Performance artist: when ideas become action
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Prendiamo un caffè?
Rome Art Week 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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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" |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Shredding time #2
The Undiscovered Country Art Stage 2018 Singapore 27 January 2018 PC Ezzam Rahman |
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Shredding time #1
The Undiscovered Country Art Stage 2018 Singapore 26 January 2018 PC Ezzam Rahman & Sophia Natasha Wei |
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Alan (now)
Homar #3 Koolpir Canyon Lorestan Iran 30 November 2017 |
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Hasrat-e-ziba (Beautiful Regret)
Homar #3 Shor Ab Forest Lorestan Iran 28 November 2017 PC Ezzam Rahman |
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Sewn #3
insitu Guanajuato Mexico 21 April 2017 PC Beate Linne |
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El Corazón Contento
Utopia #3 Mexico City Mexico 19 April 2017 PC Beate Linne |
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Anghel
Paghilom Cavite Philippines 10 February 2017 PC Racquel de Loyola |
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Untitled
MAP Delhi (Mangar Arts & Performance) Mangar, Delhi India 12 November 2016 PC Sophia Natasha Wei |
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Fragments of Being
This Is Not A Safety Barrier The Projector Singapore 17 September 2016 PC Yen Phang, Jennifer Kwan & Lucia Damacela |
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Prana
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale #1 Chandigarh Haryana India 9 February 2016 PC Lakshmi Maurya |
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Collab POD 4
Map Fest #7 Melaka Malaysia 29 November 2015 PC Steve Chong & Chen Tienshong |
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Pasir-risaP
Map Fest #7 Melaka Malaysia 29 November 2015 PC Nazir Azhari & Ridzuan Rashid |
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Map Fest #7
Melaka Malaysia 28 November 2015 PC Ridzuan Rashid, Tee & Nazir Azhari |
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Gratitude Jar
Map Fest #7 Melaka Malaysia 27 November 2015 PC Ridzuan Rashid |
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Kala
The Mill: Destruction & Rebirth at Jalan Kilang Singapore 7 February 2015 PC Wei Teck Chee |
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Shi Jian
Art Now Live Tour Linzhou, Henan China 18 September 2014 PC Sophia Natasha Wei |
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Sewn #2
15th OPEN Beijing China 13 September 2014 PC Sophia Natasha Wei |
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Group performance
IPA Istanbul Turkey 18 August 2013 PC Verena Stenke & Jurgen Fritz |
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For Example I
Pasionistas Arts House Singapore 26 July 2013 PC Lim Eng Hwa |
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Waiting for you
Displacements Wilkie Terrace Singapore 9 June 2013 PC Lim Eng Hwa & Agam Ruslan Harimurti |
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Shifting Angle
Gender under Reflection New Zero Space Yangon Myanmar 27 September 2012 PC Kaye O'yek |
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Myanma women no border
Gender under Reflection Lokanat Galleries Yangon Myanmar 25 September 2012 PC Kaye O'yek |
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Booking around
S.P.A.M. Re-ad just National Library Singapore 16 September 2012 PC Vincent Chow |
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Untitled
S.P.A.M. #11 Bukit Brown Cemetery Singapore 18 March 2012 PC Farah Ong |
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My Body's Tears
S.P.A.M. #7 Lorong Buangkok Singapore 17 November 2011 PC Juliana Yasin |
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I perform therefore I am
intervention at R.I.T.E.S. The Substation Singapore 23 June 2011 PC Joel Yuen |
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Path
P.I.P.A.F. Santiago Philippines 24 February 2011 PC Lim Eng Hwa |
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