Baghdad

My place in society does not allow me to play Russian roulette, to open a casino, to carry on a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton, to dress myself out of a fashion magazine, to wear sneakers Made in China. My place in society requires me to barely lift a finger, to spy on my concierge, to wait for the bus, to reread the rules which govern my access to the penal code, to put my socks on right side out, to carry on a normal conversation, to correctly spell the following words: ? WARNING, DON?T MOVE, YOU?RE ON CAMERA? (tonelessly), to open a bank account, to climb the walls, to smoke and drink to excess. I?m a folk tale hero. 340,000 copies sold every year. I hold the department store sales record for 40 years. To answer to the question: What color is Henry IV?s white horse? Question... Answer...

Blanche-Neige

series of actions and performances,

initiated by Catherine Baÿ

Cartier Foundation - Paris - Avr. 2004 (extract)

Nomad evening around the Marc Newson exhibition.

With
Gaëlle Jeandon, Nathalie Essirard, Carole Reymond, Laurence Haziza, Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Diana Jaramillo, Camille Renarhd, Audrey Gallet, Emily King and Bénédicte Leclerc.

Video installation : Thomas Courcelle
Sound : Ludovic Germain
Lighting : Corinne Durand
Dresser : Garance Stassart
video : Thomas Courcelle, Roël Stassart, Henri Taïb and Charlotte

Thanks to
Isabelle Gaudefroy, Frédérique Medhi and Sandra Mahaut of Soirées Nomades (as well as Luc, Nicolas, Max and Julien), Garance Stassart, Joséphine Martin, AirStar Space Lighting

A witness tells: «At the beginning, they seemed to stay only on the exterior part of the building, on the grass of the garden more precisely. Then, step by step, they invaded the place. First, the offices, the stockrooms, and quickly they propagated everywhere on the site, infiltrating the control networks, the elevators, the cupboards… until they crashed on the building windows, drunk from the guests’ glasses, disinfected the place, moved the offices…then nothing, silence radio.»
Quickly arrived, quickly gone. We won’t see them for few months, not until the press conference held by the philosopher Sloterdijk and Carlos Oliveira, the authors of the book «Essai d’intoxication volontaire».