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.

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(Objekt ID 9081)
Object type Production
Keywords Performance, Installation

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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.

Contributors (1)
Name Role
Manuela Agnesini – Other
Performance dates
August 27, 2004BIT Teatergarasjen Show