Emmetrop, Bourges, France

For dessert, we served up a Dirt Bed performance. The Emmetrop fabrication team had created a plush rendition of the dirt bed in the style of Louis XIV, with a powder-blue velvet headboard and a bed frame filled with soil, garnished with two big juicy tomatoes and fresh flowers. We had planned to get naked and roll around in the soil while the audience partook of the feast and milled about the courtyard. To our complete surprise, the audience stopped eating and pulled up chairs around the bed. Suddenly, industrial music started to play loudly on speakers, and colored lights came on, illuminating the bed and us. Our technical team wanted to surprise us. We realized that everyone expected something more than us merely lying quietly under a blanket of soil. What were we to do? The pressure was on! So we undressed each other to the music, got into the soil, and slowly got hot and heavy. Our ambient Dirt Bed piece unintentionally turned into a middle-aged, full-figured, soil-laden, full-on live ecosex show.