Downstream

In a former swimming pool I attach ca. 30 threads to my jeans. Via hooks in walls and ceiling the threads are hanging with small objects attached. "Swimming" down the threads tense, thereby lifting the objects till they are up to the hooks. Further tension breaks the threads letting the objects fall. After swimming the full stretch all threads are broken. I lay down on the ground with a tail of threads. I stand up and run from one wall to the other and out.
Photo's on the website of Arai Shin-ichi: http://www.araiart.jp/viva2006.html

Performed Oct 2006 in Viva! Art Action, organized by 6 artist run centers from the Montreal region in collaboration with the 14th SoToDo congress for performance art, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
                       

photo: arai shin-ichi