Wednesday, 17 October 2012

EURO LIGHT SCULPTURE FRANKFURT: SACRI/$/BODY 1st STREET ACTION: INFRONT OF EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

This is my first "psychomagic" public performance action photographed in Frankfurt. All photos are by Elsa Thorp, my photographic collaborator whose "suggestion" this psychomagic action of being in front of the Euro light sign was in response to my letter and concept for this project. She is from NZ, but based in Berlin. We combined our ideas together, my idea of meditating/dancing/begging in front of a bank and also the Oracle of Delphi performance in Frankfurt, with her Euro sign in Frankfurt photo idea, as this is in front of the European Central Bank. We combined my performance trip to Leonhardi Kulturprojecte with this, which she also documented (post below). These different performances are all forms of the MFA project. I discovered that this site is the site of the Occupy Frankfurt began as a worldwide movement in 2011 and still exists to the right, also it is a site for where the 'Roma' (Romanian gypsies) beg, which I also did not know until I arrived. My imagery was morphed together prior to this, but seems to relate. Reclaiming feminine sacred power/bodily and intuitive wisdom is present here. It is also meant to have humour. It is a meditating protest dance performance on a saturday night. This idea of 'giving' has come up already a lot in relation to the female erotic body/power of the feminine and sexuality as something which subtley subverts and eludes money systems. Giving freely of this body in a way which uses but does not exploit female sexuality is something which directly opposes money systems, though women's/people's unpaid labour is ever present in capitalism also. Performance art psychomagic becomes an offering, something for party goers and tourists to think about, I am not busking or asking for anything here. I am not exploiting my body, I am implying something different I hope in morphing together a variety of gestures and performance actions. This has been the culmination of studio actions and concepts derived through the process, as explained in posts prior, red is the colour of the root chakra: money/sexuality/survival/community. I wanted an outfit which covered my body, protected it, which was also open to readings on many levels, across cultures. I am sitting on a yoga matt I use daily.



 
















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