Jour 7

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Fête du plateau
Chantier de performances

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30. September 2007
Sunday in Marseilles.
Théodor di Ricco

Well, the festival is over. Four intense days of performance art. It finished with a free-for-all happening at the Cours Julien. The Ornic'Art crew had blocked off a part of the Cours Julien where there is a market during the day with plastic and cloth. There was only one entrance to the area closed off. We were a part of a bigger festival which incorporated a large area surrounding our space.  Throughout the four hours between 19:00 and Midnight, various performances took place.

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Sylvette Babin took a thin piece of paper, applied it to her face and added color. She did this throughout the evening and had a collection of works on paper which she laid out in front of her.

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I asked people to take a photo of me. I wrote their name on a piece of paper. On the front of the paper was a request that they send me the photo per email and an explication of what performance art is.

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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.

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Edwige walked backwards.

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Stephanie, Jack, Natacha Musléra and Half Swiss scratched a polyurethane board until there was nothing left but white particles on the ground. 

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Jean-Pierre made a place for a siesta, offered Pastis and told stories to those who lounged. 

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And there many others who also participated;

Carlos Pina

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Natacha Musléra

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Orion Maxted

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Les Tas

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Elsa Rignault

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Astrid Lefèvre

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Maria Cosmes

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Tristan Treins

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BBB johannes Deimlin, Dariusz Fodczuk...

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    The day started at Cours Julien at 15:30 with a performance from Ornic'Art. They are quite a large group incorporating a lot of props and technical support. Working with the theme of decontamination and de-programation, they set about cleaning themselves and the enviroment. Their action is a combination of performance, dance, living and street theatre. It was quite a spectacle. They used the fountain at the Cours Julien and the place in front.  At one point a group had bars of soap attached to their bodies and they laid on the ground and scrubbed as two other members with garden hoses attached to their bodies created a living fountain. The entire action lasted an hour and it was filled with well co-ordinated theatrical movements.  I was impressed.  They are a dynamic group.