Beauty
In the installation Beauty by Manuela Agnesini (Italy/ France) a lying woman is displayed. She is naked and attached to electrodes and apparatuses used for passive bodybuilding. A man sits at a control board. He adjusts switches and creates a kind of silent choreography ruled by electronic impulses and the contractions of the muscles.
Information
(Objekt ID 9081)| Object type | Production |
| Keywords | Performance, Installation |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
In Beauty the Italian artist Manuela Agnesini examines the body and the transitions between the artificial and the natural. What is determining the relationship between being a body and the duty for beauty? The choreography is accompanied by a voice taking us into the inner journey of the woman.
From the performance program:
"Beauty is an installation in non-evolutive form with micro-events - a moved muscle, opening eyes - kind of duration-place in which the spectator enters and walks through following, if he/she wishes, his/her own desire, a 30 minutes choreographed installation for body and machines.
A naked woman covered by electrics machines for passive bodybuilding lies on a lounge-chair. She is blonde. Hair style reminds of mythological images. As does her body posture. Eve... Venus...
Beauty born as a mirror
not an answer
neither a judgment
it's a state of things
a stratification
a paroxysm
a way to take distances
a mirror for the visitor, too"
Beauty was part of Extreme, a weekend with performance, installations and concerts at BIT Teatergarasjen the autumn of 2004.
Sources: BIT Teatergarasjen, autumn program 2004. 16.11.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -arkiv
BIT Teatergarasjen, from the performance program, autumn 2004.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Manuela Agnesini | – Other |
| August 27, 2004 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk | Show |