2025 mars
Exposition collective - EAT THAT FROG !L’exposition collective Eat That Frog réunit six artistes autour de l’expression anglaise du même nom, qui signifie « avaler le crapaud ».
Inspirée d’une citation attribuée à Mark Twain, cette métaphore désigne l’idée de s’attaquer en priorité aux tâches les plus difficiles. Brian Tracy l’a reprise dans son livre lugubre Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, en en faisant un principe de productivité et d’auto-optimisation.
L’exposition détourne cette injonction en explorant d’autres dynamiques : l’absurde, le jeu ou le refus de la performance.
Eat that frog regroupe une vidéo sur smartphone de Kairaan Kika, une fresque sur la vitre de Melody Lu, un tissage de Bérénice Geaca Courtin, deux personnages de Ettore Meschi et des accessoires de Robyn Baumgartner. Une performance de Sophie Ammann avec un costume de Robyn Baumgartner aura lieu le jeudi 27 mars à 18h.
DO NOT EAT THE FROG
1. Wreck the Table. Be gloriously unsure. Ask your cousin. Ask your dentist. Ask your neighbor’s dog. Stay undecisive.
2. Forget Time. It’s a slippery circle full of numbers. Let the concept drift away.
3. No
4. Ignore Consequences: Instead of obsessing over outcomes, laugh at the absurdity of consequences. After all, they’re just capitalist scare tactics meant to keep you hustling.
5. Practice Creative Procrastination. Avoid all tasks with maximum flair. Make a collage of men in suits.
6. Toss your task list into a hat, pick one at random, lose it.
7. Shun “Key” Results: Why concentrate on important tasks when you can scatter your efforts all over the place? Focus on friends instead. Or better yet, focus on your friend’s dog.
8. Embrace the Law of None: Instead of narrowing down your priorities, multiply them into a glorious mess—confuse your wallet and yourself.
9. Come as you are. Show up barefoot.
10. Do it all at once: Rather than building progress one barrel at a time, let tasks pile up like the ever-growing debt of the corporate overlords.
11. Find the Most Silent Spot in the City. Realize silence doesn’t exist.
12. What Would You Like to Do Today?
A. Eat pickled onions.
B. Ask your friend for Xanax.
C. Wrestle with your existential dread.
(All equally valid.)
13. Don’t pressure yourself: Get nothing done and leave town without telling anyone.
14. Take a nap. Dream about unhappy clowns popping confettis.
15. Have a stroll and forget your phone. Let missed calls and messages accumulate like a glorious digital compost heap.
16. Dowload a meditation app, have a meltdown anyway. Cry for hours. Consider watering plants with your tears.
17. Scatter Your Focus & Nibble Tasks: Let every shiny distraction steal your attention. Prepare April Fools’ jokes.
18. Relax so deeply you become part of the furniture. Speak only in soft, creaky sofa sounds.
19. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.
20. Make a list of your favorite shoplifting spots. Read it aloud. Rip it up and sprinkle it on your salad for extra zest.
21. Toss out routines, chase impulsiveness. Let the frog hop free.
Inspirée d’une citation attribuée à Mark Twain, cette métaphore désigne l’idée de s’attaquer en priorité aux tâches les plus difficiles. Brian Tracy l’a reprise dans son livre lugubre Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, en en faisant un principe de productivité et d’auto-optimisation.
L’exposition détourne cette injonction en explorant d’autres dynamiques : l’absurde, le jeu ou le refus de la performance.
Eat that frog regroupe une vidéo sur smartphone de Kairaan Kika, une fresque sur la vitre de Melody Lu, un tissage de Bérénice Geaca Courtin, deux personnages de Ettore Meschi et des accessoires de Robyn Baumgartner. Une performance de Sophie Ammann avec un costume de Robyn Baumgartner aura lieu le jeudi 27 mars à 18h.
DO NOT EAT THE FROG
1. Wreck the Table. Be gloriously unsure. Ask your cousin. Ask your dentist. Ask your neighbor’s dog. Stay undecisive.
2. Forget Time. It’s a slippery circle full of numbers. Let the concept drift away.
3. No
4. Ignore Consequences: Instead of obsessing over outcomes, laugh at the absurdity of consequences. After all, they’re just capitalist scare tactics meant to keep you hustling.
5. Practice Creative Procrastination. Avoid all tasks with maximum flair. Make a collage of men in suits.
6. Toss your task list into a hat, pick one at random, lose it.
7. Shun “Key” Results: Why concentrate on important tasks when you can scatter your efforts all over the place? Focus on friends instead. Or better yet, focus on your friend’s dog.
8. Embrace the Law of None: Instead of narrowing down your priorities, multiply them into a glorious mess—confuse your wallet and yourself.
9. Come as you are. Show up barefoot.
10. Do it all at once: Rather than building progress one barrel at a time, let tasks pile up like the ever-growing debt of the corporate overlords.
11. Find the Most Silent Spot in the City. Realize silence doesn’t exist.
12. What Would You Like to Do Today?
A. Eat pickled onions.
B. Ask your friend for Xanax.
C. Wrestle with your existential dread.
(All equally valid.)
13. Don’t pressure yourself: Get nothing done and leave town without telling anyone.
14. Take a nap. Dream about unhappy clowns popping confettis.
15. Have a stroll and forget your phone. Let missed calls and messages accumulate like a glorious digital compost heap.
16. Dowload a meditation app, have a meltdown anyway. Cry for hours. Consider watering plants with your tears.
17. Scatter Your Focus & Nibble Tasks: Let every shiny distraction steal your attention. Prepare April Fools’ jokes.
18. Relax so deeply you become part of the furniture. Speak only in soft, creaky sofa sounds.
19. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.
20. Make a list of your favorite shoplifting spots. Read it aloud. Rip it up and sprinkle it on your salad for extra zest.
21. Toss out routines, chase impulsiveness. Let the frog hop free.
Texte + affiche : Montserrat Mayor
Photos : Jeanne Tullen