 minutes before Twelve, we concentrated for the end of the performance - we wrote a small speech that we recited to the last audience 1 minute before 12pm (in french and english) :

« Good Evening to you, we are in a square space, we think that people work too much, that they go too quickly to one point, this (pointing the table) is a monument for survey, conviviality is an autonomous economy and a total desire, that's our economy of means. This is a homage to Jean Luc Godard, thank you and good night ».

Thanks to Edwige, Mélodie, Julia, Stéphanie, Natacha, Theodor, Les Tas, Orion, Jérôme, Les Fermières Obsédées, Maria, Sylvette, Roshdy, Christine, Age, Johannes, Tristan, Philippe, Hye Ryon, Christian, Daniele, Olmo, Jepp, Jan, Carlos + 2, Carine, Bernard, Jack, God, Guillaume, Violaine and many more for their help to write a performance.

«Half Swiss had installed themselves around a table where they invited the public to participate in a discussion about art. They passed out beers liberally and actually asked and took notes about the conversation.» Theo

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