[Text available only in English] WITH AN HELMET - fair and lost. Live performance by Francesca Fini (2013)
In this performance I'm wearing electrodes on both arms and I try to wear makeup. Involuntary contractions caused by electrical impulse are very strong and the makeup spreads all over my face, uncontrollably, turning me into a monster. In the background we hear the chorus of Nabucodonosor by Giuseppe Verdi, which has a very strong symbolic value in the history of my country, bringing along the ghosts of old struggles for freedom that no one remembers anymore. "My country, fair and lost". Even crying is involuntary, caused by the black pencil and mascara entering the eyes because I cannot calibrate the movement of the hand. A mechanic cry that, through those close details of my eyes, it is automatically transmitted to those who watch the video, in a sort of empathic conditioned connection, unconscious and therefore completely useless.
The video is one of the episodes of a larger project, open and traveling, that will grow with guerrilla performing throughout 2013. Learn more: withanhelmet.blogspot.it/
LINK TO VIDEO OF THE PERFORMANCE
https://vimeo.com/62669680
In this performance I'm wearing electrodes on both arms and I try to wear makeup. Involuntary contractions caused by electrical impulse are very strong and the makeup spreads all over my face, uncontrollably, turning me into a monster. In the background we hear the chorus of Nabucodonosor by Giuseppe Verdi, which has a very strong symbolic value in the history of my country, bringing along the ghosts of old struggles for freedom that no one remembers anymore. "My country, fair and lost". Even crying is involuntary, caused by the black pencil and mascara entering the eyes because I cannot calibrate the movement of the hand. A mechanic cry that, through those close details of my eyes, it is automatically transmitted to those who watch the video, in a sort of empathic conditioned connection, unconscious and therefore completely useless.
The video is one of the episodes of a larger project, open and traveling, that will grow with guerrilla performing throughout 2013. Learn more: withanhelmet.blogspot.it/
LINK TO VIDEO OF THE PERFORMANCE
https://vimeo.com/62669680
Duration (minutes)
15
What is needed
projector 5000 ansilumen
sound
- AV Performance
- Video Theatre
- Experimental Electronics
Authors
Francesca Fini
Italy Roma
