"Streamside Day," production still (2003)

"I was interested in creating a ritual that the people in the town would actually celebrate because it’s based on what they share. On a more abstract level, what interested me was to find the coefficient- the part of the fiction that was contained within the particular situation. I’m always doing that- trying to amplify the part of fiction that is contained in a reality, in a given situation. I was trying to find where the potential was in this new town. I was not interested in filming the reality as it was given. And I’m not interested in building fiction. What I am interested in is setting up a reality, building a situation, constructing a world, and documenting it." - Pierre Huyghe ...

"I was interested in creating a ritual that the people in the town would actually celebrate because it’s based on what they share. On a more abstract level, what interested me was to find the coefficient- the part of the fiction that was contained within the particular situation. I’m always doing that- trying to amplify the part of fiction that is contained in a reality, in a given situation. I was trying to find where the potential was in this new town. I was not interested in filming the reality as it was given. And I’m not interested in building fiction. What I am interested in is setting up a reality, building a situation, constructing a world, and documenting it."

- Pierre Huyghe