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11.08.07 'something unaccountable escaping' (Book of Kisses Peckham) I Love Peckham 07 Festival of Arts, London.

HD Camera: Cristóbal Bianchi, image editing by mmmmm. collaborators
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This performance errupts everyday relations with the personal delicate contact of the lips. The participants negociate the innocent request to kiss a stranger. In so doing they define a language that allows them to kiss a stranger in a public space documented in film. Power relations, uniforms, official roles dissolve into a childhood desire. These are the lips of Peckham between 5.30pm and 7.30pm on Saturday August 11th 2007. They are printed in a book, their geographical mapping on a page, some close, a few single, some at opposite ends of the pages are traces of the action. A social relation is maped in a geographic space. We have made this action in Santiago, Chile and Vienna, Austria, each time new cultural relations towards personal contact and the mapping of the body are expressed.
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Peckham Arts Festival 07, London Luna Montenegro - live art, Adrian Fisher - live art, Laura Armishaw - live art, Cristóbal Bianchi - HD digital video camera. Thank you to everyone who participated in the live art action.

11.08.07 ' I Love Peckham 07, Festival of Arts, London. Strangers are invited to paint their lips and kiss each other, then make a print of their lips in a book; 'The Book of Kisses'. Social preconceptions dissolve, power structures crumble, bringing the lips in contact with another being is a powerful social and sacred action.s a powerful social and sacred action.