the AFTERMATH

I.AM.HAPPY.

 

I’m on a natural high!

I was closed to breaking down few hours before the show. Super stressed out! I had to re-render the video several times until it was finally right… but as soon as the jamming started, it was all gooooooood.  Everything turned out really well!!!!!!!

 

JE.SUIS.masaya.sobra…

 

arurumerci tout le monde 😀

 

 

 

 

i CONSUME therefore i am . . .

JAZEL KRISTIN (Philippines) concept, direction, montage

BELO (Haiti) chant et guitare

WASSIM ISA QASSIS (Palestine) oud, buzouq, percussions

FLAVIA MEIRELES (Brésil) danse performance

WATARU MIYAKAWA (Japon) composition de musique alto

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JAZEL KRISTIN est une documentariste et artiste multimédia des Philippines. Elle expose en France, aux Philippines et à Hong Kong et est actuellement en résidence à la Cité internationale des Arts grâce au programme de la Mairie de Paris. Jazel a été éminemment consumée par ce projet.

BELO, jeune chanteur et musicien Haitien est le lauréat du Prix Découvertes RFI 2006. Auteur, compositeur, interprète, son style musical est très marqué par le reggae, mele aussi des influences soul et se veut ouvert aux autres musiques de la Caraibe. Deux opus déjà à son actif: Lakou Trankil (2005) et Référence (2008).

WASSIM ISA QASSIS – Palestinian musician and composer. Plays several instruments such as Oud, Buzouq and percussions. Experienced several musical experiments and performances, and composed music for several local and international films.

FLAVIA MEIRELES is a dancer and choreographer based in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Her work is situated between contemporary dance, performance and visual arts. She collaborates with Brazilian choreographers and visual artists amongst them Marcela Levi, Gustavo Ciriaco and Micheline Torres. Her recent work, NO NAME, ALL-PURPOSE won the FUNARTE (National Foundation of Arts) Dance Prize Klauss Vianna 2008 in Brazil and a residency at Centre International de Exchanges d’Artistes Récollets (Paris, 2010)

WATARU MIYAKAWA Né en 1975, étudie la composition avec Georges Boeuf et Régis Campo au CRR de Marseille, et au CNSMD de Lyon avec Robert Pascal, Denis Lorrain et François Roux. Boursier du Gouvernement Français et de la Fondation Internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger, il est également l’auteur d’une thèse de Doctorat sur l’oeuvre de Toru Takemitsu.

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(images by NAOMI)

canned thoughts …

 

 

7 hours to go before my final soundcheck and technical rehearsal before I CONSUME THEREFORE I AM…

 

I.AM.PSCYHED!

 

This is only the beginning of everything…

 

Sensing my frustration and stress at the beginning of all these, A asked me if it was worth pushing through. He said he feels me being consumed by it all and that maybe I should focus on other personal projects and shift my creative angst onto something else… I thought about this really hard and I felt that I have to continue what I started, that this is all part of the process… because in the end, it all comes together. It’s all good. It’s all worth the pain.

So, I say LEZDUDIZ !!!  LET’s DO THIS!!!

 

JE CONSOMME DONC JE SUIS…

20H30, Cité des Arts, 18 rue de l’hotel de ville

metro: pont marie

 

Let’s ROCKandRULE

 

 

 

I CONSUME THEREFORE I AM (Je Consomme donc JE SUIS… )

 

I CONSUME THEREFORE I AM… a video montage of selected scenes from various films and series of interviews. A prologue to a future exhibition and documentary about What Consumes Us by Jazel Kristin (Philippines).

For this show, she collaborates with artists from around the world to interpret these universal truths.

Jazel has been deeply consumed by this project…

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JE CONSOMME DONC JE SUIS… un montage vidéo d’une sélection de scènes extraites de différents films et une séries d’interviews. Le prologue d’une exposition et d’un documentaire à venir : CE QUI NOUS CONSUME de Jazel Kristin (Philippines).

Pour l’occasion, elle collabore avec des artistes venus de divers pays du monde pour souligner le caractère universel de certaines vérités propres à l’homme, quel que soit son pays d’origine.

Jazel a été éminemment consumée par ce projet.

 

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20 JULY 2010 (20h30)
CITé INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
18, rue de l’hotel de ville
m: pont marie
Salle Edmond Michelet
Entrée Libre

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Route to ROOTS

   

   

  

I wasn’t really blown away by the photos/artworks on exhibit at Jeu de Paume gallery  

but there was this installation that hit home…   

  

It was by artist ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,    

who interviewed the first generation immigrants of Botkyrka in Sweden and asked them these questions…  

 

Since you first settled here, 

WHAT DID YOU LOSE?   WHAT DID YOU FIND?   WHAT DID YOU GET?  WHAT DID YOU GIVE?   

 

I wrote down the answers (from the transcript) that I can relate to.  

“I felt I had lost smells, colors, views and places where I lived and where I was born. There was something missing. I missed also some tastes. My mother tongue is your foreign language. The price is that I can never see the world as human being who comes from a specific place. I lost my personal identity. I lost the community, relationships, the possibility that your relationships will grow. I lost the landscape…”   

 

“My heart, half of my life is there, you can’t just forget it like that. I come to a foreign country to start all over. Maybe when you leave your home country you know consciously or subconsciously you have left behind things that you don’t want to bring along in some way. It’s very complicated. But I have it here inside me all the time. I don’t really know what I’ve gained and I don’t know what I’ve lost either, maybe I’ve gained wealth and diversity but lost kinship. The whole time you have to struggle to prove that you can. Even though we had everything I’ve felt that they were not our own things.”    

 

“I am happy, I am broader. I got space…both mental and well space. But you can always begin zero in your life, it doesn’t matter what age. I cannot be ashamed of my roots… You cry differently and laugh differently in your own language than you do in a new language.”    

 

“They say you have more baggage when you carry two cultures, two languages and that is both good and bad. There’s also a feeling of freedom in that, but also some loneliness. You both lose and find things. Valuable things in life that can be of critical importance for a person’s personality. What you lose…in some ways you lose the roots that you had back home. You’re uprooted from your origins and leave behind your childhood memories that are sacred to every person. You begin a journey to uncertainty, a very unsure future, you don’t know what’s going to happen. I felt like a plant without its roots.”  

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I remember a woman who went to my PARALLEL UNiVERSE exhibit opening in Paris    

and mentioned the presence of trees in my photo collages, for her it symbolizes our roots.  

 One should not forget our roots, Wherever we may be.   

 

  

 

   the-making of some photo collages from PARALLEL UNiVERSE

    

  “I feel that the roots are the ones that are inside of me and I carry them with me no matter where I am in the world.” 

 

  

Esther Shalev-Gerz 

Jeu de Paume 

9 February – 6 June 2010 

 

C’est la VIE

 

This poster caught my eye 😀

ART related to Death & Skulls,  I HEART!

 

made out of black gloves & colored pencils

i see dead people

handcarved fruit & vegetables

 (shot with my mobile phone)

 

 

I loved the different Art interpretations of Death.

From Classic paintings to Contemporary Art, Caravaggio to Damien Hirst!

There were paintings, sculptures, video, photographs, installations, and even jewelry.

 

DAMIEN HIRST's diamond encrusted skull

JAN FABRE

CARAVAGGIO

 

Vanitas themes were common in medieval funerary art, with most surviving examples in sculpture. By the 15th century these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death and decay also seen in the Ars moriendi, Danse Macabre and the overlapping motif of the Memento mori.  Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. They also provided a moral justification for many paintings of attractive objects.

 

GUIDO MOCAFICO

NICOLAS RUBENSTEIN

 

Vanités Lives on ! 

 

* (last 6 images from the Net)