Eve Chariatte

Performance 2017, ZAT Festival, Parc Montcalm, Montpellier (FR)

What do we expect from a performance? Spectacle, grandeur, mastery? In this case, this is an anti-performance: there is no spectacle but labour, no grandeur but depth, no mastery but learning…

I invite the spectators to follow me in my efforts to contemplate disappearance — our own, and that of the earth and its resources. Over the two days of the festival, I dug a hole in full view of the audience, until it was large enough for me to disappear into. At regular intervals, I would stop to document the progression of my disappearance, using a typewriter and a Polaroid camera. Throughout the festival, the audience could follow the process: changes in the state of the landscape, changes in my physical condition, the development of my ability to use the tools, and fluctuations in my emotions and level of fatigue.

Documentation par étapes de la disparition, polaroid

CREDIT

Concept and performance | Eve Chariatte
Photo and video documentation | Bastien Birchler
Video editing | Eve Chariatte and Bastien Birchler