This performance was created in collaboration with Inés Ballesteros. We became friends through the
"Vrijdagmarkt" (Friday Market) in Antwerp. It's an auction flea market taking place every Friday in
the centre of the city. After a given hour, a lot of the goods proposed for sale are left abandoned
and a garbage truck comes to collect them.
This place is a gathering point where artists and students collect a lot of free material that
sometimes ends up cluttering our studios and living spaces.
We came up with the idea of this performance when Inés had to leave Antwerp and get rid of
some of her belongings. We decided to declutter our spaces through this performative action.
5,4,3,2,1 Nobody? is an upside-down auction. Everything is free. You just have to be the first
one to raise your hand and, in case of conflict, to find a way to solve it.
We were counting down from 5 until "Nobody". If nobody had raised his or her hand, the item was
mercilessly destroyed by the "Smashing Machine" that I designed and built for this event.
Eventually, the performance went well, and almost every object has been saved from destruction.
