A Man is nude in the middle of a room in which the public circulates. A woman dressed very elegantly approaches, places a record player which she starts up, and then begins biting the nude man. Each bite leaves blue marks.

The performances lasts until the whole body is covered with bite marks. Each time the record finishes she pauses, very slowly and puts on another record. The performance can be done with an elderly woman who bites the man, children, several women, etc. (the description doesn’t need to appear in the program). It is intended to be a variation on the video performance of Vito Acconci « Applications » December 70. A woman kissed his torso leaving her lipstick marks. The performance (or perhaps even art in general) is a constant dialogue: with the public, with past artists and with oneself. In this dynamic, I do this performance with a playful sense. But this playfulness is maybe only a mask hiding a certain poetry: the marks left by the woman are at times painful, pleasureful; blue in colour like small skies with teeth.

Conception Yann Marussich

Interprétation Yann Marussich / Salomé Davoine

Administration Perceuse Productions

Photos Aurélia Marussich

Created in Zadar(Croatia) / Zadarsnova Festival le 3rd of August 2004