Ben | Manger au milieu de la rue, 1963

Synopsis / Description:

Film muet monté numérisé de la performance de Ben réalisée dans le carrefour devant le Grand Café de la Buffa à Nice en 1963.
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Courtesy Ben Vautier.
Portage sur le web réalisé par la Villa Arson.

Performances:

Eating in the middle of the street

Description:

…I had wanted to change. It was my idea: you have to do things differently; to do something new, you can do the same thing but differently. So, I had thought instead of eating normally in a restaurant, I would ask them, “Will you let me eat in the middle of the street?” With a little discussion, they agreed, and I set up a table literally in the middle of the street; I mean, cars were passing on the left and the right, and what was I doing, I was there, calmly eating my spaghetti. I think it was spaghetti, after that it was a good steak, some cheese, a beer…”

Excerpt from the DVD Ben strip-tease intégral (‘Complete striptease Ben’), MAC Lyon, 2010.

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Ben | photographie de la performance "Manger au milieu de la rue", 1963 | © Ben - ADAGP, Paris 2012 | photographie : © DR | courtesy de l'artiste