This idea of reclaiming our waste is an approach, not only ecological and economic, but above all an impetus of resistance to the hyper consumption of our society. This is why we see several contemporary artists taking up this approach:
When it is emptied of its contents, is thrown like garbage on the public road, to end up in the garbage. We are rehabilitating and attributing to waste a new, more expressive destiny.
The appearance of man cans on the public highway provokes an interaction with the passer-by. Astonishment, wonder, fear. For the performer, when he surveys an urban territory, his action with the passer-by is experienced only when it presents itself.
The men cans even if they do acts without words, make a lot of noise; When they shake their cans like scales to manifest their joy, when they immobilize as if they had fallen asleep, when they get closer to each other as if little man can sought refuge and protection with Big man can.
This action of men cans reminds us of animals seen at the Zoo or on television or in some tales that our parents, grandparents, big brothers or big sisters, our teachers told us when we were children. Sometimes 1 bobbin man interrupts his walk, signals to the other with danced movements. The other responds in the same fashion, sets in motion, a kind of dance from which emanates a suggestive intensity that embarks the passer-by to an elsewhere. Then the 2 can men interrupt their dance and resume their walk, settle down in motionless postures as if they imagined being able to be forgotten by believing that the passer-by will confuse them with the urban furniture. This is what drives our approach, by setting up this project.
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, take part in the stroll of the bobbin man: a first of what awaits you at the FIAP festival to be held on 21 and 22 September 2023.