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© Daniela Beltrani 2020  
Performance artist: when ideas become action
Prendiamo un caffè?
PAR #17
​Rome Art Week #5
Caffè ai Banchi Vecchi
Rome, ITALY
29 October 2020
PC Luca & Ilaria Paccini
Coffee (qahwa) is the most loved and consumed beverage in Italy. Once known as the "devil's drink" due to its Muslim origin, in the early 1600s Pope Clement VIII ruled in favour of it and allowed Catholics to consume it. This decreed the birth and spread of the coffee shop, which over the years became a place not only for convivial aggregation, but also for meetings by cultured men, writers, philosophers and politicians. In 1992 the philosopher Marc Sautet began a series of Sunday meetings at the Café des Phares in Paris to advertise his new philosophical consulting firm. The popularity of the meetings in which philosophical themes were dealt with, and to which an increasing number of participants flocked, decreed the rediscovery of the philosophical café, in vogue in France in the 1700s. Subsequently, in 1995, Sautet published the book Un café pour Socrate, in which he suggests how philosophy can teach us to understand today's world. Inspired by the popularity of the café philo, widespread in France and other parts of the world, but non-existent in Italy, Daniela proposed to the patrons of the caffè to start a discussion on the big questions of life, in exchange for an espresso. The sitter could propose the question or picked up one randomly from the colourful cards. At the end s/he chose a word to give Daniela and walk away with.

Intelligenti pauca
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#16
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
11 October 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
"Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
​Matthew 7:6

L'attesa
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#15
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
3 October 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno

To the artist in everyone
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#14
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
29 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
"In performance art we can use ordinary objects in a different way from the ordinary and share them with others, generating images, sensations, reflections, even beauty. The artist's intention guides his actions, and while they are taking place, the original intention is accompanied by the myriad of reactions and interpretations of the spectator. Unity generates multiplicity, and right and wrong lose their reason for being. "
Daniela Beltrani

Avadhuta
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#14
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
29 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
"The action in performance art can be imperceptible, like a pole to which golden fringes are attached that the wind stirs. The artist then becomes a medium in which the ego calms down and allows the action of other creative energies.
Among the meanings of the Sanskrit word Avadhuta are included agitated, like the effect of the wind, and removed from earthly attachments, as were the hermits who lived on the Soratte. "
Daniela Beltrani

Glass baubles Lila
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#13
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
23 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
​Matthew 18:3

Messa a terra / Grounding
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#12
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
22 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
"Between 1582 and 1590 six Franciscans were killed by thunderbolts. Electricity in our body can be fatal. Connection to ground can save us. Let us pour onto the earth all that dangerous material which over time can cause us harm."
Daniela Beltrani 

Anahata
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#11
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
21 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
"HeartMath Institute has been investigating the connection between our heart and brain for decades. Quick Coherence Technique allows us to reconnect with a positive feeling and enjoy immediate benefits for our mind."
Daniela Beltrani

Vita
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#10

Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
16 August 2020
​PC B. Linne
​“You will never meet two absolutely identical faces. No matter the beauty or ugliness: these things are relative. Each face is the symbol of life. And all life deserves respect. It is by treating others with dignity that self-respect is earned."
Tahar Ben Jelloun

All art that’s on the streets is not graffiti
in collaboration with
Ilaria Paccini
​Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#9

Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
15 August 2020
​PC Luca V.
"Street art is much more than graffiti, it is bringing art in the street.
​Daniela Beltrani"

Per Speculum
Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#8
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
9 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno
“A mirror reflects our corporeality, the gross substance of which we are composed. What does reflect our soul? Only another soul. "
Daniela Beltrani

Esse is Percipi
Sant'Oreste in Rete... Percorsi e Tracce: arte all'aperto e salute ambientale per un nuovo stile di vita e di cultura, PAR#7
Sant'Oreste (Roma)
Italy
8 August 2020
​PC Sergio Buondonno

"You watch me. I watch you. We exist."
​Daniela Beltrani

Untitled
PAR #6 Time
Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina
Rome
Italy
​26 July 2020
​PC Giulia & Luca
In the square that once housed the Horologium Augusti, "Fugit inreparabile tempus,"
Virgil, Georgics III, 284

Untitled
PAR #5 Time
Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina
Rome
Italy
​25 July 2020
​PC Giulia & Luca
In the square that once housed the Horologium Augusti, "Fugit inreparabile tempus,"
Virgil, Georgics III, 284

Fragments of Being
PAR #4 Agones
​Piazza Navona
Rome
Italy
​19 July 2020
PC Luca, Giulia, Carla Conforto & Vittorio Palandri
“A mirror reflects our corporeality, the gross substance of which we are composed. What does reflect our soul? Only another soul. "
Daniela Beltrani

Kala
PAR #3
Piazza di Pasquino
Rome
Italy
27 June 2020
​PC Luca & Sergio Buondonno
"Kāla in Sanskrit means time.
Time unfolds through our daily actions, performed out of habit, automatically or simultaneously with others, all functional to the purposes of our ego. We have learned that from A to B one has to move in the shortest possible time and with the least expenditure of energy. Thus, blinded, rather than guided, by our final purpose, life flows through our hands and never returns.
The simple gesture of pouring water into a container, functional to our desire to drink, is broken up into temporal fragments which manifest themselves in double micro-actions: sucking the drop and releasing it. Water enters the container with our growing awareness, and slowly we also become aware of what keeps us alive: the breath."
Daniela Beltrani

Lara
​PAR #2
​Piazza di Pasquino
Rome
​Italy
21 February 2020
PC Nilen Figà
"Lo, an old hag, seated among girls, performs rites in honour of Tacita63 (“the Silent Goddess”), but herself is not silent. With three fingers she puts three lumps of incense under the threshold, where the little mouse has made for herself a secret path. Then she binds enchanted threads together with dark lead, and mumbles seven black beans in her mouth; and she roasts in the fire the head of a small fish which she has sewed up, made fast with pitch, and pierced through and through with a bronze needle. She also drops wine on it, and the wine that is left over she or her companions drink, but she gets the larger share. Then as the goes off she says, “We have bound fast hostile tongues and unfriendly mouths.” So exit the old woman drunk."
Ovid, Fasti, II, 571-582

"At once you will ask of me, “Who is the goddess Muta (‘the Mute’)?” Hear what I learned from the old men gone in years. Conquered by exceeding love of Juturna, Jupiter submitted to many things which so great a god ought not to bear. For now she would hide in the woods among the hazel-thickets, now she would leap down into her sister waters. The god called together all the nymphs who dwell in Latium, and thus in the midst of the troop he spake aloud: “Your sister is her own enemy, and shuns that union with the supreme god which is all for her good. Pray look to her interests and to mine, for what is a great pleasure to me will be a great boon to your sister. When she flees, stop her on the edge of the bank, lest she plunge into the water of the river.” He spake. Assent was given by all the nymphs of Tiber and by those who haunt, Ilia divine,
64 thy wedding bowers. It chanced there was a Naiad nymph, Lara by name; but her old name was the first syllable repeated twice, and that was given her to mark her failing.65 Many a time Almo66 had said to her, “My daughter, hold thy tongue,” but hold it she did not. No sooner did she reach the pools of her sister Juturna than, “Fly the banks,” said she, and reported the words of Jupiter. She even visited Juno and, after expressing her pity for married dames, “Your husband,” quoth she, “is in love with the Naiad Juturna.” Jupiter fumed and wrenched from her the tongue she had used so indiscreetly. He also called for Mercury. “Take her to the deadland,” said he, “that’s the place for mutes. A nymph she is, but a nymph of the infernal marsh she’ll be.” The orders of Jupiter were obeyed. On their way they came to a grove: then it was, they say, that she won the heart of her divine conductor. He would have used force; for want of words she pleased with a look, and all in vain she strove to speak with her dumb lips. She went with child, and bore twins, who guard the cross-roads and ever keep watch in our city: they are the Lares."
Ovid, 
Fasti, II, 583-616
​Source

God Bless China
Burnt Snow #7
Xilamuren, Inner Mongolia
China
3 January 2020
PC Yves Gore
"Well-wishing with my breath on colourful streamers which will blow to the wind, far and wide, to the four corners of China."
Daniela Beltrani

Cleansing for the New Year
Burnt Snow #7
Hohhot
Inner Mongolia
China
31 December 2019
PC Gilivanka Kedzior & Yan Yinhong
For the new year, let us kill the genders that cause inequality.
Let us be reborn into a genderless sterile being.
Let us lose this body causing so much unhappiness.
Let us allow our souls to shine brightly.
Daniela Beltrani

Dirty Laundry
PAR #1
Via Giulia 103, Rome
Italy
21 October 2019
​PC ​Ilaria Paccini, Michela Ramadori,

Fabrizia Migliarotti
"One stolen kiss is passion and love.
One thousand stolen kisses are an incurable wound."
Daniela Beltrani

Shredding time #2
The Undiscovered Country
Art Stage 2018
Singapore

27 January 2018
PC Ezzam Rahman

Shredding time #1
The Undiscovered Country
Art Stage 2018
​Singapore
26 January 2018
PC Ezzam Rahman & Sophia Natasha Wei

Alan (now)
Homar #3
Koolpir Canyon Lorestan
Iran

30 November 2017

Hasrat-e-ziba (Beautiful Regret)
Homar #3
Shor Ab Forest
Lorestan
​Iran
28 November 2017
PC Ezzam Rahman

Sewn #3
insitu
Guanajuato
Mexico
21 April 2017
PC Beate Linne

El Corazón Contento
Utopia #3
Mexico City
Mexico
19 April 2017
PC Beate Linne

Anghel
Paghilom
Cavite
Philippines
10 February 2017
PC Racquel de Loyola

Untitled
MAP Delhi (Mangar Arts & Performance)
Mangar, Delhi
​India
12 November 2016
​PC Sophia Natasha Wei

Fragments of Being
This Is Not A Safety Barrier
The Projector
Singapore
17 September 2016
PC Yen Phang, Jennifer Kwan & Lucia Damacela

Prana
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale #1
​Chandigarh
Haryana
India
9 February 2016
​PC Lakshmi Maurya

Collab POD 4
Map Fest #7
Melaka
Malaysia
29 November 2015
PC Steve Chong & ​Chen Tienshong

Pasir-risaP
Map Fest #7
Melaka
Malaysia
29 November 2015
​PC Nazir Azhari & Ridzuan Rashid

Map Fest #7
Melaka
Malaysia
28 November 2015
​PC Ridzuan Rashid, Tee & Nazir Azhari

Gratitude Jar
Map Fest #7
Melaka
Malaysia
27 November 2015
​PC Ridzuan Rashid

Kala
The Mill: Destruction & Rebirth at Jalan Kilang
Singapore
​7 February 2015
PC Wei Teck Chee

Shi Jian
Art Now Live Tour
Linzhou, Henan
China
18 September 2014
​PC Sophia Natasha Wei

Sewn #2
15th OPEN
Beijing
China
13 September 2014
PC Sophia Natasha Wei

Group performance
​IPA
Istanbul
Turkey
18 August 2013
PC Verena Stenke & Jurgen Fritz

For Example I
Pasionistas
Arts House
Singapore
26 July 2013
PC Lim Eng Hwa

Waiting for you
Displacements
Wilkie Terrace
Singapore
9 June 2013
PC Lim Eng Hwa & Agam Ruslan Harimurti

​​Shifting Angle
Gender under Reflection
New Zero Space
Yangon

Myanmar
27 September 2012
PC Kaye O'yek

Myanma women no border
Gender under Reflection
Lokanat Galleries
Yangon
Myanmar
25 September 2012
PC Kaye O'yek

Booking around
S.P.A.M. Re-ad just
National Library
Singapore
16 September 2012
PC Vincent Chow

Untitled
S.P.A.M. #11
Bukit Brown Cemetery
Singapore
18 March 2012
PC Farah Ong

My Body's Tears
S.P.A.M. #7
​Lorong Buangkok
Singapore
17 November 2011
​PC Juliana Yasin

I perform therefore I am
intervention at R.I.T.E.S.
The Substation
Singapore
​23 June 2011
​PC Joel Yuen

Path
P.I.P.A.F.
Santiago
Philippines
24 February 2011
PC Lim Eng Hwa

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