{"id":12706,"title":"Art kept me out of jail (Homage to Jacques Mesrine)","dimensions":"04:00:00","date_begin":"2008-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":128,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"Mesrine, Jacques, 87, Homage, Jan, Fabre, performance","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":26,"permalink":"art-kept-me-out-of-jail-homage-to-jacques-mesrine","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Performance","nl":"Performance","fr":"Performance"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/027/213/large/MARAN_04_1F9I1295.jpg?1425978883","poster_credits":"(c)Angelos bvba, photo: Attilio Maranzano","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e22.4.2008\u003cbr /\u003eParis, Mus\u0026eacute;e du Louvre, Galerie Daru \u0026amp; Cour Napol\u0026eacute;on\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this performance, running for four hours Fabre transforms himself in the diverse disguises of Jacques Mesrine, French enemy of the state number one. He tries to escape from the institute Louvre, where a big Fabre exhibition is running. He quotes the gangster and will eventually die, like Mesrine, in a hail of bullets.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;Two o\u0026#39;clock in the morning.\u003cbr /\u003eAlone in my hotel room again.\u003cbr /\u003eI need that.\u003cbr /\u003eSometimes I give too much to the outside world.\u003cbr /\u003eI\u0026#39;m physically shattered.\u003cbr /\u003eMy brain is aflame and inside my skull it\u0026#39;s\u003cbr /\u003emuch too warm.\u003cbr /\u003eIt was a hellish but exciting five-hour journey.\u003cbr /\u003eMy performance \u0026#39;Homage to Jacques Mesrine\u0026#39;\u003cbr /\u003ein the 70m-long Galerie Daru in the Louvre.\u003cbr /\u003eBut what a kick (my whole body was quivering)\u003cbr /\u003eto be riddled with bullets at the end of the\u003cbr /\u003eperformance (the same number of bullets\u003cbr /\u003ewith which Jacques Mesrine was murdered\u003cbr /\u003eby the French police in the centre of Paris)\u003cbr /\u003eat the feet of the goddess Nike.\u003cbr /\u003e(And yet I escaped and got out alive from the finest\u003cbr /\u003eand best secured prison in France, the Louvre.)\u003cbr /\u003eTomorrow I can go home.\u003cbr /\u003eTo my free zone, Antwerp.\u003cbr /\u003eAnd sleep, that will be for tomorrow.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(Jan Fabre, Paris, 22 April 2008)\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e22.4.2008\u003cbr /\u003eParis, Mus\u0026eacute;e du Louvre, Galerie Daru \u0026amp; Cour Napol\u0026eacute;on\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn deze vier uur durende performance transformeert Fabre in de verschillende gedaantes van Jacques Mesrine om uit het Louvre te ontsnappen. Hij citeert de Franse gangster en zal uiteindelijk net als Mesrine door een spervuur om het einde komen.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;Two o\u0026#39;clock in the morning.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlone in my hotel room again.\u003cbr /\u003eI need that.\u003cbr /\u003eSometimes I give too much to the outside world.\u003cbr /\u003eI\u0026#39;m physically shattered.\u003cbr /\u003eMy brain is aflame and inside my skull it\u0026#39;s\u003cbr /\u003emuch too warm.\u003cbr /\u003eIt was a hellish but exciting five-hour journey.\u003cbr /\u003eMy performance \u0026#39;Homage to Jacques Mesrine\u0026#39;\u003cbr /\u003ein the 70m-long Galerie Daru in the Louvre.\u003cbr /\u003eBut what a kick (my whole body was quivering)\u003cbr /\u003eto be riddled with bullets at the end of the\u003cbr /\u003eperformance (the same number of bullets\u003cbr /\u003ewith which Jacques Mesrine was murdered\u003cbr /\u003eby the French police in the centre of Paris)\u003cbr /\u003eat the feet of the goddess Nike.\u003cbr /\u003e(And yet I escaped and got out alive from the finest\u003cbr /\u003eand best secured prison in France, the Louvre.)\u003cbr /\u003eTomorrow I can go home.\u003cbr /\u003eTo my free zone, Antwerp.\u003cbr /\u003eAnd sleep, that will be for tomorrow.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(Jan Fabre, Paris, 22 April 2008)\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":110,"name":"Jan Fabre","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}