Performance with film and pool noodle

History of the Pool Noodle is a performance created for The Cure curated par Jeff Guess and Judith Perron.

The foam "Pool Noodle" is traditionally red, yellow, blue, green, purple, pink or orange. Both Rick Koster and Steve Bartman claim - simultaneously - to have invented the Pool Noodle in the 80's, an object which embodies the use of polyethylenes, cheap materials that have invaded the planet and contaminated the world. 

The pool noodle is one of the most emblematic objects of our time, when the notion of happiness merges with well-being.

In Plastique, le grand emballement, Nathalie Gontard talks about the kind of hypnosis that absorbs our attention when we are reminded of plastic objects such as the pool noodle or the pool fry.

Suddenly, our whole mind is absorbed by this material.

We will explore its uses, from acquagym to team building to amateur do-it-yourself, through a series of "ritual gestures" taken from a selection of the best demo videos from the 80s to today. In order to invent other relationships to the weird things of this world, these emblematic gestures will be reactivated during a collective trance-performance assisted by the incongruous "pool fry".