Projekt JE SUIS

Foto & video installation/performance

zusammen mit Valentina Torrado

Über JE SUIS

Je suis arbeitet durch die Performance und Intervention in den gesellschaftlichen Alltag in verschiedenen Orten der Welt. Je suis Felicia (Deutschland), je suis Morgana (Uruguay), Je suis Olimpia (Spanien), Je suis Islandia (Deutschland u. Island). Das Kunstprojekt JE SUIS, besteht sich aus zwei Phasen: die erste beruht auf dem Performance und Intervention der Personnage (Charakter) in einer besondere Stadt und Land. Zwischen dem Performer und der Stadt ergibt sich wie eine Art Eroberungsbeziehung.
In der zweiten Phase wird durch einen fotografischen Prozess zusammen mit einer Videoinstallation die Spuren diese Personnage gezeigt.

About JE SUIS

Je suis is an art and communications project that works by creating a multiplicity of characters who perform in different places around the world, with particular emphasis on proposing a social and cultural exploration of the spaces they occupy through art.

Je suis works as a quasi- theatrical representation thanks to the simulation of a diversity of created characters who will design and build the urban spaces in which they are performing. They will act as “agents” in breaking off public spaces from their normal function everyday life.

The project attempts to narrate aspects of social relations through the visual documentation of these characters´ actions and the different attitudes which emerge when they invade the space of ordinary daily life; scenes from quotidian existence, in a subway, on the street, natural spaces, or private ones. Thereby the relation between public – receiver and the created character (considered as an art work) will be explored. The project works intensively on the creation of cultural links through art by trying to uncover which specific aspects of each particular society present themselves as something different. How does the public react when an exotic new character interrupts the normal routine? What are the changes in relations that grow from these actions?

Je suis has two parts which take place concurrently; the first is the exploration of the selected spaces in which the fictional character will perform (public and private areas in a specific country). In the second part, after each performance, their traces are shown through Photo and Video Installations in an art space in the country where the character was created.

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