Performance von Armand de Bussy

You are the performance III, Salle d`exposition, Bremen 2022

You are the performance II, Salle d`exposition, Bremen 2022

You are the performance I, Salle d`exposition, Bremen 2022

The art is presen II, Hamburg 20. 03.2022

The art is present, Bremen 02. 11.2021

by Armand de Bussy

"Our precious waste" 2. und 3. Performance in Rialto, Venedig 2019

Mein Anliegen ist es, die enorme Verschwendung von Ressourcen, in diesem Falle am Beispiel von Fisch und Meeresfrüchten, deutlich zu machen. Durchaus essbare frische Reste von Edelfischen und Meeresfrüchten werden im Müll entsorgt, obwohl sie Menschen ernähren könnten. Außerdem ändert sich das Verhalten der Seemöven und anderer Vögel in der Stadt, die nicht mehr selbst auf Fischfang gehen, sondern mit zunehmender Aggressivität um die Reste kämpfen. Auf mehreren politischen Ebenen ist die ökologische Schädigung sichtbar, z. B. durch den Einsatz einer Plastikplane und die Gesichtslosigkeit der agierenden Menschen (Anonymous-Maske).

"destruction" Performance by Armand de Bussy, 2018

"Our Precious Waste", performance 1th. in Venice 2019 by Armand de Bussy.

Our precious Waste

Transience, oversupply, disposable society.

Venice’s fish market had just closed down its stands, the sun is shining.The artist finds himself in the middle of dozens of trash bags. Seagulls dancing around them trying to pick out the pieces of fish nobody bought this day. He decides to open the bags and finds fish for at least one week of delicious fish soup. Now the happening starts. Seagulls arrive: hasty, greedy, hungry. The artist is in the middle of the spectacle, while they fly over him, hitting him with its wings.

Slow-motion shots and soft cuts, combined with the deafening noise of the screaming gulls, allow us to immerse ourselves as a viewer in the middle of the crime scene of waste. With the seagulls at eye level, we are part of the plunder and scavenging, part of the ironic capitalist darwinism, in which fish are overfished for human being, before being thrown away on the street; and eventually not even being fed to the gulls.

This is the first part of a series of performances. To be continued.