Videos
2007
And do you remember...
Performance 2007
Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin d'Hyères, France
Text: excerpt from Said the Shotgun to the Head book by Saul Williams
Music track: Coded Language from Amethyst rock star album by Saul Williams
and do you remember..., video 3'40'', 2007
“and do you remember dear ones
or has your history forsaken you?”
The performance consisted in writing with the finger on white painted windows outside of the Espace Vallès the sentence: “And do you remember dear ones or has your history forsaken you?”, repeated several times until covering the entire surface of windows. At the same time, inside the gallery, plunged into the twilight, Saul Williams's track Coded language played during David's Paredes happening.
“i sweep through city streets
my wing out-stretched
making mothers
clutch their young
and remember.
and do you remember, dear ones
or has your history forsaken you?
there were tales told ‘round fires
mysteries coded in songs
chants and uprisings
centuries of art
all incantations
calling forth this day”Saul Williams,
Said the Shotgun to the Head
