What is "getting hard on the side" in art if not "getting hard on the side"? But not in a sinister, neurotic way. No, it's about having a happy hard-on for yourself. But not in a sinister, neurotic way. No, on the contrary. It's about having a joyful hard-on for oneself, getting excited by one's own excitement, plunging into the appetite of one's own existence and enjoying one's own creative faculties. It is not a question of breaking with the world of others, but rather of knowing one's own, intimately, without shame, before allowing oneself to consider understanding the one around us. This is, in my opinion, the approach that many of us lack; in particular, and this is the most serious, those who claim to guide us.

Performance is an eternally virgin land, with paradisiacal borders blurred and preciously maintained by those who like to get lost in it. The ones I propose are childish performances for grown-ups where incoherence is not without tails and heads and where nudity is the most serious of costumes.

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Image of an ass in the form of a self-portrait | David Noir | La Toison dort | Photo © Karine Lhémon

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"I don't want to be reduced to that," she will say. "It only shows one side of me," he'll counter. "Pretending to be something other than an ass" I'll say.

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Breast Feast | "The Fleece Sleeps" served on a platter | Episode 7 | Screenshot © David Noir

Fencing Diary J-37

Our seriousness, our torments, our pleasures and our laughable misfortunes will soon be there, served on a platter! The ticket office is open...

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Le choix du pire : A mort le libre arbitre | Any Tingay | Les Parques d'attraction | David Noir | Photo © Karine Lhémon

Fencing Diary J-38

Attack at worst if you don't come back to yourself. I create projects for the sole purpose of disengaging myself from the ordinary alienation of my own stupidity. What about you?

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"Les Puritains" by David Noir at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien | From left to right: Stéphane Desvignes, Sonia Codhant, Jean-François Rey, Jacques Meystre, Jean-Hugues Laleu | Photo © Karine Lhémon

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A: Farewell | An excerpt from The Puritans will sum up what I would like to say today in other words to my team, if I could find the energy.

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David Noir's "Les Parques d'attraction" at the Generator | Quand tu jouis | Photo © David Noir

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A small promotional slogan in favour of pornography that everyone is carrying and that I think is simply good to put forward.

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