Maneries /Basel/ Buenos aires : Manon Bellet

"Maneries" a performing arts project
Voltahalle, Basel, switzerland, 2008
spring 2009, buenos aires

creation: Florencia Vecino& Luis Garay (ARG)
Performer: Florencia Vecino (ARG)
Video and live drawings : Manon Bellet (CH)
Violin: Sasha Rozhdestvensky (RU)
Original Sound: Mauro AP (ARG)

Concieved& Directed by Luis Garey 2008

For the duration of the performance (1 hour), I sit alone at a table with a single sheet of paper and draw.
The whole process is being filmed, and the live footage is projected by two video projectors.
The audience is in the front with the two video projections, which are projected into two separate corners within the scene.
I begin the drawing on a blank sheet of paper and finish with a composition mixing both drawing and "photo-collage".
The audience don't see the whole process, only five sequences from it and these are taken from specific moments.

The body as linguistic material. Representation of images of representation, a game of perception and insides.
Forms that mutate into other forms, forms being crossed by time, a time that is being opening a space for what is next. Identity as a construction that is not given, as a challenge of something to be built, destroyed or simply observed. MANERIES is either gendre or individual, it embraces is both, like an example.

Luis Garey, 2008