It appears that Sabine's journey in Searching for herself, which bagan 1987 with the projecting of "Ex" and also the title of one of her projects entitled "Search My Double / I'm Looking For Myself", has changed its path or in any case progressed. After 21 one years of searching for herself in, New York, Rome, Paris, Torino and Avignon, what has she found?
What she delivered at the 15th edition of the Artissima contemporary art fair in Turin could be a clue.
In June 2008 Sabine founded the SDC and launched it as a group on Facebook, she invited 30 of its members - by choice - to participate in her performance "Scelta" (Choice) produced for the fair.
The performance consisted of wearing a simple white T-shirt with her name written on it, black trousers and a black jacket and visiting the fair. Each participant was given personalized business cards of the Corporation. The performance lasted 4 hours from 12:00 – 16:00 on Friday, 7th November.
What emerged from my participation, which I throughly enjoyed and gave me the chance to meet some refreshingly nice people, was the sense that in contemporary society the desperate search for our identity - which reaches foreign lands, virtual spaces, displays and screens of every description – leads us to others, we "choose" others and they "choose" us. So, maybe we (the participants) are all a bit like Sabine Delafon.
I think that creativity is a gelling agent in this project and that it is the key to social well-being and individual expression and that Sabine's work documents this eloquently.
Merci beaucoup Sabine for this experience!
I wish all the best to the future of the Sabine Delafon Corporation, whatever it may be.
The SDC performance "Scelta" was documented by video and photography by the participants of the performance. Participants were not paid to participate, they chose to. Each participants behaviour at the fair was totally spontaneous and not pre-meditated. The T-Shirts are on sale.
Marcia Caines
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