Art performance really?
Thursday, May 20, 2010 Publié par Eric Tenin
Sometimes, when it comes to art - and art performances in particular - I don't always get it... Hence, this little number that I came across with last evening in front of La Bourse building (the one you see in the background). A certain Miss Dora O'range was surrounded by a little crowd watching her doing her performance (light up a fire, playing golf with an orange she had just covered in petrol like in this photo...). The leaflet that was distributed there by her "assistants" says that "Miss Dora likes to play with the boundaries of normality". You bet! More on this website if you're intrigued.
May 20, 2010 12:14:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric, is it not the aim of Art that you do not get it. That's what I like about art. It makes you think. :-)
May 20, 2010 1:11:00 AM GMT+02:00
Sounds like an interesting woman!
May 20, 2010 2:27:00 AM GMT+02:00
I love to be challenged by thought provoking displays but I can't help wondering if the flaming oranges came too close for comfort for anyone?
May 20, 2010 2:36:00 AM GMT+02:00
Maybe Miss Dora should be invited to the PDP picnic to make some great original BBQ.
May 20, 2010 4:37:00 AM GMT+02:00
A performance understood only by the artist herself. Then again, maybe not.
May 20, 2010 5:50:00 AM GMT+02:00
You know the expression "I don't know much about art but I know what I like"? I don't think this is it. Maybe I just don't get performance art. (Can you say "contrived"?) I definitely do like your photo(s) though—Eric, you're always where it's happening (so to speak).
May 20, 2010 7:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
Hi Eric
Just discovered your blog a few weeks ago & love it. I just read in 'paris signs' about the engraving, as it happens I took a photo of one on the rue Montorgueil on the house numbered 73, could it be that old?
Thanks a million for all the great photos and information.
Lucy
May 20, 2010 8:36:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric! I was there too on my way out of the Metro! I thought, "If Eric were here it would be a perfect PDP opp!" At first I thought it was a protest about oil companies as she also covered stuffed white seals with oil. Then I saw the oranges in oil and thought about Florida. All in front of the Bourse. But then it just got plain weird!!
May 20, 2010 12:12:00 PM GMT+02:00
Well, who hasn't hit a few oranges down the Rue de Rivoli from time to time?
I find it quite normal.
A little tip, the smaller satsuma coated with some extra virgin olive oil gets much more distance.
May 20, 2010 12:36:00 PM GMT+02:00
LOOOL, only in Paris <3
May 20, 2010 1:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
Woooow! I don't understand the Artist nor Drummond today. Je vais donc aller me faire cuire un oeuf sur le barbecue de Miss Dora ;) Just true and not nasty at all from me, I swear! Bisous.
May 20, 2010 2:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
Isn't it just a BBQ?
...Or am I a artist, when I prepare my BBQ every Sunday?
...
May 20, 2010 4:54:00 PM GMT+02:00
Looks jerk, looks like joke also..
wusthof culinar set
May 20, 2010 5:53:00 PM GMT+02:00
Flore, I shall try to translate:
'Eh bien, qui n'a pas tape sur quelques oranges au golf dans la Rue de Rivoli de temps en temps?
Je trouve cela tout a fait normal.
Un petit conseil, une petite mandarine badigeonee d'huile d'olive extra vierge ira beaucoup plus loin.'
Does this make any sense?
May 20, 2010 6:04:00 PM GMT+02:00
j'ai encore du mal à saisir le concept de cette demoiselle ;-)même après avoir lu les commentaires et ouvert le lien menant à son site web. Question de génération? de culture?
Cela fait peut-être plus d'un an que je viens régulièrement sur ce blog...juste vous dire qu'il me faisait du bien sans me rendre pour autant trop nostalgique ;-)
May 20, 2010 8:07:00 PM GMT+02:00
Thank you very much Drummond!!! Your French is as good as your imagination is big, indeed :)
You should try in French more often, I'd get you perfectly ;)
Comme le commentaire de Laurence par exemple que j'ai très bien compris!!
Bon, il ne reste plus que Miss Dora que je ne comprends pas bien! Mais ça, c'est beaucoup, beaucoup moins grave :)
May 20, 2010 9:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
Orange you glad you saw it?
May 20, 2010 11:18:00 PM GMT+02:00
Can anyone in Paris just light a fire wherever they want?
May 21, 2010 12:14:00 AM GMT+02:00
You know that it would be untrue,
You know that I would be a liar,
If I was to say to you
In Paris you can build a fire.
(God, I need a vacation...)
May 21, 2010 12:32:00 AM GMT+02:00
LOL Jeff I think so! You'll be in Paris soon enough.
May 22, 2010 3:19:00 AM GMT+02:00
...isn't it funny what is considered art and what is not?
May 22, 2010 8:48:00 PM GMT+02:00
I liked the artistic "parked bicycle" from the other day to this. However, should I desperately be needing an artist to help with the brats, Dora would be in the running.