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29 October 2009 | Thursday 16:00
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Duration: 4-6 Hrs
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In the throes of an eccentric laughter often indistinguishable with crying, the artists physically and symbolically carry the burden of the words they gradually reveal. Commands, headlines, sound-bites, slogans and confessions overlap and involve us in a game of shifting meanings in ecclectic forms. Are we in a detention camp? Or are we part of a political demonstration? Or is this a battlefield?
In this intense performance, La Ribot merges the meanings fixed in images and words with those created by the position of the spectators. This work demonstrates how the terms “performance” and “exhibition” once marking the boundary between dance and visual arts have now in fact merged in performative art practice. The audience is free to come and go at any point throughout this project which lasts between 4-6 hours, participating in the making of temporary images and meanings as the performance unfolds. Written and directed by: La Ribot | Performance: Marie-Caroline Hominal, La Ribot, Delphine Rosay | Sound design and performance: Clive Jenkins | English translation with: Catherine Phelps | La Ribot is supported by: La Ville de Genève, La République et Canton de Genève,Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, and La Loterie Romande | Production office: La Ribot – Geneva | Management: Grégory Ysewyn | Production assistant/Tour manager: Anouk Fürst | Creation: June 12, 2006 Art Unlimited – Art Basel 37 produced by Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid | Thanks to: Sophie Alphonso, Yan Duyvendak, Michel Hamerski, Nelson Jimenez, Gilles Jobin, Sylvie Kleber, Yann Marussich, Daisy Phillips, Ruth Childs, Ursula Achternkamp,Victor Roy, Pablo Jobin, Karine Vintache, Maria-Carmela Mini, Mélanie Rouquier,Soledad Lorenzo Further Reading: Rachel Lois Clapham-Livartuk.org La Ribot interview by Noémie Solomon_iDANS blog_ENG Laughing Hole Jaime Conde Salazar (.PDF)
A dancer by training, choreographer and visual artist, Maria Ribot has contributed to the development of contemporary dance in Spain since the mid-80s. In 1991, under the name of La Ribot, she took her work along new paths by creating scenic works at the moving intersection of live art, performance and video. Humor and eccentricity are the distinctive features of her work, which covers a broad artistic field and questions the realities of economics and marketing around performance and art at the present time. Between 1997 and 2001, she organized the Desviaciones cycle in Madrid, an international meeting point for contemporary dance. In 2000, she is awarded the national dance prize by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. During her London years between 1997 and 2004, her solo performances endowed her distinction especially in the plastic arts scene. In these works, the body is exposed both as chosen subject and as living material. Since moving to Geneva in 2004, she has taught at HEAD - Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design and continues her exploration of different mediums, the latest fruit of which is llámame mariachi that was premiered last August in La Bâtie Festival in Geneva.