Inspired by a ritual known as Matam, which takes place in the Shiite ceremony of Ashura, the performance transcends its origins, becoming an action that opens the body to a trance state of rhythm & ritual practice.
The artist's body is spit on and punished by an indigenous Guatemalan woman.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041)
Guatemalan artist carvs the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
What happens when you give a live artist the keys to the library?
A provocationinterested in exploring the meeting points between the obliteration of the possibility of physical motherhood (rupture of the body), a country disappearing in war (rupture of the land) and the reconstruction of the bio-political-history. Together these assert a new no-motherhood and post-motherland identity away from the exilic ruptures that define the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in Europe.
The aim of this book is to offer perspectives on performance art practice with a focus on teaching. This subject has rarely been approached in the literature and this book gives insights and inspiration for all those teaching performance art as well as to anyone else interested in this art form.
Whether he’s creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a “dancing museum,” Charmatz’s work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action.
Includes interviews, dialogues and critical writing on art and politics. In French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Publication 'arrived' after participation in a six-day festival curated by ]performance S p a c e[ in 2016.