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Dora Garcia

Quel putain de merveilleux public
09.14.10 - 10.17.10
Performance — BBB centre d'art

Quel putain de merveilleux public, Dora Garcia

Photo credit : Adrien Duquesnel, Le Printemps de Septembre

Dora Garcia offers four other shows.

A woman addresses the audience:
Hello everyone and thank you for coming to this conference "What a Fucking Wonderful Audience". I think a little introduction is necessary, especially about the word 'whore' which accompanies the word 'wonderful'. The word "whore" in this context is not offensive. It is a popular way of saying "really", "extremely", "excessively". In some contexts, the word "whore" loses all possible tension, it becomes, so to speak, "emptied of its meaning", setting aside its original meaning, linked to the sexual act. This is one of those contexts. "What a fucking wonderful audience" only means "What a really wonderful audience". But, of course, it doesn't sound quite so silly. According to legend, the phrase "What a fucking wonderful audience" was the only phrase comedian Lenny Bruce could utter during his only performance in Sydney in 1962; he was arrested immediately after uttering it.


Apparently the word "whore" made sense in this context...