Le Lieu.
Le Lieu.
The performer welcomes the audience and gives a number to each person, The people are in he hall waiting to be called to the performance area, where they enter one at a time.
The performer is seated at a table and the screen of a computer lights his face. There’s on the table a slide projector and one cassette recorder. The floor is covered by small plastic 3D figures of Indians, a toy police car with a noisy siren is moving hap hazardously between the figures.
The performer asks the visitor to write his / her name on one egg and place it on the floor. The steps of various visitors crush some eggs filled with blood which melts with the figures and the toy police car.
The visitor is confronted by the performer’s questions: “Have you got any problem with Indians? “
The performer never looks of the visitor’s face.
After the visitor’s reply, some other text is projected on the wall.
“The impossibility to create a benevolent mirror” /
“Nobody is innocent” /
“Even saying it isn’t an excuse” /
“We are victims and executioners at the same time” /
“Art can only open the wound” /
“Don’t worry about the Indians… they’ll be extinct, precisely when they’ll be more necessary… and now, the lobotomy continues”.
The performer ask the visitor to read a spanish text, one fragment from “The chronicle from the Indies” by fray Bartolomé de las Casas. The voices where taped in a looping process, making a “babelisation” of voices and words. These sounds are the only thing heard or seen by the waiting audience.
Then the performer asks the visitor to lift up his / her shirt or blouse, placing on their torsos a band-aid labeled “performance”. The visitor goes out and the number of the next person is heard in the hall.
Le Lieu.
