NICOLAS GERBER THE HOLE

Club O.I. - KEAF - SEOUL / Performance 9/5/2008

Title : THE HOLE sound performance - 2008

Concept (Contents) : 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 (Yet we are not ready to hear that !)… Sex is related to perception of sound in space - the erotic print - where beauty to the visible - pornographic object… 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…

I re-act the story a third time.

>> south korea performances 2008

• site de nicolas gerber