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Laguna Nord – The Performance Path
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with: Laura Cristin, Maurizio Follin, Gabriella Gallo, Rita Pierangelo, PLG, Renato Sclaunich, Francesca Zanetti (Taki)
curated by Giancarlo Da Lio for Ambasciata di Venezia
parallel event insideoutside Biennale
PROPOSAL. The Northern Lagoon of Venice is something fascinating and unique in Europe. A place where humans still care about and shape a habitat suspended between sea and heaven. A body of water the boundaries of which are not so easy to define. Like those of performance art so often misunderstood and improperly used in various contexts. So, an interesting and unpredictable fusion, inspired both by the uniqueness of the Place and by the unique and lively emotions that the performers feel and express once there. Together they renew the chance of a joint practice, in harmony with Nature and aware of its prevalence over human action. An Act of Mother Earth with which artists tune in. To be revealed in brand new ways. GDL
FACTS (Brief review, book ongoing). What a bEAUtiful and surprising fluxus happening at the Jujube Festival in Lio Piccolo, enjoying good vibes and good times, reading poems in front of the flamingos, performing at the Punta Sabbioni where Mose dam stops the Adriatic Sea intruding into the Lagoon, or at the Cavallino viewpoint, proudly holding the ensigns of the red winged Lio(n) of Saint Mark emblem of the Biennale. Great to search (and found) connections with the star-shaped Venetian city of Palmanova or to twin with the Frisian Islands’ perimeter which equally protects the German coasts from the exhuberance of the Nordsee! LC
from LONDON, with LOVE
Laura Cristin SHEren, on the occasion of her 70th year of life returned to London to celebrate/fully experience LOVE occurring along art-life. Dear ones helped, so as the crochet top and the shark Tee bought in London long time ago. Still in good condition. Seeing places through the eyes of my grandchildren was essential.
Scandinavian Sheren – April 2024
Exactly twenty years after the performance in Helsinki, Sheren returns to Scandinavia, Stockholm this time. Thanks to Giancarlo and Giulia Da Lio, Kristel, Christer and Enzo for the support!
Recent updatings: “Re-naissanceS” playlist now athttp://versopolis.com/initiative/poetry-expo-24/content/1490/re-naissances; “Healing in London” at “Il Valore dello Scarto” festival in Rignano sull’Arno on April 28th; currently working on “Sheren’s Re-naissance Tarot” book.
LFS at Poetry Expo 2023
Taking part in Poetry Expo 2023 by Versopolis, Beletrina Academic Press of Lubiana is fantastic. Online opening on January 31st at 18:00 (https://fb.me/e/2uX9hLlcE).
My project Le Fableaux Sheren is at https://www.versopolis.com/initiative/poetry-expo-23/content/1257/le-fableaux-sheren from 1st of February and will be visible until the end of the festival.
Here’s the gist of my contribution but have a look at it all!
What about poetry as a LIT-by-LOVE issue, not necessarily dependent on words? Whatever the language – even a glance or a silence – can be equally or more eloquent than a piece of written LITerature. Le Fableaux Sheren is a sampling of performances where personal feelings connect with wider contexts, where everyone – in their own way – can immerse themselves in a common Time, thinking and perhaps creating a better world!
Cribs and Stars 2022
Cribs assisted by propitious stars – linked to mOZart, good music and people, occurred in 2022 bringing opportunities for rebirths with art and friendship, in Forte Marghera, Jesolo (Venice), Fusine lakes (Tarvisio), Rignano sull’Arno, Monfalcone and wherever love has been shared. Link to “magic mOZart” performance at https://youtu.be/apaY9ardTPs
“Giustisia e Fortesa” from Palmanova to Venice
On Saturday, September 26th, 2020, at Forte Marghera (Venezia), Palmanova building, from 7 pm, at the opening of the international collective event “Stendardi”, organized by Officine, Rosso Veneziano, with the contribution of Itinerari 80. Exhibition lasts till October 11th.
Link video “Giustisia&Fortesa https://youtu.be/3zAPyCn62LA
“Giustisia and Fortesa” – in the Bisiac dialect which is my native language related to the Venetian – are cardinal virtues as well as two figures of the Major Arcana to be practiced as a way towards the never ending human enlightment. The standard personifies both Justice (VIII) and Strenght (XI), in Sheren’s art identity. They are connected respectively to the balance of Libra and to the constellation of Leo that holds the double star of Regulus in the chest, among the four regal ones of the firmament. The painting on canvas is as tall as me and seven times – but in proportion – larger than the Visconti-Sforza cards preserved between New York (Morgan Library) and Bergamo (Colleoni collection). It enters fully into the personal research of Tarotensigns undertaken in 2005 and which now counts almost the complete set of twenty-two, each of which is connected with precise moments of art-life. For the occasion the first “off-site” ensign made in 2005 for Giancarlo Da Lio and the Embassy of Venice, is brought back to the theme of the Tarot as the”Magician” who starts the whole journay.
In “Giustisia e Fortesa” as a performance, the personal visual research is intertwined and retraces from 1 to 11 the musical fragments composed by Dario Della Rossa in the broader parallel and consonant path undertaken together. In succession, the tracks: 01 Magician 00:58 – 02 Popess 01:04 – 03 Empress 00:22 – 04 Emperor 00:18 – 05 Pope 01:39 – 06 Lover 02:38 – 07 Cart 00:19 – 08Justice 00:58 – 09 Hermit 02:36 – 10 Wheel 01:15 – Strenght 00:58).
It happens from Palmanova – the star shaped city near which I live – to the building of the same name in Forte Marghera, on September 26, 2020, to sanction and reaffirm an unprecedented twinning of freedom and strength.
“1st of May 2020”
On the first of May 2020, my thoughts are for the beauty of life and for the necessity of the art in the past, present and future!
“Suite for Dawn”
The Ouverture of the “Suite for Dawn” is meant as a suggestion to prepare all of us for a new beginning after Coronavirus’ quarantine. I composed it with words (and images) according with the Baroque and Renaissance dance. Let’s start with Allemanda in a binary rhythm that refers to my installation of Lucia and Gertrude, as narrated by Manzoni at the time of the plague in Milan. Corrente, a triple metre dance follows, where I remind all my travelling with Dawn – an artist from London – as well as the friendship with Dario, the musician (featured in Sarabanda). The last movement – Giga – reaches the apex of the heavens because Dawn ‘passed away’ on March 2nd but when I look at the painting “Paradiso” left here, I know (s)he is still with me.
Full texts and images in the contribution for Compendio del Tempo Sospeso at https://www.microbo.net/2020/03/laura-cristin-2/
Mermaid table for #ILMAREAPALMANOVA
Saturday 8 September, in Piazza Grande in Palmanova, I will participate – with the Tavola delle Sirene – in “Il Mare a Palmanova”, dinner in blue for the 40 years of the law 180, co-organized by Consorzio Il Mosaico and the City of Palmanova, in collaboration with creaa, A+AUD and with the patronage of the Healthcare Company 2, Bassa Friulana, Isontina.
It will be an opportunity to dine with friends on the same or other wavelengths, sharing the experiences related to the direct attendance of the years of Basaglia in Gorizia between 1966 and 1972, to relive and cultivate again, with joy and gratitude, the imprinting of freedom that still animates Sheren’s art/life journey.
Fb page:https://www.facebook.com/events/649109105467383/
Venice #route
On July 19, with Inés and Ayelén, I was back in Venice to visit the 57th Biennale. Soon I will complete with a further image, the project already visible in http://lauracristin.itit/works/a-special-day-in-57biennalevenezia/
Wonderful!
