At the gallery and across the whole Boto(x) network: IKHÉA©SERVICE N°24 Slowmo: « Le ralentisseur » We carry it out for you, or it is up to you to carry it…
At the gallery and across the whole Boto(x) network: IKHÉA©SERVICE N°24 Slowmo: « Le ralentisseur » We carry it out for you, or it is up to you to carry it out. Instructions for use: act with exaggerated slowness. Remarks: one should weigh its purpose twice before applying the instructions for use of this service. A Slowmo may be strategic (Paavo Nurmi), political (obstructionism) or dandyish (Public Image Ltd.). At a high-end opening, the service was put into practice by slowing down, unbeknownst to those present, the work of a waiter assigned to the buffet (made up almost entirely of drinks). A little over a day of training was needed to make this malicious action undetectable and thereby to strip it of all comedy. Here are the strategies implemented on the “big night” to achieve our ends: only one person had been kept for service although a very large number of guests was expected; the waiter had an insufficient number of glasses (which obliged him to leave regularly to wash a few, then dry them and hand them back to an ever-growing crowd); the buffet was equipped with a single corkscrew whose worm was slightly blunted. After two hours of madness, this almost ideal realisation of Slowmo ended all at once, when some “objectors to slowness” procured cups and chose to serve themselves by their own means. Heard around Slowmo: “It is never too late to embark on a career of Slowmo ”, “To do Slowmo is to reject the time of others in order to access one’s own time”. Affinities: anything that causes a delay; procrastination; Durations pieces of all kinds. Owners: Centre national des arts plastiques – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (IKH(S).N°24 = inv. FNAC 09-236) IKHÉA©SERVICES 2006 (Extract from Des modes d’emploi et des passages à l’acte , éditions Mix, Paris, 2010, page 85) ………………………….
