Creator:

Joël Ducorroy

Performer:

Joël Ducorroy

Occurence:

Places:

MJC Gorbella

Starting date:

1982

Topology:

cultural complex/sports complex

Background:

during the Premières Rencontres Performances Nice 82 (First Meetings Performances Nice 82), from June 14 to 20, 1982.

Producer:

Serge III

Adress:

10 boulevard du comte de Falicon

Nice

France

Documents:

Affiche des <em>Premières Rencontres Performances Nice 82</em>

Type:

Presse

Technique description référence:

AMIEL_

Témoignage:

Joël Ducorroy | Sans titre, 1982

Description:

I do not remember by whom I had been invited to the Premières Rencontres of Grobella. Undoubtedly it had happened through Elgidio Alvaro. I thus arrived "my hands in my pockets" because, for myself and many others, the idea was to made do. In a performance, energy is what counts above all. In 1981, I was starting with my work on license plates. At that time I was deeply questioning performances. They were most often repetitions. I was stricken by the lack of creativity and the little demand in those who were generally performing. Myself, I had not given many... I thus decided to propose two actions that would challenge this phenomenon. It was a proper reflection on the problem of action art.

I remember there was a concert piano on the stage of Gorbella. As a kid, my dream was to be able to play it. I started to tinkle out on the piano, alone in the room. Someone arrived and shouted: "You are playing some Eric Satie?" I thus found an idea for a performance with the piano for the same evening! Two women who worked for the MJC helped. They consisted in my secretarial staff. One of them was actually really a secretary. There was a proper mise-en-scene, like at a concert, raising the curtain, time of silence, saluting the public upon arrival and departure, applauds by the public. I thus orchestrated 3 linked up pieces. In the first I executed my piano concert and they answered to me typing on their typewriters. For the second piece, I played my improvised concerto alone. For the last piece, the typewriters started their music and I had to follow them and it was my turn to answer them. At some point one of the two women says a text reading each letter in German.

Joël Ducorroy

A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

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Affiche des <em>Premières Rencontres Performances Nice 82</em>