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
|