Résidence de création à Cerveira pendant la biennale d'art contemporain
In this performance, I revisit Gutai Passing Through by Saburo Murakami. Murakami pierced frames in Japan in 1956; Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer walked and manipulated a large white balloon in the 60's to talk about their daily lives. Non-dramatic and non-psychological bodies meant to affirm nothing more than the equality of body-parts, equivalence between bodies and objects, equality between bodies and the background. I liked these minimalist attempts to erase any psychological, erotic, and power relationship with the world so much. I liked Jean Prouvé's architectures with the concept of building houses like cars through prefabricated modules. To me, these modules were like the members of the body of the postmodern performer. But this supposedly neutral and democratic body had actually gonethrough hours and hours of work before deconstruction. It was a carved body. Moreover, it was necessary to recognize, after all, the body had erogenous zones, black holes and some moments were more important than others in life. Expressionism reappeared over everything when it was intended to have been surpassed.