Jérôme Bel - interview - The show must go on (2001) - fist part

Part one, 38’31 This talk between Yvane Chapuis and Jérôme Bel is the chapter number six of the Catalogue raisonné Jérôme Bel 1994-2005. With The show must go on, Jérôme Bel dissects the performance mechanisms, staging about twenty performers and a DJ who plays the last thirty years hits one after another. He plays with the performance expectations and with mirror-effects between performers and spectators. During this filmed conversation, Jérôme Bel explains his intentions at the starting of the creation process and he analyses the contrasted reactions which the performance gave rise to. « Bel’s cast of twenty, arranged so often in the simple compositional devices of semi-circle or line, is perhaps simply a list of people - presented value free, without judgement or comment, for our inspection. (...) Trained as a choreographer, Bel seems to have invented something that might better be described as conceptual time-based sculpture.