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Wading Pool

Performance type: 
Performance
Creator: 
Bruno Mendonça
Performer: 
Bruno Mendonça
Witness: 
Jean-Claude Bisotto
Jean-Pierre Paringaux
Bibliographical sources: 
in Bruno Mendoça, Bibliothèques éphémères, Editions de l'Ormaie, 2002
Producer: 
Bruno Mendonça
Occurence: 
Objets: 

combinaison

Technique description référence: 
combinaison
Documents: 

carton d'invitation

Type: 
Imprimé
Technique description référence: 
carton d'invitation

Le Patriote Côte d'Azur, 15 mai 1981

Type: 
Presse
Technique description référence: 
Le Patriote Côte d'Azur, 15 mai 1981

Nice Matin, 19 mai 1981

Type: 
Presse
Technique description référence: 
Nice Matin, 19 mai 1981

documents préparatoires: plans, dessins

Type: 
Manuscrit
Technique description référence: 
documents préparatoires: plans, dessins
MENDON
Description: 

One door, with its hinges and its structure, faces the audience, with South America carved and colorfully painted on its side. A small pool was entirely covered by a tarp with abacus signs painted in black on the tarp with a no 10 brush. Under this tarp were some balloons hidden from the public. I arrive via the door that I push and then come upon the small pool. With two or three breaths, I take in some air before going under the tarp, and am followed in my progression. I make the balloons squeak as if it were an underwater concert. I pop some balloons and continue my research of the last balloons that are rubbing against the bottom of the pool. A range of sounds, muffled by the tarp, and produced between my body, the ground, and the tarp. I emerge swimming, and leave through the door that closes with a sharp click.

Bruno Mendonça | photographie de la performance "Petit Bassin", 1982 | © Bruno Mendonça | photographie : © DR | courtesy de l'artiste
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