Suffering, painful, animality screams out its miserable condition even when it seems peaceful. Mouth closed or mouth open, it cries out its servitude.
I want to remain a stranger | Video text audio © David Noir
It's not a question of being in good terms with anyone who doesn't want to be, nor of "making society", yuck once and for all! It's about deserving one's supposed brain capacities as an evolved individual. There is a price to be paid for becoming human: not just being.
High Tide | Turtle costume making | Mask and shell © David Noir
Details of the manufacture of the turtle costume, shell and mask, which I wished to make to carry out a crossing to the coast of the Generator.
Incarnations and metamorphoses | Photo © David Noir
Variations of personalities, supports for improvisations, play palettes, colours and metamorphoses; beyond identities lie incarnations.
I want to remain a stranger | Visual © David Noir
The contortions to gain acceptance eventually break his spine. Art doesn't make a profession of having a supple spine. I don't either.
Plastic Couples | Brainless Desire | The Amor Camps | Visual © David Noir
Even and especially when it is touched by love, the couple is a matter of non-desire. This love becomes a repulsive thing.
My animal part | My sperm dripping from my acorn | Screenshot © David Noir 2012
L'éloignement de la peur de ce que l'on est constitue une forme de raffinement de l'être. Adopter sa part animale, c'est devenir humain.
David Noir | Skin in the zoos | A monkey in the Hunting Museum | Screenshot © David Noir 2017
Performance by David Noir at the Hunting and Nature Museum for the Museum Night. Some exchanges between primates swimming in the same zoos.
"Je ne suis pas une tortue" | Marée Haute | Photo © Adrien Solis 2017
A few moments of life in the skin of a sea turtle or Can we philosophise on a day when we are laying eggs and time is running out?
Les Parques d'attraction | Christophe Imbs, David Noir | The desperate hate of Frankenstein © David Noir d'après photo © Karine Lhémon | The Generator
As Victor says about the spider and the nettle - not Dr. Frankenstein, but his friend old Hugo - I love hate because we hate it.
Relationship leaves me out in the cold | Squash mask © David Noir
My great adaptability is an absolute violence to me. I hate any relationship that forces me to do so. Rare is the one that goes the way I want it to.