Movement Research, Open Performance, New York, February 2021

365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition is a collective digital performance and the blueprint of a series exploring automated conversational platforms and digital framing.

At its core, 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition is a circular and in motion live performance about my silent year during the pandemic. This performative experience/ collective experiment explores our bodily and spatial perception/sensation about unseen storytelling and voiceless pain.

I had the desire to connect my ups, downs and the “in-betweens” to a digital tribe. I researched how to express constant change into a motionless chronology, from one country to another, from a multitude of feelings to an impalpable audience. 

My main focus was/is/will continue to revolve around creating intimacy through a screen. 

How could I go beyond the passive and automated nature of our smart and advertisement-based technological ecosystem? What could be the most minimalist way to be close, real and to become a lasting memory without mimicking reality or depending on high-priced tools like VR or AR?

Proximity is my ultimate obsession with 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition. 

I do not believe in injunctions nor hashtags. I wonder what the true meaning of social distancing is when over communication has become a universal religious business.

With 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition, I review the brutality of 365 degrees of claustrophobia and unprecedented introspection. 

Aside from History and culture, what is the visceral relationship between traditional territories and the public space? How do we articulate and choose togetherness in between wars?

I had to have a face-off with myself before starting this process. 

Since resilience is a part of my DNA, I seem immune to some forms of suffering. Everyday suffering feels so integrated into my skin, mind and soul so that I don’t notice it and act as a functional masochist.

I suffer but am unable to process it. I am unfolding one year of silent yet throbbing violence. 

Click, touch, swap, mute, unmute, video, no video… Those clinical and miniature hand-gesture dances are the starting point of this collective motion experience.

With the first performance of this series, I ask the audience to join me during my memory work out and my revolution. 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition is unscripted and unstable. I intend to disturb our dependence on digital convenience, seamless interaction and sin for ultra definition. And to do so, I can’t trust myself.

I was born and raised in Lyon, France. When I was in high school, I tried my best not to spend time in a classroom. I was procrastinating most of the time in a small park close by. Coincidentally, the museum called Les Frères Lumières was also there, in the middle of the park, avoiding the crude rhythm of time. I dedicated a lot of time over there observing images, people, perspectives and framing.

This period gave me a lot of opportunities to think about space and people. During 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition, I ask the audience how many frames per second they desire to experience during the unseen sequences of the performance.

The audience becomes in charge of the performance; they have one thing to do...
Blink as quickly as they can.
Blink until the screen disappear. 
Blink until they forget about themselves.