the foundry
86 great eastern street
shoreditch, london ec2a 3jl
SHEren in A-MemOry of July 7th
Laura Cristin will continue
her journey in the Time, in the Music by Dario Della Rossa, in London Biennale.
On July 7th, soon after the celebration of the awareness of the first Solstice
of her Life (being born on June 13th), getting deep in the centre of Love
where Life and Death meet, in the first anniversary of the terrorist attack
of 2005. Deep in the .WAVe of AMO traced in the cetacean SHEren&dolpHEn
poetic, exploring the possibilities of M as Music, but also of the Memory
of whatever can not be forgot, thinking about the Whale finding death in the
river Thames in January this year, around of the date of Mozart’s birth
and the Memory of the Holocaust. The main instrument is the body through its
identity of SHEren/dolpHEn and its distinctive notes: not only bathing caps,
siren’s flukes or dolphins of real plastic, but also a “palo de
lluvia” that has been played in ApuliA and in A-MexicO to re-create
the ancestral sound of the Sea, together with everyone wanting to stay in
the same Wave as a grain of sand or a single drop of water in the Ocean.
Laura Cristin has assumed
the identity of SHEren/dolpHEn and started the performances in 2003, after
the Cill Rialaig art residency in Ireland. Meeting Fungi, the dolphin of the
Bay of Dingle, in contact with the Ocean, she started to think of her artist
identity of SHEren (siren) in relation to the one of “dolpHEn”
feeling the need of expressing in other ways, beyond painting. Art actions
followed in Madrid (“SHEren in search of dolpHEn” 2003, “SHEren’sCASE”
2005, “in Memoria11MAR04” 2006), in Finland (“Getting ready
for summer” 2004), Germany (“The Little Magic Mermaid” 2005)
and Italy (in Venice for MPI in 51Biennale 2005, Udine, Lecce, Florence, Padua,
Bologna, Macerata, Foggia, Milan). Her presence in London Biennale 2006 (“draw_drawing_2”,
“human technology”, “Arcadia” and “MayDay Flag”)
follows the participation in “Performagia 4” in Mexico City for
Museo Universitario del Chopo -with the action “SHEren in A-MexicO”
and the talk “The identity as handmade- and the performance “SHEren’s
First Solstice” in Gorizia, by the river Isonzo in coincidence with
the Solstice of June. She likes to fix the emotions felt on the way in paintings
like the SHErensigns or Artist Trading Cards. In the main theme of Siren&dolphin
she traces transversal waves like the recent A-M-O that after the A of Andersen
in 2005, explores this year the M of Music, already projected towards the
O of 2007. In her art the interaction with places, persons and other artists’
research is very important. The most significant collaboration is from/with
the musician Dario Della Rossa, author of the music for her performances.
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