from a talk and video show that Franco B gave with Kamal Ackarie on 22/1/07 at Queen Mary College

 so many people turn up some have to sit on the floor. the room has never been so full!
Franco says he is a visual artist who performs...

three videos and a set of stills-

O Lover Boy

the body is painted white...the thumb twitches...the fist clenches...a stream of blood pulses...drips...drop by drop...drips...a river of blood pours down the tilted canvas...the naked cock lies flaccid still...piano music floats...the blood drips...a river...it carves a river bed on the surface of the white arm...forever following the same route...o lover boy...the same route ...from the head... to the heart...to the feet...bleeding...bleeding...o lover boy...flow...red...violet.

Still Life

people are sleeping on the streets...in a room...on a table...covered with a white cloth...lit from below...the body painted white lies still...an audience bubbles...it lies still with dignity...unprotected from its own desires...it screams...the body is my fucking body i do what the fuck i want...the white sheet...snowy white splodged with blood seeping from the body turns red...it cries...i give birth to the body.
people are still sleeping on the streets.

I Mss You

a body painted white slowly walks up and down a canvas catwalk...blood drips from the arms...walks slowly up and down...cameras click and clack...walks slowly up and down a canvas catwalk...i miss you...i am alone and afraid and i walk slowly bleeding up and down...i am observed and am afraid of being abandoned...the feet of the body move steadily over the blood splodges...red footprints line the catwalk.

Dont Leave Me THis Way

a lone chair poised neath a set of powerful electric lights...
a man seated in the chair...an endurance of dark space and 
white noise...a dazzling confrontation ensues...a blinding...
an after image of the body burned on the retina...
dont leave me this way...the loud noise of the music stops and the hearts of the audience breath in time...the space is full of breathing...and the body enters the body of the audience and views it.