Italiano
The best way to explore the reality which surrounds me is to work on what I know best – myself. Through the use of painting and photography, my investigation focuses on two fundamental themes: the “disguised” identity and table games. Both ideas, which often mix, inspired me to study the dynamic between players happening during the game and the importance this interaction has on the development and formation of each individual. The sheer joy I felt in my young years when creating costumes transformed through time into the sensual pleasure of transvestitism. Acknowledging that through “masking” I can be someone I am actually not, without losing my true self, I can direct my multiple personalities to a playful and cheerful place.
Arte Tag: femminilità
Sara Lucas Agutoli
My artistic research wants to analyze issues of selfrepresentation, gender and narration and to let them dialogue in a dialectic way, trying, at the same time, to deconstruct the cultural sterotypes.
The performative self-shots I present, born out of long-studied mise-en-scènes, are personal inquiries into the relationship between gender and sexual nature; they are reflections on the androgynous, plural and fluid representation of identity, and also meditations on the bond between whoever stage the scene, the photographer, the place and the audience. I try to explore and overcome the limits between the differrent players of the elaboration and reception of the photographic shot, blurring at the same time the boundaries between subject and object, observer and actor thanks to the use of the self-shot, the performance and the inclusion of the spectator into the construction of the meaning of the photo.
Diane Busuttil
Busuttil holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance from The University of Western Sydney. In 2000, she was awarded a DAAD scholarship to study at The International Women’s University in Germany. Since 2011, she is an artist mentor for DAAD Australia.
She has performed and collaborated with a diverse range of artistic groups in the capacity of dancer, acrobat, teacher, choreographer, producer and director.
Her short films have screened at over twenty International Queer and Women’s film festivals. Fresh Fruit, her latest short, was the recipient of a Taste Award in LA, Hollywood.
Ninas Drag Queen
Nina’s Drag Queens is a theatre group born in Milan at Teatro Ringhiera that produces rivista shows, original scripts, classic theatre adaptations and that stages workshops for junior drag and faux queens. According to how they describe their practice, their work is comparable to the figure of the clown: “we wear costumes, full-face make-up and we engage the audience with our comedy.” However, they continue, “it is not all about that: a drag queen, -for our understanding-, not only makes one laugh, it makes them thrilled, disturbed, moved.
We’re imitators before actors. We manipulate what is already in existence. Playback and referencing are thus turned into our expression. It’s a sort of ironic method, which denies itself, which is always as well, carrier of a point of view on what it represents which ultimately generates juxtapositions of sense. We don’t try to represent femininity as much as we try to represent the feminine form, the “woman-image” before the woman herself. “
Francesca Fini
Francesca Fini (Rome, 1970) is an Italian artist working with new media and performance art. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices, live audio and video. Primarily interested in video and live art, she also creates tangible artworks assembling performance art ‘relics’ and fine art prints of digitally processed video stills.
Among the Art events in which she took part in the last few years, we would mention the 2011 WRO Biennale in Poland, ADD Festival at MACRO Museum in Rome, the finals of Laguna International Art Prize in Venice, CINEMED Film Festival in Montpellier, Taormina Film Festival, Berlin Directors Lounge, IKONO TV Film Festival, FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, FONLAD Digital Art Festival, Cologne Off and Magmart Video Art Festival, which she won in 2010, 2012 and 201 In 2012 she has been invited to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”, curated by VestAndPage, featuring among the others the work of Valie Export, Jan Fabre, Yoko Ono, Boris Nieslony and Hermann Nitsch. In 2014 she was selected by the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, organized by the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was invited in Kolkata, India, for the “Ghosts of Shakespeare” Performance Art Festival, and she has been selected to participate to the International Watermill Center Summer Program, directed by Robert Wilson in Watermill, New York.