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CREATION
FRED FOREST SECOND LIFE
DUMP YOUR TRASH ON SECOND
LIFE
Fred Forest at “Entropya/Art in progress”
Gallery, Naples; Italy
May 22nd – July 22nd 2008.
Tel : 00 39 335 80 92 771
A French artist on exhibition for
the first time in Naples
at “Entropya/Art in progress” Gallery offers
you the possibility to get rid of your household trash at
a most reasonable price! A pioneer of video art (1967)
and of Net.Art (1994), Fred
Forest is an emblematic artist
who headed up the sociological art movement (with the Sociological
Art Collective) and Communication aesthetics with Mario
Costa.
He has just created the virtual Experimental
Territory Center & Social Laboratory on the Promenade
des Anglais in Nice. The aim of this structure is
to produce ideas in order to better cope with the multiple
problems affecting our society. The first problem
that he has dealt with is sustainable development
and the protection of natural resources, though others shall
follow: violence, terrorism, poverty, speculation, corruption,
etc…
By calling on the expertise and collaboration
of the technological hub of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, with
its engineers and industry of innovation, he has conceived
of a revolutionary trash “disintegrator” the
functioning of which requires very little energy.
It is, indeed, a very strange and sophisticated machine
the workings of which are based on the close intertwining
of principles of the mind and of computing. This machine
has the surprising capability of dematerialising all objects
placed inside its transparent structure. It is for
this reason that we recommend that all visitors maintain
a respectful distance from the machine so as to avoid an
irreversible disintegration accident. The patented
secrets of this spectacular invention are jealously guarded
and, indeed, it is the subject of a merciless struggle between
various actors in European industrial espionage. Gone
are thermal combustion incinerators; McDonald’s has
recouped them (at an extremely low price) in order to develop
a new lighter cuisine to replace the Big Mac in the long
term. The trash “disintegrator,” as it
is known, garnered instant attention from the city of Naples.
An agreement has been struck with the city of Nice in the
context of the Mediterranean Union, so dear to the President
of the Republic of France, so as to allow the daily ferrying
of trash shuttles from Naples to Nice with a compulsory
stopover in Tunis. NATO’s maritime fleet has
been commissioned to escort this precious merchandise.
The unloading of this cargo will take place openly day and
night, near the Hôtel Negresco and the WebPalace.
Henceforth, individuals from the world over are allowed
to arrive on site with their domestic waste in hand –
no need for prior attention to recycling – to feed
this particularly gluttonous and voracious machine themselves.
The operation itself is to be understood in the context
of a vast undertaking towards improving public and mental
hygiene whereby artists’ utopias purport to resolve
the problems that both politicians and scientists have been
thus far incapable of appropriately addressing, namely the
ever-greater pollution of our planet.
Instructions: Prepare your own individual and portable trash bag.
If you are using either the rail or road networks, be sure
to open the plastic bag slightly when crossing the border
at Vintimille so as to allow enough pestilent odours to
escape to ensure that customs recognizes the authenticity
of your charge. Create an avatar on Second Life and
then go to the following address:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Conway%203/71/40/27
- Assistante
de réalisation
Wafa Bourkhis
- Maîtrise
d'œuvre
Association Capucine.net
