La voiture de Théodore Musard

Sylvain Monchocé

Description

Concept: None
Pre-conceived Idea: None
Wishes: None
Project: None
Interest: Air/Water
Light: Arbitrary
Process: As shown in the video
Accessories: Glasses and Bowtie mandatory, moustache if possible

Postscript (by Michel Roth)

Sylvain and me had an exchange via e-mail about the project and I’m very glad that he allowed me to quote one section out of one of his mails which I regard as very important and deeply necessary in our days. Sylvain wrote:
“But the most important point which explains why I decided to perform alone, when the topic of this seminar was “distance musicking” with a goal to bring people together to perform and find new ideas, is a bit related to Thich Nhat Hanh’s “philosophy” but really connected to Krishnamurti’s thoughts (On Love and Loneliness). Since the beginning of this period, people keep publishing stuff “together” to ’show’ what they can do, to show that they exist and are connected. But it seems a bit false to me. People are afraid of loneliness, and in normal time we hide the fact that we are alone by meeting a lot of people, doing a lot stuff (to keep us busy) which then give us stories to tell to other people, but most of the time everything is empty. Most of us do what we do not simply because we want/need to do it but because it is hype to do it or just to be able to show off what we did, or simply because of social convention we do not undertake ourselves. But loneliness is still there.”