Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen "The Present Doesn’t Exist in My Mind And The Future’s Already Far Behind"
Location One
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Location One presents “The Present Doesn’t Exist in My Mind, and the Future is Already Far Behind,” a one-woman performance piece by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen. Conceived as a collaboration with composers Pete Drungle and Brian Bender, motion graphic artist Brian Close, and costume designer Lise Klitten.
Performance artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen was inspired by the writings of feminist mavericks Valentine de Saint Point and Mina Loy that reflect on visions of female sexuality and the subjugation of women. Her productions involve scripted texts/songs; composed music as well as intricate visual elements that include set design and costumes.
The artist’s body is trying to fit within and at the same time it is struggling with the laws and structure of geometry and architecture. Depending on the movements and choreography of the body, basic, geometric costume can transform into multiple formations as basic geometrical shapes: cylinder, circle, square, and rectangle. The inner layer is a “bodysuit”, only revealing the face, hands and feet. When the “geometric” is taken off, the motion graphics of architectural structures –”Virtual Costumes” — take over by surrounding and enclosing the body in lines and grids. The female body is integrated with architecture by projecting motion graphics onto a solid white body form. Like a snail house or a turtle, the artist carries her space around — a mobile, dynamic and flexible architecture. By this performative imagining, the artist contests the fact that architecture is predominantly a masculine endeavor.
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March 04, 2010 from 19:00