‘In Conversation With The Beast’ | Performance, Photographs by Ursula Marcussen & Mixed Media Poetry | For Gentle Them’s 3 Day Manifestation works
2022
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE BEAST
Multidisciplinary: Performance, Photography & Mixed-Media Art Direction
Gentle Them was an event that opened the doors to BIPOC and queer, LGBTQIA+ Identities to exhibit and delegate the protection within the art industry. The talks covered points such as demanding constructive diversity, visibility and fair pay. Gentle Them aimed to be a booking agency at propagating professional traction for artists of all disciplines and within their fields.
In Conversation With The Beast came as a conflict and the concept of confrontation, trauma and liberation. The characters which by fate are chained to each other, must confront each other in a cathartic fight. This vital performance transcends into the spectator’s personal space and into their minds attempting to connect them to the intensity of universal and/or familiar trauma. Through the physical fight, the guardian, symbol of confrontation takes the tramatized and enraged inner self to a lighter space of patience and sentience. This performance was developed, directed and desgined by Ursula Marcussen and myself.
The photographs are a parallel connection to the performanc as a kindred, positive aspect in the acceptance of expressing aggressive energy. Seeking with curiosity the poetic and the child-like self.
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Lucciana Bolivar
Lucciana is a Honduran/Colombian mixed-media artist and poet who began autodidactic practices in 2011.
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Lucciana Bolivar
