Green Flash
Course de lenteur
Fanny de Chaillé
6 July 2014, 4pm
rue Jules Simon, Rennes
Jan Kopp, associate artist for Courir les Rues, invites Fanny de Chaillé.
“The race is a contest of speed; competition over a distance, a given route. I want to organize a race in the public space for a large number of people. In these times of promoting a certain speed, fighting spirit, competitiveness, productivity, I want to organize a race that would run counter to its vocation, reverse the process and invent a new rule: the loser is the winner!
This race is a slow race, it follows the rules of this type of competition but its purpose is reversed: This is the one which comes last, which is the slowest, who wins the race. Anyone can register, the course is around 50 meters and the rule is simple: it is to move forward, always forward. Stops and reversals are prohibited. So, advance, as slowly as possible in order to reach the finish line last.”
Fanny de Chaillé
