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The Game of Death

Performance type: 
Happening
Creator: 
Emmanuel Benichou
Performer: 
Emmanuel Benichou
Website: 
//www.benishow.blogspot.com
//www.wat.tv.com/emmanuelbenichou
Occurence: 
Places: 
Galerie RDF
Starting date: 
09 17 2009
30 minutes
Topology: 
gallery
Producer: 
Romain Delfuria
Adress: 
2 rue Delfy
Nice
Objets: 

tenue jaune avec bandes adhésives noires, lunettes de soleil, fausse postiche de barbe, pisolet à balles à blanc

Technique description référence: 
tenue jaune avec bandes adhésives noires, lunettes de soleil, fausse postiche de barbe, pisolet à balles à blanc
Documents: 

carton d'invitation

Type: 
Imprimé
Technique description référence: 
carton d'invitation
Emmanuel Benichou | trace de la performance "Le jeu de la mort", 2009 | © DR | courtesy de l'artiste
Description: 

Inspired by the film The Game of Death with Bruce Lee, I parody a scene from the film. Presenting myself to the assembly, equipped with a blank cartridge pistol, not without risk, in Kill Bill garb, I ask for, in a somewhat authoritarian and germanic tone, “a volunteer to shoot me.”

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