Paris, C.A.I.R.N. Performance Festival

Jan Fabre heeft deze performance nooit in uitvoering gebracht. In de performances zou de kunstenaar doormiddel van woordspelingen een nieuwe taal ontwikkelen. Gelijktijdig zou hij uit een zelfgebouwde toren klimmen op een gouden ladder.

= NOOIT UITGEVOERD

 

 

'The C.A.I.R.N. performance festival is badly
organised.
And what a low standard of performances.
The ones I have seen were dustbins full
of ignorance, without risk or vision.
I have a vague suspicion (to put it mildly) that most
of these performance artists are simply bad visual
artists and therefore misuse the performance
medium to hide their non-talent.
I have decided not to do my new performance here.
I want to leave quietly from this pretentious city
where they refuse to speak a word of English.
And where they think they are still the centre of the
world. Frustrated by not having a king and queen,
they have elected several intellectual popes.
And the only art they practise is that of the insult.
The foreigner. The visitor. I have had the
opportunity to physically experience their
moral superiority.'

(Jan Fabre, 12 April 1981)