DANIELA BELTRANI
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    • ●CURRICULUM VITÆ
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  • ●PERFORMANCE
    • 2011 >
      • Path
      • I perform therefore I am
      • Campare s'oda
      • The In-Between Food Court
      • Curves
      • Rediscovering Antigone
      • Trapped/Protected
      • My body's tears
      • Body is blank
      • Fragments of being #1
    • 2012 >
      • Untitled
      • Shifting angle
    • 2013 >
      • Ignite
      • Waiting for you
      • Anonymous words
      • For example I
      • Impromptu
    • 2014 >
      • Beautiful ugly
      • Sewn #1
      • Sewn #2
      • Shi Jian
      • Nise2MeetU
    • 2015 >
      • Kala #1
      • Collab pod
    • 2016 >
      • B#bbles
      • Sat Sri Akaal
      • Prana
      • Fragments of being #2
      • Untitled
    • 2017 >
      • Kala #3
      • Norogachi
      • El Corazón Contento
      • Sewn #3
      • Hasrat-e-ziba
    • 2018 >
      • Shredding time
    • 2019 >
      • Dirty Laundry
      • Cleansing for the New Year
    • 2020 >
      • God bless China
      • Lara
      • Kala #4
      • Fragments of being #3
      • Untitled
      • Esse is Percipi
      • Per speculum #1
      • Anahata
      • Messa a terra/Grounding
      • Lila
      • Avadhuta
      • To the artist in everyone
      • L'attesa
      • Intelligenti pauca
      • Let's have a coffee
    • 2021 >
      • Rosatio
      • Benché 'l parlar sia indarno #2
      • Giglio di Pace
      • Testa di lana #1
      • Testa di lana #2
      • 41
      • Ties #1
      • Per speculum #3
      • Ties #2
      • Caffè Philo
      • Per speculum #4
    • 2022 >
      • R-E-Spirando
      • Happy BreathDay Linda
      • Per speculum #5
      • R-E-Spiriamo
  • ●CONTACT

As with Waiting for you, Sewn too was inspired by the morning meditation sessions with my then 9-year-old son Luca. We used to sit in front of one another and breathe in silence. Sometimes we opened our eyes and anchored our attention onto each other's eyes.

For this variation, I invited the sitter to choose a colourful thread which I then sewed between our t-shirts.

After some time, I offered the sitter a pair of scissors, so that s/he cut the thread connecting us.

Upon leaving, the sitter and I kept half thread hanging from the t-shirt, tangible trace of our time spent together.

At the end of the performance my t-shirt was full of many colourful threads from all the encounters that had taken place.

The encounter with the audience was always twofold: a one-to-one, silent and quiet, privileged in the intimate space of a straw mat surrounded by a string of fragrant jasmine buds, whilst the other consisted of a fluid crowd watching the first.

Little India - where I used to live and where the performance art event took place - is always packed with foreign workers, mostly from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.

I decided to present my performance outside the art space, to give the opportunity to witness and/or to be part of the performance to anyone, thus opening it also to a non-artsy crowd.

To become relevant and stop being self-referential, art can - maybe must - leave the institutional spaces to become open to all: this could happen naturally bringing art to public spaces.

Jennie Klein, PhD, on Sewn #1 by Daniela Beltrani in "Implicated Audiences: FOI and Performing a/n/other Singapore."
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  • ●ABOUT
    • ●CURRICULUM VITÆ
    • ●ARTIST STATEMENT
    • ●LINKS
  • ●PERFORMANCE
    • 2011 >
      • Path
      • I perform therefore I am
      • Campare s'oda
      • The In-Between Food Court
      • Curves
      • Rediscovering Antigone
      • Trapped/Protected
      • My body's tears
      • Body is blank
      • Fragments of being #1
    • 2012 >
      • Untitled
      • Shifting angle
    • 2013 >
      • Ignite
      • Waiting for you
      • Anonymous words
      • For example I
      • Impromptu
    • 2014 >
      • Beautiful ugly
      • Sewn #1
      • Sewn #2
      • Shi Jian
      • Nise2MeetU
    • 2015 >
      • Kala #1
      • Collab pod
    • 2016 >
      • B#bbles
      • Sat Sri Akaal
      • Prana
      • Fragments of being #2
      • Untitled
    • 2017 >
      • Kala #3
      • Norogachi
      • El Corazón Contento
      • Sewn #3
      • Hasrat-e-ziba
    • 2018 >
      • Shredding time
    • 2019 >
      • Dirty Laundry
      • Cleansing for the New Year
    • 2020 >
      • God bless China
      • Lara
      • Kala #4
      • Fragments of being #3
      • Untitled
      • Esse is Percipi
      • Per speculum #1
      • Anahata
      • Messa a terra/Grounding
      • Lila
      • Avadhuta
      • To the artist in everyone
      • L'attesa
      • Intelligenti pauca
      • Let's have a coffee
    • 2021 >
      • Rosatio
      • Benché 'l parlar sia indarno #2
      • Giglio di Pace
      • Testa di lana #1
      • Testa di lana #2
      • 41
      • Ties #1
      • Per speculum #3
      • Ties #2
      • Caffè Philo
      • Per speculum #4
    • 2022 >
      • R-E-Spirando
      • Happy BreathDay Linda
      • Per speculum #5
      • R-E-Spiriamo
  • ●CONTACT