Premier Festival de la Performance de Paris — Intervention, Paris, 1982

20.5 × 13.5 cm. Offset lithograph on blue card stock, printed recto and verso. Very good vintage condition with light handling wear, faint age toning, and evidence of postal circulation to the reverse.

Original festival announcement card issued by A.P.E.G.A.C. (Association pour la Promotion des Expressions Graphiques et Audio-Visuelles Contemporaines) for the Premier Festival de la Performance de Paris – Intervention, Paris, 12–19 March 1982. Organised by Jacques and Jean-Daniel Donguy in collaboration with Egídio Álvaro. Subscription: 200 F (avec catalogue). A.P.E.G.A.C., 57 rue de la Roquette, Paris, tél. 700 10 94.

The card functions simultaneously as programme, invitation, and administrative document. The daily timetable occupies the centre of the composition — listing sessions from vendredi through vendredi across eight days, with times 18:30/20 and 21/22:30, and a Sunday session at the Quai de Grenelle at 14:30/20 — while a sequence of grainy documentary photographs forms a dispersed visual archive of live actions: works intended to exist briefly but preserved here through inexpensive printed matter.

The programme brought together a broad international network of emerging and established performance artists, including Charles Dreyfus, Michel Verjux, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Philippe Cazal, Julien Blaine, Joël Hubaut, Jean-François Bory, Jérôme Mesnager, and many others, reflecting the increasingly international character of performance art in Europe during the early 1980s.

Originally produced as a temporary support for distribution, the object now survives as evidence of a moment when performance circulated through mailings, artist-run organisations, and independent cultural networks rather than permanent collections. Its significance lies less in rarity alone than in what it records: an infrastructure for ephemeral practice whose paper traces have become increasingly scarce.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price.