Residency in Totem: a young worker hostel, oct-nov
2002
I am invited for 2 months in the
hostel. The residents do not invest it and most of them do not know
about the district around. In fact, this part of the town is being
transformed into a residency district (people are working in Lyon
and coming here just to sleep, the clearest example of that is the
number of shops that are closed). I would like the residents to
know about that and generally sensitize them to their everyday life
spaces.
I decided to live there as an anonymous
person and to act silently. I presented regularly some texts, drawings
and photographs to the residents. I invited them to discover their
surrounding. Sometimes, I did also install some artistic videos
to understand in a different way the theme I was talking about.
Quickly, people talk about those
actions, mainly because they didn't know who was doing it! It's
only at the end of my stay that I announced myself as the author
and that I presented all of the work. Today,
an artistic book remains of this residency.
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