"La Catimini"
At the begining it was a performance. I try to remember all the places i was.
You remember a moment, a little story and after a name comes. I write the name on a post-it and i put it on a wall. If there are passersby, often, i speak about my little stories.
"La Catimini" come from a langage game, because in french we say :
"Je pars en Australie" and "Je pars en catimini"
"I go in Australia" and "I go discretly"
It's in the french langage, "en Australie" is a State, a nation, with border, laws...etc, "en catimini" is a state of mind.
In this space between a "State and a state", i begin to write a text including geographic descriptions from a lot of different sources (1000 pages, in reference to the concept of "Pangea Ultima)) and a project for a flag (is an test de Rorschach, where the mark is a double world map). In Berlin for an exhibition "data rescue", in an old east Berlin office building, i create a kind of ambassy office for "la Catimini". During the exhibition, i read the description of "La Catimini" (near 1hour by day) and takes photo of people.
The state of mind become a State.
In the concept "La Catimini" is like a state without border, it's a work in progress, materialized in different places and different times. It's a State who create is own conditions to exist and disappear.
I propose a process, about what can be materialized or not and how. Integrating questions about formats, durations, protocoles.
But what's that will be?
Something like a national day with him fireworks, an anthem, a street, a table, two chairs to speak, a speech, five hands, a breath, a doubt...or all of that...
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