Performance proposal for an ensemble of at least 6 performers (event score).
by Diego Chamy & Vered Nethe, October 2007

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In the first half of 2007, Vered Nethe was doing mail art, sending collages and drawings by post to different people that we didn't know so much. One of those persons was Marc Baron, whom I met with twice at the NPAI Festival, in France. Though most of the works that Vered was sending were hers, we were doing some of them together, and I suddenly found myself involved in making collages and drawings. The work that we wanted to send to Marc was a kind of collage that was made out of a cardboard of around 100 x 50cms with five holes on it. Three of these holes had photos of Vered’s family attached on from the back. The piece had also a cloth stripe attached to it that allows a person to hang it from his neck. It was as simple as beautiful, but it had to be used and not just exposed - an idea that we also have for any other art work, but in this case it was clear that the collage wanted to be somehow used. How to use it? I thought about sending Marc, together with the collage, an event score that will include Vered’s work. That was the first sketch of "To Marc Baron".

A month later, Christian Kesten, from the ensemble Maulwerker, told me that the ensemble was looking for pieces with performative aspects and he asked me if I have something to send them. I thought then about the score that we had sent to Marc. We took the piece and developed it so that it can fit an ensemble. I titled the result "To Marc Baron" and sent it to Christian. Some time later he told me that the ensemble didn’t accept the work because of the part where the performers were asked to kiss the audience. The refusal was expected; the unexpected thing was Performing the Cube, a lovely video that Marc Baron made and sent us some time after.