We were invited for the summer lab festival, organized at the CAN (Centre d’Art Neuchâtel) by Daniel Suter and Arthur de Pury, to perform a piece we had conceived earlier for the Bucharest Biennale and entitled WALK/TALK which consists, as its name is clearly stating, to walk and talk within a city with inhabitants of that city; in other words: to share knowledge about a city, in a city, between people discovering that city and people living in it.

When we arrived in Neuchâtel, boredom took over our primary motivation. The Bourgeois-City, the Museum-City, the Narcissist- City left us cold blooded, empty, depraved of inspiration.

We decided to stroll around the streets in research of something.

We found the castle.

We visited it twice.

We organized a visit of the castle for the summer lab festival. The director of The CAN, the curators, the other artists and the visitors were invited to the castle where they were greeted by a guide and taken along for a tour.

It took about an hour.

We received a couple of insults on our phones because when the visit started, we went back to the Art Centre to prepare our next day performance.

The first part of this book shows the photographs of our attempt to drift within Neuchâtel in search of something (our naïf belief that art should always be about “looking for something”).

In the second part, on pink paper, you will find images of the castle visit.