avec le Vide... les pleins pouvoirs, 2006

First part : performance, Blues bar

Second part : video, municipal theater

Third part : performance, Kpal festival

Fontenay-le-Comte (France)

      Following Yves Klein's exhibition "La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l'état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée" (the so-called "Vide" exhibition),

       Albert Camus sent him a note on a Nrf headed paper on which he just wrote :
"Avec le vide, les pleins pouvoirs".

       Speaking of his participation in a group exhibition in Antwerp, Yves Klein declared during a conference he gave in 1959 at the Sorbonne: "I wanted to reduce my pictorial action to the most extreme limits for this exhibition. I could have made symbolic gestures, like sweeping the space reserved for me in this room, I could even have painted the walls with a dry brush, without color.

       No! Those few words I said were already too much. I shouldn't have come at all and even my name shouldn't have been in the catalog."

       After improvising a provocative speech in a bar, projecting a video borrowing the Symphonie Monoton-Silence in a theater, during this third part of the performance avec le Vide... les pleins pouvoirs, OliveOlivier introduced himself to the audience by limiting his artistic
expression as much as possible: dressed in white, smoking white cigarettes, drinking water, he did not say a word.

       Yet he managed to communicate with the people (including friends) he met at the party where he was programmed.

       At no time did they realize that he hadn’t say a single word the entire evening, or even that he was performing.