“The book, here and now, with its author and reader, either uttered or silent, is a performance. Bookperformance is a naked, fixed and textual body. If movement is impossible for a fixed body, to turn the impossible into the possible, it is necessary to attempt the weird and the absurd. In order to successfully attempt the weird and the absurd, you must possess not only a considerable intelligence but also an extraordinary courage for realizing and accepting the significant power of the weird and the absurd. To be able to do all these it is necessary to be a good reader”. Bookperformance Manifesto, principle 1/7
Event: Body & Sound of I & Eye: Bookperformance.
Context: Rock Strangers Make Sense To Me
Organisation: Rock Strangers Make Sense To Me & Martine Nicholerojine
Venue: Melesn & Dejardin.
Date: 28th November 2015.
Duration: 3 hours + 30 minutes.
Texture: Stones vs Human Body.
Languages: Music, sounds.
Curated by: The Bookperformance part, by Çiğdem y Mirol.
Created by: The Bookperformance part, by Çiğdem y Mirol.
Video by: Rock Strangers Make Sense To Me Production
Photographs by: Rock Strangers Make Sense To Me Production
Outcome: The artwork created during the performance was ephemere.
Outcome: The performance shootings / film was part of a digital exhibition showcasing the whole event co-created artists Martine Nicholerojine, Julien Cherpion, Tea Plesnicar, Vanessa Difine, Marcello Giannadrea, Francesco Cigana, Dave Bruel, Arne Quinze.
Body & Sound of I & Eye(U): Bookperformance events showcase how a book (as an object) becomes a book in its physicality. Readers / Audience are welcome to join the performance, which is a very nature of Bookperformance that is based on co-creation. Each Bookperformance event is unique in its nature, thus most of the happening is unexpected both for Çiğdem y Mirol and the others.
This specific Bookperformance was part of a larger performance, and it focused on the body, the movement and its sounds that are challenged by another body which is not a human being but “rock” (by Arne Quinze) and its stillness and silence in this case. The sounds and movements that were created by other artist in the project contribute to the unity of the happenning created alltogether.
Below is a teaser to the shootings.