Fractale M
Performance
Biennale "à vos arts", Rennes Métropole, France. 2002.Performance and installation including: reassembled laboratory glass still, beech supporting structure (450 x 150 x 150 cm), red plexiglass plate, drawn map (geology of the Vilaine watershed + molecular organization of water), notebook samples and dilutions, water samples from the Vilaine watershed, heating lighting above the still and heating of the room to 25°C.
Tour of the Vilaine watershed for 21 days, with around fifty water samples
taken at selected locations: river banks, lakes, outskirts of Rennes, wastewater
treatment stations outlets, etc.
All these samples were annotated on the geological map and in the notebook.
The performance (during the exhibition) consisted of diluting these waters
in the still, while mixing them with “wild” water taken from a preserved
site. The notebook transcribes the mathematical and sensitive operations of
this performance.
The heat diffused above the still contributes to the organic transformation
of the mixed waters, through the appearance of bacteria and else.
At the end of the operation, the water transformed and diluted into an homeopathic
solution was returned to the Vilaine and its tributaries. The Vilaine river
is renamed Fractale M.
