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The pictures are
details of a menstrual dance
performance
Carlota Berard did over a 2x2 meters
cloth with her own musical
composition
and choreography. While she was
dancing and her menstrual flow was
dripping
over the cloth, she was at the same
time creating the graphite traces.
When
it dried she cut the cloth into
fragments and made small
drawings-collages
[here].
Carlota Berard is a
multidisciplinary conceptual artist
who
does PhD research in England about
body substances on artistic
performances:
Each body substance or fluid has
a different texture and a
different
way or perforating the body. The
body pulsates in diverse ways when
releasing
any substance, by contraction or
expansion and with rhythmical or
non-rhythmical
pulses. The body is full of a
pulse, in other words energy or
excitement,
ready to ooze slowly and outwards
a liquid and an intense emotion.
The body
also oozes when it slowly
disappears within a frame of time
to allow a metamorphosis,
another performance to happen and
another existence. There is a
pulse within
any artistic performance. The
pulse not only concerns matter,
but also the
soul.
Carlota Berard,
2004
The closeness of the
spirit,
nowadays a fluent
thing to write or tell,
since no distant
colour seems to stay.
No flagrant music
without spell,
no poison pulse
without smell.
Disposition is the key
word, the secret.
We had a secret? Tell
me if so, again and again!
Slowly and tenderly
between distances,
pure and gelid
transfuse of blood while
breathing
instances.
All art and photos
copyright 2004-2005 Carlota Berard
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