PERFORMAT is a traveling, site specific performance inspired by 70’s feminism, mixed up and spiced with Vogue magazine, the television show Big Brother, and plastic surgery, starring the magnificent Lucie Fontaine, interpreting a project by Marcella Vanzo, with music by Jennifer Walshe. The performance will be available afterward as a limited edition LP.
Lucie Fontaine is an art employer who lives and works in France. Her two art employees used to define her as the Jamie Lynn Spears of contemporary art: “pregnant and in search of easy success.” In 2007 Lucie Fontaine opened a space in Milan, which hosted unconventional projects by Italian artists Marcella Vanzo, Valerio Carrubba, Alessandro Roma and Mauro Vignando, and first time solo shows by Riccardo Beretta, Cleo Fariselli and Enza Galantini. She exhibited in Murcia, Spain (with Fruit and Flower Deli) and in New York, where she presented her peers at “No Soul For Sale” at X-initiative. In 2008, T293 gallery in Naples hosted Lucie Fontaine’s first solo show. The art employer is currently working on the book “Perché Napoli” forthcoming from Archive Books (Berlin).
*L’Anti-Oedipe was written by the two of us, and since each of us was several, we were already quite a crowd.” Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari.
Marcella Vanzo (b. Milano, Italy 1973) works with video, performance and installation, investigating all dimensions of the human being, from the mythical to the political. In her work reality and fiction form a tight knit unity that questions the representation of everyday world. Solo and group shows include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Walker Art Center, Museo Reina Sofia, Galleria Continua. Awards include the New York Art Residency at Columbia University and Acacia-Emerging Artist Award, Milan.
Jennifer Walshe (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1974) is a composer, vocalist, and performer known for her performances of extended technique. She earned a BA from Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1997 and a doctoral degree in composition from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 2002. Her compositions have been performed by such groups as Alter Ego, Ensemble Récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, Ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, the Crash Ensemble, ensemble ascolta, Champ d’Action, and the Rilke Ensemble. Walshe has participated in festivals such as RTE Living Music, Bastad Kammarmusik Festival, Ultraschall, Ars Musica, Wien Modern, Composer’s Choice, SoundField the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik Darmstadt, Stockholm New Music, BELEF, and Traiettorie.
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