Performance Art in Phnom Penh

So tonight after a day in the office continuing with the finance manual and then a catch up call with my contact at AfID I headed out to another Our City Festival event showing at the French Institute.

Performance art in several forms:
Art Exchange - where an artist encourage you to stick post it notes on her costume telling her your feelings
General Knowledge - the artist endured the weight of knowledge placed upon him in the form of books
My feelings - the artist gave his canvas as a body for the audience to transform him from white to being painted black
Mouth - a performer is surrounded by the news but remains silent and use mimes actions of his day using articles made from newspaper
Pockets - dressed in paper with upside down pockets, the performer drew objects on the walls
The Demand - 'we always want without understanding one another' - two people struggle, entangled but unconnected

Interesting performances by the artists, this was then followed by a series of short contemporary dance films produced and shown by Amrita.

An alternative evening's entertainment, I headed back for dinner at my favourite Herb Cafe before bed.