When was the last time you did something naughty? Twice a week during the months of October and November, Yan Duyvendak—who was recently awarded the Grand Prix suisse du théâtre—and the 31 co-authors of this project will invite you to participate in several series of micro-interventions in the public space. In groups of 8 to 12 people, you will perform simple, almost invisible performative scores, creating small situations of which you are at once initiator and audience. A legal but exciting disorder, subtle disruptions from which emerge a certain poetry of the absurd and of which only you know the origin. There are several series of actions, and the content of the day’s three actions is revealed to you when you arrive at Arsenic. You then leave to perform them in the vicinity, before returning to share your experiences while enjoying a complimentary drink.

Yan Duyvendak, originally from the Netherlands, lives in Geneva and Marseille. His career as a performance artist began in 1995. In the course of the years, he has increasingly become a point of reference in Swiss and European art. His art underlines in particular how the overwhelming mass of televised, computer and mental images as well as our social codes and other rituals of our fun society thicken the curtain between ourselves and reality. Yet his work never fails to affirm human dignity and show the extent to which it is imperilled by our image-dominated society.