'' A whole lot of horizons | A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

A whole lot of horizons

Series: 
DIA©®
Performance type: 
Performance
Creator: 
Olivier Garcin
Performer: 
Olivier Garcin
Website: 
//www.artactgo.com/toutuntasdhorizonstexte071983.pdf
//www.artactgo.com/perform.htm
//www.artactgo.com
Theoretical background: 

Olivier Garcin’s work intrigues, it is undoubtadly part of the art scence, in Nice and a bit elsewhere in 1984 (he participated in the « attention fresh paint » cycle at the GAC of the muséums of Nice and at the inaugural exhibition of the CNAC Villa Arson « writings in paintings » but without painting. His « produced objects » are very « atypical » in a context where painting dominates, his friends at the Studio welcome him to find him a place).

Occurence: 

Bande son de l'environnement

Eric Papon
Synopsis / Description: 
Bande son de l'environnement
Objets: 

une série de dessins réalisés dans le noir au pastel

Technique description référence: 
une série de dessins réalisés dans le noir au pastel
format raisin

deux paniers de 80 diapositives chacun contenant des photos de paysages

Technique description référence: 
deux paniers de 80 diapositives chacun contenant des photos de paysages

une série de dessins réalisés dans le noir au pastel

Technique description référence: 
une série de dessins réalisés dans le noir au pastel
format grand aigle
Documents: 

carton d'invitation

Type: 
Imprimé
Technique description référence: 
carton d'invitation
GARCIN

deux dessins descriptifs du dispositif installé

Type: 
Manuscrit
Technique description référence: 
deux dessins descriptifs du dispositif installé
GARCIN

un texte théorique : <em>quand je marche</em>

Type: 
Manuscrit
Technique description référence: 
un texte théorique : <em>quand je marche</em>
ADAM__
Description: 

- at “the studio”:
First, there is an installation made of:
- a hanging of colorful dry pastel drawings, projecting on the paper “mental images” of the body made in the dark in his studio,
- a typed text hung with pastels “when I walk,”
- lit up neon lights set on the floor the length of the walls hanging stuff, emphasizing the lines separating horizontal and vertical,
- a large movie screen,
- a table supporting two “carrousel Kodak” slide projectors facing the screen,
- a stereo sound broadcasting device

For Olivier Garcin, the performance consists of welcoming the public while dressed in black and white, white-gloved hands with assembly gloves for the movies and installing it in the room ; the room full, Olivier Garcin heads towards the technical table, launches the broadcasting of the sound room and projects 180 photographs of landscapes produced during his recent professional artistic travels (Senegal, Gambia, Morocco, Paris, the Southwest of France, Grenoble, Monpellier…). The series of photographs exhausted/run out, the sound continues to loop and then the audience can linger before the drawings, the text and the pot of friendship.

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