Pastorale

durational — Installation — Performance — 2011

Pastorale is a response to the Antoine Pickels's invitation to share the space of the great hall from Les Halles de Schaerbeek for the Trouble Festival. With eight performers, the artists were invited to produce a three hour durational performance,under the title : The Great Gallery of Living Sculpture, in daylight, with no sound amplification. As in a museum, the spectators were free to move from one work to another.

In reference to Marcel Duchamp and Damian Ortega, Pastorale produces a painting in the tradition of rural landscapes painting. The picture is visible only from one point of view - a bull's eye window. The painting is decomposed in space into a sculpture made up of different volumes on several planes. In contrast with paintings using long-lasting materials, the sculpture is made of living and organic materials surrounding a body that is asleep. As the hours go by, the painting disintegrates as some slugs and sanies feed voraciously on all living matters, could it be the green of the leaves or the skin of the performer in an erotic and morbid atmosphere.

CREDITS

Concept & performance: Gaëtan Rusquet Thanks to: Mélanie Pedduzzi, Julien Dubourg, Antoine Pickels, Françoise Chaumont.

SHOW

04.2011 - Festival Trouble#7, les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels(BE)