80

 

PERFORMANCE / READING

 

A LIFE IN ONE HUNDRED PORTRAITS

 

LIBRARY CENTER FLAMMARION POMPIDOU

December 26, 2010

 

On the occasion of the publication of his book "A Life in 100 portraits" Fred Forest performs a reading / performance at the bookstore Flammarion Centre Pompidou. He publicly announced his reading as a provocation, where he leads the charge of the Centre Pompidou, including Bernard Blistene, its director of development, the challenge that it launches. The challenge of a debate regarding its participation in a system of quasi-contemporary art mafia, based on money and clannishness. It shows that he introduced in his own institution without being in a position to prevent access. Ironic about his fate, and stating that if the principal applicant does not go to the summons he is, he can not respond to attacks which will be the object, and knowing that the absent are always wrong ... this admission will be, pure and simple, its turpitude.

The performance of the artist takes place over digital display, where he created a program on Second Life, showing the different people, which he sketched the portrait in the book he presents. Reading it will also focus on the portrait he has drawn charge against him. It has not had the nerve to go down two floors ... coming to bring him the contradiction? A kind of implicit admission that the artist he is charged. (Utllisation Second Life for performance)