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FRANCIS
ALŸS
Duett
The green line
In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leak-
ing can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo.The walk
was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004,
I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can
of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of
the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of
Jerusalem. 58 liters of green paint were used to trace 24
km. Shortly after, a filmed documentation of the walk was
presented to a number of people whom I invited to react
spontaneously to the action and the circumstances with-
in which it was performed.