CENT CINQUANTE POEMES MIS EN SANG

of CAIRASCHI Gérard, JOURNIAC Michel, SOUKAZ Lionel

FRANCE, 1993, 00:15:00

Production : MIEGE Jacques, SOUKAZ Lionel
Genre : Filmed action
Keyword : Body art, Performance, Poetry

Summary :
An "action" by Michel JOURNIAC, photographed by Lionel SOUKAZ and edited by Gérard CAIRASCHI, performed at the book fair on March the 16th, 1993, where he exhibited 150 poems marked with his own blood. Michel JOURNIAC had a blood sample taken in public and then spread the blood on three plexiglass plaques on which Fernando PESSOA's words were written : "Outside all this, there is Christ, who knew nothing about finance - and, it seems, didn't have a library". The works were then attached to a background and exhibited before the public. It was Michel JOURNIAC's last performance. He died on October the 15th, 1995.

to print