– live performance, Quai General Durand, Sète, France, 13/09/2013
Voudriez-vous, s’il vous plait, m’apprendre à faire un “French Kiss”?
In my performance, I invited audience to teach me to do a “French Kiss” by making an announcement: Voudriez-vous, s’il vous plait, m’apprendre à faire un “French Kiss”? (can you please teach me to do a “French Kiss”?) in my broken French. The notions of cultural authenticity, exoticism and intimacy in public space were explored when audience joined my performance one by one with hesitation, anxiety and enjoyment. My French was spoken better and better after a few attempts, while my kissing skills were improved by different kissers. It was ironic that, at last, a Swedish artist ‘successfully’ taught me to do a French Kiss and I managed to speak the French sentence more smoothly after repeating again and again for a few times.
請你教我一走趟法式濕吻。
請你教我一走趟法式濕吻。
請你教我一走趟法式濕吻。
一直求教，
直至我把法語說好，直至我們都拿捏到激情，和不一定源自法國的濕吻。
photo credits: Roland von der Emden, Evelyne Goupy
(my participation in Infr’Action – Festival International d’Art Performance was made possible with the support of Hong Kong Kong Arts Development Council.)
this performance was part of the Infr’Action – Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, France, 11-14 September 2013