The Last S(c)ene | A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

Creator:

Alain Arias-Misson

Performer:

Alain Arias-Misson

Occurence:

Places:

Galerie Depardieu

Starting date:

11 09 2006

Topology:

street

Producer:

Christian Depardieu

Adress:

64 boulevard Risso

Promenade des arts, de la Galerie Depardieu au MAMAC

Nice

France

Description:

Alain Arias-Misson, dressed in a costume and a derby hat, arranges thirteen chairs on the sidewalk on the other side of the Depardieu gallery then located a few hundred meters away from the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain of Nice (MAMAC). He acts out his Public Poem by making his set progressively move forward – on each pause he sits down on each of the thirteen chairs from where he silently bows to the audience on the street by rising his derby hat – up to the Museum and finally across the street thus blocking the traffic, he bows to it in a hectic finale.

Alain Arias-Misson