Jack Balance on the beach in Ostende
Ostende, Friday, August 3rd, 2007. Just in front of the beach, near the monument for the Sea Heroes, a strange cabin appeared.
Each side of the Boz Cabin is decorated with one of the 3 clowns from Julien Friedler ’s Book of Boz. There is the Scribe, Me the Mirror Man and of course Jack Balance.
Around 2 PM, an armada of Jack Balance’s clones gathered around the cabin. Wearing a black bonnet, glasses, a fake nose, a mustache and a red T-shirt, holding an "Around the Boz in 80 Years" questionnaire, they are walking towards people standing there and ask them to fill in the famous questionnaire.
Two hours later, all the Jack Balances have gathered in the cabin and closed the door. When the door is opened, Jack Balance speaks, and shows one more time his rebellious spirit. He puts an "Around the Boz" questionnaire into a bottle.
Then it’s a cohort of Jack Balances which slowly processes toward the sea, where into the bottle will be throwed.
This performance by Julien Friedler has been created as a prologue of his "In Quest" art show, in Ostende (Belgium).
Related links :
> Jack Balance’s gallery (on www.spiritofboz.org)
> The story "The Scribe meets Jack Balance" (in Julien Friedler’s Book of Boz, chapter 1 and Audiobook of Boz, episode 1)
