Family Film Project
Catálogo Family Film ProjectIn the 60's, Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer manipulated a large white balloon in a flat to represent 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. It was like Jean Prouvé' s modular architectures like building houses like cars with prefabricated modules. To me, those modules were like the members of the body of the postmodern performer. But this supposedly neutral and democratic body had actually gone through hours and hours of work before this deconstruction. It was a carved body. Moreover, it was necessary to recognize, after all, that the body had erogenous zones, black holes... Some moments were more important than others in life. Expressionism reappeared when it was intended to have been surpassed. In this performance, I revisit the Gutai piece "Passing Through" by Saburo Murakami. Murakami pierced frames in Japan in 1956.