{"id":18346,"title":"The Perfect Kiss, Antwerp 1976","dimensions":"29.5 x 21 cm","date_begin":"1976-01-01","material":"paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":27,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA / Collection Flemish Community","cached_tag_list":"JLB James Lee Byars The Perfect Kiss","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"invitation-the-perfect-kiss","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/816/medium_500/2018_James_Lee_Byars_Photo_M_HKA_103.jpg?1538667062","cached_actor_names":"James Lee Byars","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Other","nl":"Andere","fr":"Autre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/816/large/2018_James_Lee_Byars_Photo_M_HKA_103.jpg?1538667062","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Leo Dohmen had a \u0026ndash; well, is it art deco or Jugendstil? \u0026ndash; house in Berchem. That house is still there. Byars wanted to do something there because it was still an original Jugendstil decor, the walls and everything. I think twenty people turned up. The Perfect Kiss. That was just James standing on a small shelf. [...] Those were things that he did here and there, that was not a one-off thing. It is perhaps the shortest statement he made: standing on a podium and moving his lips for a moment, barely visible.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Patrick Verelst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Patrick Verhelst performed The Perfect Kiss at Leo Dohmen, Generaal van Merlenstraat 44, in that Art Nouveau quarter in Antwerp, close to the Cogels-Osylei: there is a kind of diamond-shaped square, the four houses are the four seasons and one of the four was inhabited by Leo Dohmen. That interior was beautifully preserved. Byars must have found that wonderful. One\u0026nbsp;performance\u0026nbsp;was organised in 1976. The first Perfect Kiss was in 1974, but after that he still performed it.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Yves Gevaert\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Leo Dohmen had een, is het nu art deco of Jugendstil, huis in Berchem. Dat huis staat er nog. Byars wou daar graag iets doen omdat het nog een origineel Jugendstil decor was, de muren en alles. Ik denk dat er twintig man is gekomen. The Perfect Kiss. Dat was gewoon James die op een plankje stond. [\u0026hellip;] Dat waren dingen die hij hier en daar deed, dat was niet iets eenmalig. Het is misschien het kortste statement dat hij heeft gemaakt: op een podium gaan staan en even zijn lippen bewegen, nauwelijks zichtbaar.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBron: ongepubliceerd interview met Patrick Verelst\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Patrick Verhelst heeft The Perfect Kiss\u0026nbsp;uitgevoerd bij Leo Dohmen, Generaal van Merlenstraat 44, in dat Art Nouveau kwartier in Antwerpen, dicht bij de Cogels-Osylei, daar is een soort ruitvormig plein, de vier huizen zijn de vier jaargetijden en \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n van de vier was bewoond door Leo Dohmen. Dat interieur was prachtig bewaard. Byars zal dat prachtig gevonden hebben. Daar is een uitvoering van die performance georganiseerd in 1976. De eerste Perfect Kiss was in 1974, maar daarna heeft hij dat nog uitgevoerd.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBron: ongepubliceerd interview met Yves Gevaert\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Leo Dohmen had a \u0026ndash; well, is it art deco or Jugendstil? \u0026ndash; house in Berchem. That house is still there. Byars wanted to do something there because it was still an original Jugendstil decor, the walls and everything. I think twenty people turned up. The Perfect Kiss. That was just James standing on a small shelf. [...] Those were things that he did here and there, that was not a one-off thing. It is perhaps the shortest statement he made: standing on a podium and moving his lips for a moment, barely visible.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Patrick Verelst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Patrick Verhelst performed The Perfect Kiss at Leo Dohmen, Generaal van Merlenstraat 44, in that Art Nouveau quarter in Antwerp, close to the Cogels-Osylei: there is a kind of diamond-shaped square, the four houses are the four seasons and one of the four was inhabited by Leo Dohmen. That interior was beautifully preserved. Byars must have found that wonderful. One\u0026nbsp;performance\u0026nbsp;was organised in 1976. The first Perfect Kiss was in 1974, but after that he still performed it.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Yves Gevaert\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Leo Dohmen had a \u0026ndash; well, is it art deco or Jugendstil? \u0026ndash; house in Berchem. That house is still there. Byars wanted to do something there because it was still an original Jugendstil decor, the walls and everything. I think twenty people turned up. The Perfect Kiss. That was just James standing on a small shelf. [...] Those were things that he did here and there, that was not a one-off thing. It is perhaps the shortest statement he made: standing on a podium and moving his lips for a moment, barely visible.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Patrick Verelst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Patrick Verhelst performed The Perfect Kiss at Leo Dohmen, Generaal van Merlenstraat 44, in that Art Nouveau quarter in Antwerp, close to the Cogels-Osylei: there is a kind of diamond-shaped square, the four houses are the four seasons and one of the four was inhabited by Leo Dohmen. That interior was beautifully preserved. Byars must have found that wonderful. One\u0026nbsp;performance\u0026nbsp;was organised in 1976. The first Perfect Kiss was in 1974, but after that he still performed it.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSource: unpublished interview with Yves Gevaert\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":100,"name":"James Lee Byars","category":{"en":"About","nl":"Over","fr":"Sur"}}]}