'' Photographic Triptych, Spacial Restructuration No. 7 | A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

Photographic Triptych, Spacial Restructuration No. 7

Series: 
Restructurations spatiales
Creator: 
Noël Dolla
Performer: 
Noël Dolla
Theoretical background: 

It has now become possible to make a Spatial Reconstruction where the Triptych will no longer be the phenomenon of optic impression, but a Triptych creation due solely to Mental Relations.

Ex : one point in Nice, one point in Tokyo, one point in New York.

The point will be to look and consider as if part of a series, Triptych mentally inseparable.

Occurence: 
Description: 

Three circles were drawn in a line on the ground along the gateway at the site of Roman ruins, Arènes de Cimiez. Above and at the center of each colored circle (yellow, blue, and red), a camera is hanging from an elastic cord. Each of the three protagonists move within their respective circles and, at an undetermined time, takes hold of the camera, arms/loads/prepares the camera, sets the self-timer, pulls on the elastic cord, then licks the object. The camera then takes a trip in the space during which a photo is taken. The process is repeated several times. This will result in a series of random photographs. The author considers all the shots taken at an undetermined moment in time and space “good,” since he considers “that a camera can only produce images, that’s its purpose.” The value judgments on these images remains up to the viewer.

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