Our society, primarily based on wage-labour, rejects an increasing number of people who, with no work and prepared to no alternative by a system only preoccupied by profitability, find themselves idle, with no social existence and with just no existence. This leads us to reconsider the whole social architecture and search - or dream - alternative forms of life, obviously far away from economical logic and even common sense. But the time of utopias is gone. Now, no more ideological joke, high equals low until they serve some interest; art is only tolerated when harmless while the department store seems to be today's phalanstery. Therefore, it's nor about trying to build a better world neither to cry after a lost harmony, but simply about persevering in disturbing our social habits in order to perceive their nature - and thus assume/take over their vacuity. Waiting room detached from its function, pure waste place or unconsumable artwork, the Waiting Room (Room For Lost Times) testifies about a possibility of existence aside and against the logic of the market and the imperialism of efficiency.
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(Cover of the booklet, Le Grand Wazoo, Amiens, 1997)