Your performances refer to the world that wants to be hidden by many, to strangeness, violence, melancholy, loneliness and desire. We are wondering if one of the hidden aims of Art could be to search the missing significance to a non-place… We are convinced that some information and ideas are hidden or even encrypted in the environment we live in, so we need to find a way to decipher them. I wonder if you agree with a statement that one of the Artists role would be to reveal unexpected sides of Nature, especially of our inner Nature?
Oh yes... I don't know if t's the role of the artist but personnally it's what I need to explore, that I miss in daily life...
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Béatrice. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
I would like to thank you for this interview which is an opportunity for me to think about what I do/ try to do. It is sometimes difficult in the field of Performance Art, as we create in the present moment (it's not like a painter or sculptor or photographer or videographer who can look at what he/she has created. Even if there are traces of what we create, these traces are only traces of a work that has taken place and that no longer exists …).
I have actually some projects connected to PAErsche or to Bbeyond and need time for myself to go on new project.
Last years, I had the project to perform and create some installations connected directly to my performance work, at the Atelier Salzamt in Linz or at the Art Space 10/12 in Brussels. I really liked that. How to let a trace of a performance, a physical trace which is a consequence of the performance by itself? This excited me and was also a nice possibility for me to share with people who didn't see the action...
Recently, I started also to perform for long durationnal performance in the context of a project which is called Cumulator which was proposed by James King. As I was not able to join other performers in Derry, I decided to perform for myself for 8 hours at home... Nobody was there... I'll continue that until december. Alone and/or with other performers, with or without witnesses... It's a kind of exploring time, body, space... Just for practice... A kind of meditation... Actually i'm a little bit afraid by the “new fashion” of Performance Art, as a possible piece of art on the artmarket. For me it's very important to keep it as continuous research and practise; I just need it.
As an artist curator, I also hope to continue to work on the Platform Actus, which is a good opportunity to invite some artists and brings them to meet each other and to meet audience in the country where I spend most of my daily life. Because I think that, in a society which suffocating and completely chaotic, Performance Art is a wonderfull breathing space where we can find time to exchange in the present of the life.
Coverphoto magazine: "Sunflower": foto River Lin.
Coverphoto article: "Arbeit macht or 1212 stones": foto Ulrich Fohler.
Foto 1 ( with robes): "From Document to Life: I want to tell you". Photo Evamaria Schaller
Foto 2 ( stone with Pessoa): "In Life Alive". Photo Mathieu Richelle
Foto 3 ( double page): "1971-2008". Photo Ilka Teurich
Foto 4 : "Into Your Arms". Foto Luis Alvarez
Via Performance Art, i'm “progressing” in the field of visual art. And to be honest, sometimes i'm very jealous of all of them. I would like to be able to paint, to sculpt, to design,.... ( laugh)
to create a piece of art which is out of me and which is powerfull aesthetically... But until now I can't ;)... Then I work with my body and all which is coming to me. Sometimes I use some material but I can't think about this material as an aesthetical material... Of course I can slowly to see that some material or some forms are recurrent. For example, stones are coming back to me. I did some performances only with stones or some performance ( in Linz) which brought me to create an installation only with stones.... Or earth or water or fire or feathers, flowers... bout patterns, I can see also that the notion of “circle” is reccurent. Circle as a form of repetition as well as a way of moving or as a form I create with my body ( by turning around) or with the space ( circle space) or with some material ( balloon, round stone, sunflower) … ecently I started also to use sounds or words ( what I refused for many years as I wanted to clean myself from my theater practise...)....
In Performance Art artists pick up from different disciplines, yes... Without master them sometimes... Maybe it's a way of transcending borders or daring fragility...
It is impossible to avoid the topic of body consciousness, embodied emotions and the image of body that we see on your drawings, which stays in real opposition to the images presented in mass media. What are the bodies appearing in your artworks – fragmented, languorous, lethargic…? What inspires you to such representations of the human body?
This is a good question... I'm not sure i'm able to reply properly... Maybe an art critic should be more able to speak about that?... ;)... But well let's try... My body is of course the “material” of my art work... A material which is alive... So of course this body means not only a physical body, but also a thinking body, an emotionnal body, a spiritual body...
Actually, in mass media, I have the feeling that the body is more conceived as a product. A product to identify, to charm, to sell... But what is behind the visible body?
The body carries in itself a series of traces of experiences, encounters, visible or not visible... And also the body is changing according to the space or to the material or the other body...
So... I don't have a specific representation of the human body... It depends of the place where I am to perform and to the subject or the material I explore during my action...
fact that we have in common the “human race”, we all are different and that each person react differently or receive differently a piece of art. And this is the beauty of what can happen in the context of a performance. How each person can sense what he/she see. And this i can't control. I hope I don't control. Otherwise it's a kind of manipulation, under my point of view
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