Making love: foreplay
Making love: foreplay
performer
VERUSKA CATTELAN
assistant
concept/direction
WERTHER GERMONDARI
The action of preparing a ham in order to get the first slice (elimination of the external hard skin, of the little round bone, etc.) has seen as a metaphorical loving action's first stage, that women appreciate more than men (usually they go straight to the hard core!). My performance would also mean a sort of symbolic revenge of women on this male attitude.
L’azione della preparazione di un prosciutto per arrivare all’affettatura vera e propria (eliminazione dell’osso, ecc.) vuole essere metafora della fase iniziale dell’atto amoroso, notoriamente più apprezzato dalle donne che dagli uomini, che tendono ad arrivare più velocemente al sodo (in questo caso alla prima fetta).
Facendo l’amore: i preliminari
2002, minidv, 14’, videoperformance
screenings/exhibitions:
•an Art Surgery project, group exhibition, Ten Gallery, St.Ives, UK, 20/9/2002
•Edo City, group exhibition, Roma, Italy, 4/10/2002
•Arte in transito, group exhibition, Rialto S.Ambrogio, Roma, Italy, 10/2002
•Moskow Media Art Festival 2003
•Eros et Amo, video for the readings, prod.Quelli di Astaroth, Ostadetheater, Amsterdam, 27 / 5 / 2006
•VideoPuntoZero, group exhibition, Torino, Italy, 19/5/2007
link to the video:
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