Tout ce que j’ai je le porte avec moi

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Tout ce que j'ai je le porte avec moi, Gare de Lyon, Paris, 13th of June 2012, photo Boris Greiner

Tout ce que j'ai je le porte avec moi, Gare de Lyon, Paris, 13th of June 2012, photo Bozena Koncic Badurina

Tout ce que j'ai je le porte avec moi, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 14th of June 2012

Tout ce que j'ai je le porte avec moi, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 14th of June 2012

Tout ce que j'ai je le porte avec moi, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 14th of June 2012

Tous ce que j’ai je le porte avec moi (All that’s mine I carry with me) was realized during Simplon Express/The Return, a project organized by Ida Biard’s Gallery of Tenants.

“Mobile, ephemeral exhibition Simplon Express was realized in June 1989 on a train traveling from Paris to Zagreb. 23 years later we are revisiting the same itinerary with new passengers but in opposite direction, from Zagreb to Paris: the Return” (quotation from the text: Simplon Express/The Return)

My participation in the project consisted in a performative journey-voyage dressed as a Parisian, carying a custom made suitcase. During the trip I read texts in Italian and French related to my childhood and experience of Europe.

Once in Paris at Gare de Lyon, I opened the suitcase and revealed its content to the public. The suitcase contained a custom made foldable chair, table, old gramophone with the record Sous le ciel de Paris, bottle of wine and a glass.

I drank a glass of wine while listening to the melody from the old gramophone.

The act was repeated next day in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

Sound: Jacques Helian Orchestra, original record, 1951

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