{"node_view":"\u003Carticle class=\u0022node\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Ch1 class=\u0022node-title\u0022\u003EBonjour Beau, Bonsoir Brummel\/ Bongo Ba, Bonsai Brahma\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\n  \n\n          \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-description field-type-textauthor field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EDescription\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Carticle class=\u0022filtred_html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBonjour Beau, Bonsoir Brummel\/ Bongo Ba, Bonsai Brahma\u003C\/em\u003E is the title bringing together these two performances, the first of which was a solo performance and the second of which was a series of improvisations with the participation of Isabelle Leygoute and Manuel Taraio. Each piece was self-sufficient, but they inter-penetrated as meditations on space and time. The initial pretext was the life of Englishman Beau Brummel, who invented dandyism, and inspired Baudelaire\u2019s concept of the wanderer. Dandyism as it was practiced by the aristocratic officers of the English army during the war, also indirectly influenced the behavior of Madrid \u201cmajos\u201d during Goya\u2019s time. In my performances, I don\u0027t follow a narrow documentary method; I mostly use musical, poetic, plastic and visual means to express a few enigmatic events. I would like to create a nearly invisible veil of dreams for the audience (...) it\u0027s easy to moralize and condemn the dandy as being a useless human being. I think that dandyism, as Beau Brummel has shown us, is one of the expressions of man\u0027s dream of freedom, at a time when cities were beginning to grow, becoming huge metropolises powered by the first industrial revolution. Perhaps in the end this dream of freedom is only an illusion. Nonetheless, it is what gives the human being dignity in the face of existence. I\u0027ve been interested in all the manifestations of this dream throughout the history of the world. In my past performances, I examined the different ways in which this dream was expressed; for example in the series called \u201cTatlin at Malevitch\u2019s funeral\u201d, presented in 1976 at the Fitzrovia cultural center in London and at Kettle\u2019s Yard Gallery in Cambridge, or those that I created in collaboration with the Catalan artist Oriol de Quadras: \u201cMagellan and circumnavigating around the world\u0022, presented at the Institute of contemporary arts in Hill House (Berkeley Square), at the Birmingham Arts Lab in England. Dandyism is only a minor manifestation of this dream of freedom. Still I think it deserves to be f\u00eated, and to be dedicated a small nostalgic sigh. For this reason, I subtitled these two synoptic-realistic performances: \u003Cem\u003EEulogy\/Elegy for the Dandyism David Cortes de Medalla\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/article\u003E\u003Caddress rel=\u0022author\u0022\u003EDavid Cort\u00e9s de Medalla\u003C\/address\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \u003C\/section\u003E\n      \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-concepteur field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ECreator\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EDavid Medalla\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-executant field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EPerformer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EDavid Medalla\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \t\u003Carticle class=\u0022node-effectuation\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Ch1 class=\u0022effectuation-title\u0022\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-topologie field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ETopology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003Emunicipal galleries\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-lieu field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EPlaces\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EGalerie d\u0026#039;art contemporain des Mus\u00e9es de Nice (GAC)\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-date-de-debut field-type-text field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EStarting date\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E04 29 1983\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-organisateur field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EProducer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EDenis Castellas\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EAdress\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022addressfield-container-inline locality-block country-FR\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022locality\u0022\u003ENice\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022country\u0022\u003EFrance\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-contexte field-type-text-long field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EBackground\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EDenis Castellas\u2019 one-man show during the cycle \u201cAttention peinture fra\u00eeche II\u201d (Caution, Wet Paint II), from February 25 to May 15, 1983\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\u003C\/article\u003E    \t\u003Carticle class=\u0022node-effectuation\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Ch1 class=\u0022effectuation-title\u0022\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-topologie field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ETopology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003Emunicipal galleries\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-lieu field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EPlaces\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EGalerie d\u0026#039;art contemporain des Mus\u00e9es de Nice (GAC)\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-date-de-debut field-type-text field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EStarting date\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E05 07 1983\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-organisateur field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EProducer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EDenis Castellas\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EAdress\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022addressfield-container-inline locality-block country-FR\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022locality\u0022\u003ENice\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022country\u0022\u003EFrance\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-contexte field-type-text-long field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EBackground\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003Efor the closing of Denis Castellas\u2019 exhibition during the cycle \u201cAttention peinture fra\u00eeche III\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\u003C\/article\u003E  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-sources-bibliographiques field-type-text-long field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EBibliographical sources\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003Ein catalogue \u003Cem\u003EAttention Peinture Fra\u00eeche III\u003C\/em\u003E, 1983\u003Cbr \/\u003Efascicule, 1 page recto verso\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\u003C\/article\u003E","nid":"3267"}