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ORACLE: Channeling 2011

2012-06-29T18:35:05.304Z

“Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.” - Jean Baudrillard

On February 11-12 and March 11-12 from 7-10pm ROOMS remounted their original performance piece from their popular Oracle series ORACLE:CHANNELING featuring Todd Frugia and Marrakesh.

Each night was a three-hour event where two blindfolded performers (Todd and Marrakesh) were surrounded by eight televisions – each with a different local channel’s live broadcast. These performers were “plugged into” four televisions each by means of headphones blasting the audio of an audience selected channel. The audience did not hear the televisions’ audio, but only the amplified voices of the performers as they repeated every word they heard in their headphones. And since the performers were on different sets of televisions, the audience got to experience a unique conversation between the daily barrage of commercials, news programs, dramas, and comedies.

If the explanation sounds complicated – don’t worry – once you see the documentation you’ll find a concept that’s fun and provocative! It’s a piece that tests the talents of the performers while bringing up a myriad of questions concerning the profundity of our relationship with this thing called TELEVISION.

ROOMS Productions is Marrakesh & Todd Frugia. ROOMS is dedicated to exploring and strengthening the relationship between artist and audience by experimenting with the creative process and expanding the vocabulary of language and experience through video and live performance.

Prayer before birth M .Louveau video by Holly Warburton.mp4

2011-06-07T12:27:28.609Z

Muriel Louveau performs her piece Prayer before birth/Persephone . Video created and edited by Holly Warburton . Cello Tanera Dawkins

Can you eat me? - Elvira Frosini / Kataklisma

2011-05-08T18:24:06.740Z

K-O-Incidence Series

Can you eat me?

di e con Elvira Frosini
collaborazione artistica Daniele Timpano; Antonello Santarelli
produzione Kataklisma

Una performance scaturita dalla ricerca per la nuova produzione 2011 sul tema del cibo, un rivolo che scorre e si chiude. Un fiume di parole, parole che vengono vomitate, costante masticare, adesione onnivora al mondo, ossessione del mangiare. In bilico fra mangiare ed essere mangiati, divorare ed essere divorati, il performer in pasto al pubblico, in pasto agli occhi famelici o svogliati. Un corpo in scena: marginale, precario, fragile; pasto per la festa, fatto di spreco assoluto. Corpo digerente, spettatore digerente.

Performance resulted from the research for new production 2011 on the theme of food: a stream that runs and closes. A river of words, words that are vomited, constant chewing, omnivorous adherence to the world, obsession of the food. In the balance between eating and being eaten, to devour and be consumed, the meal performer is the meal for the public, she is food for the hungry or lazy eyes. A body on stage: marginal, precarious, fragile meal for the party, made up of absolute waste. Body digestive, digestive viewer.

Reperto#01 - Kataklisma

2011-05-08T18:06:22.309Z

Reperto#01
elvira frosini e giacomo calabrese direction and dramaturgy elvira frosini

Reperto#01 is conceived as the passing through a place the is a no-place, a suspended place and time, that inhabits us. The instant is the focus of the work. The place takes sense under and through the view of the spectators, in which the spectar is inside and outside at the same time. A kind of post-hell, place and bodies exposed to the view and to the building of sense, a place of absence and presence of sense. The space (also the space of the spectators) is completely covered with cellophane floating in shapes and colours. The project is a fluxus of images, lights, actions suspended, between oniric and echoes of concrete images, concerning the images and the use we do of them. Bodies and images are esposed at the use of the view. Reperto#01 investigates the relationship between the vision of the spectator and the creation of a sense. In the last part of the work the spectator is watched by the performer through an imaginary videocamera inverting the relationship of watching, showing, being watched that is the specific point of the representation.
In this work the time is continuosly suspended, creating a new time. The imagines created and destroyed on the scene are made of not naturalistic but not abstract contents, searching a dimension between oniric and ritual, that is the dimension we are searching inside the History and the reality, rescueing basical and "originary" emotion, relationships, connections, significants signs. We called Reperto#01 an "archeological research" on images, bodies, and the specific conditions of representation. The spectators are called to build sense and emotional connections with the images and situations on the scene taking materials from their/our imaginary and background, also historical background in the largest sense of the word.
Reperto#01 in a certain sense is "a-storical" just because it has to do with the History. It can be read in historical way while it is suspending time and it is is made at the same time of human signs. Spectator can feel, perceive but also "reflect " (in the original sense of the word") a Historical dimension of the images and of himself, a personal history and a common History too. The history of the XX century is undertaken in such elements like dinamics, relationship between man and woman, the Technic and the image society, but this interpretation can be estended in a wider way to the humanity history, focusing a balance between the symbol, the mistery of being human, and the concrete presence, the material gesture.

Video-performance "Erotic GUMan"

2011-05-02T18:03:35.108Z

Video Performance made in the museum ExTeresa ArteActual of Mexico City, about the erotic side of chewing gum and the publicity around it. Made in collaboration with Moises Regla.