19-21 February, 1997
"Ville de Paris" studio showcases
20 minutes - 20 participants
with: vincent dupont, pascal queneau, luc favrou, gaetan bulourde, didier silhol, eric martin, marco berrettini, bernard perrot, frederic werle, gil grillo, mathieu doze, alain buffard, mark tompkins, jean-louis badet, jeannot nimes, christophe wavelet, xavier lot, yves candau, christophe gayraal, gilles touyard
video: mariana bouhsira
music: gerome nox
project: (noun)
1) image of a situation or a state which one hopes to reach- a project to travel,get married, criminal projects, etc...
2) work, preparatory draft, first state- to develop a book project - the future of a building to be built- to draw up a planning project
type. (noun)
1) group of characteristics organized into a whole making it possible to distinguish categories of objects, individuals and facts- of no particular type
2) person or thing that embodies the main elements of an abstract type, which can be cited as an example- it's the type of business which
3) MOD. (fam. or pop.) ordinary individual- a nice type of guy-/pop. "male" lover
"For this project involving an experiment with time and place, I asked 20 participants with different backgrounds to answer the question about representations of male identity in one minute. The results are shown in the form of a list to be seen as a live sculpture rather than as a performance or a commercial object."
christian rizzo
"Nice Guys",
"(...) Projet-type (s) is a performance seen by the audience from the street.
It's about questioning male identity. Twenty guys, of no particular type, are cut off behind a window - as if they were in a bar playing cards or watching the telly.
They look sweet.
They're not fighting, but they're not really joking around either - just sitting side by side in an elegant way, even when they are isolated, projected one by one against a wall next to the window, above the slogan "No heroes, anymore".
They have one minute to answer the question about male identity in these solos that appear on the screen.
The images often involve their bodies (shaving, washing, stroking).
Narcissistic, perhaps - and definitely suave (like after-shave lotion in an environment electrified by Gerome Nox's powerful, straightforward guitar music. (...)"
Marie-Christine Vernay, Liberation - 25 February 1997