Gabriel Lester, the host of the night, comes with his drum-set. The sounds range from suspended snare to exploded aquarium in four steps.

Benjamin Esdraffo plays Orson’s Theme by Michel Legrand, re-engineered by Morten Norbye Halvorsen with that indelible help of Marc Lare.

Alain Rondest, the mind reader, enters the brain of an audience with a quest of understanding what they expect to see on stage  tonight. His findings will be displayed in subsequent acts:

Nicholas Matranga falls on the stage with an obscene joke about animals facing the end of the world.

“Hey, Elephant, why have we never done it before!?” asks Nicholas.

A story about possesion of words and rights is extracted from Agency’s archive and read by Ellen LeBlond-Schrader and Gabriel Lester.

Benoit Rosemont, the magician, pulls tricks about memory, words and numbers in an exact order.

Aurelien Froment, the assistant of Benoit Rosemont, learns several things including that one.

Adva Zakai dissects body and words, pulling them back together again in unseen combinations

William Holden and Geoffrey Carrey, two characters fostered by Dora Garcia, meet each other for the first time. Gentlemen’s conversation revolve around their childhood in Hollywood.

A song by Benjamin Seror is played louder than an introduction.

Buyng Chul Kim makes portraits of an audience in they style of Parisian artists: Benoit Maire, Etienne Chambaud, Sturtevant, etc.

The theory of relativity is explained by Marilyn Monro to Albert Einstein through voices of Mai Abu Eldahab and Will Holder.

Another joke by Nicholas Matranga.

Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas reading An Autobiography of Any Being Including Every One Before in the presence of Rene’s painting.

True authorship of the painting is revealed. Thanks to Pierre Huyghe.

After painting is removed a sculpture by Audrey Cottin comes on stage. It undresses itself. Lauren van Gogh cannot see it.

Two video images of Carmelo Bene are being operated by Alex Cecchetti and Mark Geffriaud in order to synchronise them on black screen.

Will Holder reads Black Dada Manifesto by Adam Pendleton.

Untitled, (An Orson Welles’ painting from 1931), 2009. Lamba Print by Lee Welch. 30.5 x 23 cm.

Credits.

All images by Aurélien Mole (unless otherwise stated)