itive as Delphine repeating the same words. And while this is what characterizes dictation, it is done less to insist on the words than to let them resonate, to hear them differently. Another echo that is a little bit more distant, since it is not about performing Scum, but nonetheless striking: the chanting and humming of Pipilotti Rist in her blue dress and red shoes (like Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz), strolling on the pavement, with a certain nonchalance creat-ed by the slow motion effect, and holding a big aloe flower in one hand (Ever Is Over All, 1997). 9 The forms of counterpoint and rep-etition are also essential here: the smiling artist breaks the win-dow of a car parked along the pavement with her plant truncheon. A policeman salutes her gesture that she reiterates in a thunder of

SCUM/Performance of Catherine Corringer, December 2009.Courtesy of Catherine Corringer.Photographed by Emmanuel Vallette.