![]() The last scene, "Départ", speaks to my sense that life is short, that it will soon be over and that I have these precious moments to look back and revel in my own pure physicality as a dancing spirit to the very end. SONIA DELAUNAY (1884-1979) Les Illuminations the complete portfolio of fourteen pochoirs in colors, on Arches paper, 1973, with title page, text in French. Think Boccaccio, Bosch, Rodin, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Blake, Busby Berkeley, vaudeville, early cinema, Martha Graham, drag show. And all this during a 21st century plague. or, as Ru Paul is known to say, "We are all born naked, and the rest is drag." I am also intentionally provoking a deeper visceral response from the viewer: a fascination, a trance-like suspension of shame, a sense that we are all naked beneath social constructs, that the poetic soul seeks to expose our deepest yearnings and desires and see them mirrored and revealed in the"savage parade" of life. ![]() ![]() You might ask: Why the naked bodies? I am responding to the over-the-top eroticism in the musical textures and Rimbaud's poetry, exploiting my own body as a moving sculpture, oracle of possession. Arthur Rimbaud himself never published Les illuminations, which is why many aspects of this collection remain obscure. #Les illuminations archiveThe work came together quickly, and I supplemented my miniature videos shot in my home studio with my own digitized archive of footage shot over the past decade. Les Illuminations is a realization of that positive state of chaos so ardently desired by its creator: a flux in which language disintegrates and. 2 Towns These are towns It is for the inhabitants of towns that. I think of medieval monks bent over their tables etching and painting the illuminations to "illuminate" sacred texts. A bizarre design of bridges, now straight, now curved, and others descending in oblique angles to. 1 Fanfare I alone hold the key to this savage parade. Shooting against greenscreen in limited space, I improvised multiple characters or doppelgängers to populate the "illuminations" or vivid monoprints of my husband and artist, John Gutoskey. Benjamin Britten: Les IlluminationsRoxana Constantinescu Mezzo-sopranoPekka Kuusisto ConcertmasterIlya Gringolts ViolinOszkr Varga ViolinSofa Roldan-Cativa. Hallucinations and wild imaginings: join Finnish musical pioneer Pekka Kuusisto on a journey into the strange and the wonderful in the second concert in his. Benjamin Britten's settings of Rimbaud's sensual, hallucinatory verses (and Nicholas Phan's extraordinary singing) inspired a weeklong binge of video-making in my cloistered, 12' x 18' home studio during the first week of "shelter in place". ![]()
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