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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
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