Temps d’Images 2009 Experiment
Temps d’Images 2009 Experiment

My Name is Neo (for fifteen minutes)
Can one be “the chosen one” for fifteen minutes? Movie time, where everyone projects himself into one superhero or another, gives us the illusion of being something we will never be; makes us cross secret and unknown universes; shows us ourselves in the midst of salutary catharsis. What is left once the screen goes blank? Once the projector lamp is turned off? Once Batman, James Bond, or “Neo – the One” have disappeared?
Nicole Borgeat
performance: Yan Duyvendak
directed by: Imanol Atorrasagasti
in collaboration with: Nicole Borgeat
coproduction: Centre Pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève
About the artists
Yan Duyvendak was born in Holland in 1965 and has lived in Geneva and Barcelona. He was trained at the Ecole Superieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and has worked in performance since 1995. Duyvendak regularly presents his performances at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Exit performing arts Festival in Helsinki, Art Unlimited Basel, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Guangju Biennale (2004), the Image Forum, Institute of the Moving Image, Tokyo, the Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, Vooruit, Gent, at the fFstival d’Avignon (2008), or at the Theaterspektakel Zurich. His video work is in numerous public and private art collections, going from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, to the Museum für Kommunikation, Bern. In 2004, Duyvendak received, for the third consecutive year, the “Swiss Art Award”, as well as the “Namics kunstpreis fur neue medien”.