Balada Corporal, Part II : Liquid Body - Political Body

In Memory of Vinicio Pagnes • Liquid is the state in which matter maintains a fix volume but adapts to the shape of the container.

Two tables are set in a room. Sheets of the score of Mozart’s Lacrimosa, the unfinished part of his Requiem, cover the floor in a circle. The walls are filled with writings: laments of contemporary people. Parts of a man’s suit are hanging from the ceiling. The man takes off his jacket and completes the suit with it. The woman pulls the suit up under the ceiling. The man sits on a chair. A nurse takes off blood from his veins and pours it into seven empty crystal wine glasses. The woman sits at another table. The Lacrimosa sounds from her chest. She covers herself with the tablecloth and moves her torso forwards and backwards. The man offers his blood in the glasses to the public. The woman washes off the laments from the wall with water. The man shaves and covers his entire body with white paint. The woman wraps herself in a string with candles.  She makes the public enlighten the candles. She whirls around herself until all candles are blown out.

1. *The performance series Balada Corporal consists of currently four parts. It speaks about the continuity of becoming, the difficulties of real encounters unleashing the physical boundaries of body surface, and transformation through concrete communication- physical, psychological, verbal and non-verbal. The visitors gather with the performers to re-awaken what is constitutional to all humans: the expressive power of body and language. These keynotes help to overcome the actual frozen state of being- not as a matter of nostalgia, but rather to ingrain pure poetry into life by re-evaluating the necessity of honest and sincere human interchange.

* Photos: David von Blohn

* Duration: 30 Minutes

* Club Fabrica, Valparaiso Chile. October 2010.

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