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Fabienne came to do my portrait.
I would have liked to photograph her in return.
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Dr. Frère inaugurated his beautiful wedding hall in Tourrettes Levens. For this occasion, I created a sign saying “and above all, don’t forget to love each other.”
Minister Estrosi came an hour late.
During his speech, my mobile phone rang.
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At the Soardi’s New Year’s Eve party, I danced a lot.
The women were all beautiful.
I had prepared costumes, but no one used them.
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Currently, two or three students are writing theses and dissertations about the Nice School and creativity in Nice.
I wonder what they can or will manage to write.
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The Nivèse Screens prevent people from photographing Sosno’s Square Head, but they do protect the Square Head from graffiti.
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I no longer go to the theater for fear of falling asleep.
That’s not true; I don’t go for fear of feeling jealous and wanting to go back to theater myself.
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The last film “The Station” shown at the Artistique was boring. Rated 7/10 for being too long, 6/10, and too pretentious, 7/10; it should have lasted 11 minutes, but it ran for 111 minutes.
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Annie and I wrote a short text “I remember Le Clézio” for the friends of Le Clézio association.
They told me he talked about me in his latest book. That pleased me; I thought he had forgotten me.
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Visit at Steiner’s workshop at Spada space.
Very messy.
I don’t understand his taste for abstraction.
I remember in the 60s people said that abstraction, tachism, was over.
But Steiner doesn’t think like others, so we can’t judge him like others.
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Two official invitations. One from the Prefect and the other from Christian Estrosi. I will attend both; I like to watch the small Nice bourgeoisie shaking hands with the power of the Central State.
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There is always something happening in Nice.
Even France Culture comes to the Pastrouil to “snoop around.”
I wonder whether it’s out of guilt, for spying,
to ease their regional conscience,
to take the temperature,
to humiliate the people of Nice…
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For now, I support Bayrou because he is the most regionalist and decentralizing of the candidates.
That being said, if Bayrou does not defend more quickly the right to the flourishing of the Basque, Corsican, Breton, Occitan, Catalan, Alsatian, and Flemish cultures within their linguistic territories, I propose to all the associations of minority languages the following procedure:
List the total number of municipalities and mayors in Occitania, Corsica, the Basque Country, Brittany, French Flanders, Alsace, and Northern Catalonia, find their emails (not too difficult, there are more than 5000) and send them the following letter:
Dear Mayor,
Here’s the situation: your municipality is located in the linguistic territory of…(one of these territories: Occitan Basque Corsican Breton Flemish Alsatian Catalan) your language and culture are in danger: it must be made known
and accordingly have a candidate who will defend the right of YOUR CULTURE to emerge from the water.
If nobody presents themselves, I propose the singer Renaud or Siméoni or
even, if no one sacrifices, a sincere comedian like me
BEN VAUTIER
(I will take the opportunity to give ON MY SITE
the outlines of my program AND ARGUMENTS)
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On New Year’s Day, I am always afraid of forgetting
and giving the same gift that I gave the previous year.
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My idea of a New Year’s Eve party in a bus didn’t work out, but the evening was a success. We danced a lot.
There was a lot to drink
and Karim as a DJ was very good.
Karim has something of Prince Charles.
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Thanks to the bus project, I will have a personal exhibition in the sex shop at the station with a buffet outside.
Thus, all the bourgeois will have the excuse to enter by saying: it’s contemporary art.
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At 16 or 18 years old, one could go everywhere in Nice. Today, you can barely sit on a bench. We could go into gardens at night. Today, everything is locked. The music kiosk in Albert I garden is closed. The jetty is closed.
Hyde Park does not exist in Nice, indeed England wins the freedom of expression war in parks.
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I believe that the Windsor Hotel prefers decoration to art.
They wanted me to restore my room, so I offered to put even more texts on the ceiling and on the wall, but this idea scares them. I sense they want something clean from Knoll.
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A slew of exhibitions from Nice artists at the Mamac.
Dupuy on the first floor
Marc Chevalier and Cédric Teissere on the first
It seems Perlein got tugged by the ears for forgetting that Nice is also creative.
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There are a lot of artists in Nice who are not talked about
There are a lot of artists in Nice who suffer from fame
There are a lot of artists in Nice who are formidable
There are a lot of artists in Nice who decide for others
There should be an exhibition for creation in Nice that would mix all participants without exception
those from the Villa Arson living in Nice,
those exiled to Paris, Toulouse, Toulon,
those no longer talked about
those who defend Niçoise and Occitan
those from Saint Roch
those from Smolett Street
in short, a vast and healthy mess
NICE CITY OF EUROPEAN CULTURE
I am 100% for it.
