Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome)
BIENNIAL Fluxus – After Fluxus
20:30 Friday, February 26, 2010
Psychic Interview # 2
Interviewed by George Maciunas Ramundas Malašauskas

As soon as I arrived, I quickly visited the room dedicated to Maciunas and when Lucio Perotti started to play the piano a large number of people made a semicircle around him. After the first tune I realized that it was my turn in the show. I took off my jacket, I stood next the piano and pianist and started jumping and screaming “Be happy, there is Maurizio Cattelan …. be happy, there is Maurizio Cattelan …. “ No one stopped me and the pianist continued to play, so the public did not understand if this was part of the performance or not. After a couple of minutes someone of the organization asked me very politely to stop. Nevertheless I was almost passing out from the effort. I pointed at my watch to tell her that I had nearly finished my blitz-perfomance. So I kept it up again for another couple of minutes. When I was almost exhausted and I stopped, unexpectedly the entire audience cheered me by clapping.

When I sat, visibly tired, on a chair in the foyer of the Auditorium, someone asked me why I had made that action… I replied that it was, certainly, a tribute to three brilliant minds such as George Maciunas, Simon Cristicchi and Maurizio Cattelan but anyone could draw their own conclusions.

Pino Boresta