Program: Dive

LPM Live Performers Meeting 2008 Rome
MAY 29th June 1st 2008 Ex Mattatoio Rome, Italy
Audio Visual Performing Artists Meeting
May, 29th 2008, 10:59 am | June, 2nd 2008, 4:00 am
may 29 - June 1, 2008
Ex Mattatoio, Rome Italy, Rome, Italy
Dive MAIN IMAGE

Dive

Movie

Duration: 3 min.

Sunday, 01 June 2008 | 17:00 > 17:00 | ALL DAY

A mix between children’s ghost or discovery trains and Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole, Dive invites the viewer to plunge. I use my body to wallpaper a digitally-generated tunnel as I move slowly in front of the camera, smile, and watch you; simultaneously, me too, I look at myself. In Dive, I subject my body to constant transformations and deformations evoking some type of monstrosity at first. But as my body keeps endlessly twirling through the tunnel, the idea of monstrosity becomes irrelevant, and the body-tunnel turns into a medium to reach something beyond it. The sound track–Ay Mari Cruz a classic Spanish song about a beautiful woman–confers a vital rhythm to the twirling tunnel as it also emphasizes the ideas of monstrosity evoking adequacy of beauty according to gender.

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