Festivals, Italy, Ferrara, 03 March 2018
On March 3rd at 5.30 pm at Palazzo Stroffa the videoperformance of "Ecce (H) omo, Guerrieri", intense work by Kyrahm for the Festival delle Arti curated by Francesca Mariotti with the Patronage of the Municipality of Ferrara and Ferrara Film Commission.
Kyrahm, one of the protagonists of Italian performance and live art, has tackled the delicate theme of human frailty by showing the poetic crudeness of life through a work on Love, which arises after a troubled period of the artist's health problems.
Film of a live performance presented in 2016 in Rome in the Falletti Palace and in Venice for the Venice International Performance Art Week curated by VestAndPage, a reunion of the names of historical and recent body art including Marina Abramovic, Stelarc, ORLAN, Franko B, Marce-there Antunez Roca, Yoko Ono, Marilyn Arsem.
The work takes place entering room and room and the audience is every time to deal with their innermost emotions
and become lovers. Any pietism is chased away, there is room only for an act of love.
About Ecce (H) Homo, Warriors:
"One of the most beautiful and important works that I have seen throughout my life" (Giorgia Tribuiani, writer)
"An example of struggle and love" (Elena Balestri, Funweek)
"An action so powerful that it could be called the photograph of an existential manifesto" (Andrea Murnik, researcher NisemTu)
"The work instills the desire for an Arcadian return to nature" (Roberto Bracaglia, critical scene)
Videoperformance trailer:
https://vimeo.com/172256604
Biography of the artist
Kyrahm, author, director and international performance artist, is one of the representatives of Italian live art. Looking for a constant dialogue with the cinema, her research is the subject of study at Academies and Universities in Europe, in the United States and in Latin America. She has won awards and institutional awards in Italy and abroad, presenting his work at numerous exhibitions, exhibitions, festivals and initiatives all over the world.
From 2009 to 2013 she curated the International Festival of Performance Mutations.
She works with Julius Kaiser, videomakers and performance artists.
Awards
2015 Gender Obsolescence wins as best artist film section Comizi d'Amore dedicated to Pierpaolo Pasolini Film Festival of the Archipelago with the following motivation:
"Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser show the new frontiers of gender identity amalgamating, with disarming incisiveness and poetry, live art and video image, the body of the soul and the soul of the body.
With the same astonishing frankness of Pier Paolo Pasolini. "
2010 best performance section Body Art of the Premio Adrenalina, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome
2009 Winners of the Performance Art section of the Venice International Art Prize
2009 Among the 30 best Performance Gender Exploration of the World, IDKex, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Kyrahm, one of the protagonists of Italian performance and live art, has tackled the delicate theme of human frailty by showing the poetic crudeness of life through a work on Love, which arises after a troubled period of the artist's health problems.
Film of a live performance presented in 2016 in Rome in the Falletti Palace and in Venice for the Venice International Performance Art Week curated by VestAndPage, a reunion of the names of historical and recent body art including Marina Abramovic, Stelarc, ORLAN, Franko B, Marce-there Antunez Roca, Yoko Ono, Marilyn Arsem.
The work takes place entering room and room and the audience is every time to deal with their innermost emotions
and become lovers. Any pietism is chased away, there is room only for an act of love.
About Ecce (H) Homo, Warriors:
"One of the most beautiful and important works that I have seen throughout my life" (Giorgia Tribuiani, writer)
"An example of struggle and love" (Elena Balestri, Funweek)
"An action so powerful that it could be called the photograph of an existential manifesto" (Andrea Murnik, researcher NisemTu)
"The work instills the desire for an Arcadian return to nature" (Roberto Bracaglia, critical scene)
Videoperformance trailer:
https://vimeo.com/172256604
Biography of the artist
Kyrahm, author, director and international performance artist, is one of the representatives of Italian live art. Looking for a constant dialogue with the cinema, her research is the subject of study at Academies and Universities in Europe, in the United States and in Latin America. She has won awards and institutional awards in Italy and abroad, presenting his work at numerous exhibitions, exhibitions, festivals and initiatives all over the world.
From 2009 to 2013 she curated the International Festival of Performance Mutations.
She works with Julius Kaiser, videomakers and performance artists.
Awards
2015 Gender Obsolescence wins as best artist film section Comizi d'Amore dedicated to Pierpaolo Pasolini Film Festival of the Archipelago with the following motivation:
"Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser show the new frontiers of gender identity amalgamating, with disarming incisiveness and poetry, live art and video image, the body of the soul and the soul of the body.
With the same astonishing frankness of Pier Paolo Pasolini. "
2010 best performance section Body Art of the Premio Adrenalina, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome
2009 Winners of the Performance Art section of the Venice International Art Prize
2009 Among the 30 best Performance Gender Exploration of the World, IDKex, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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