Artist: Louel (Loucas Ioannou & Elena Kotasvili)
Location: Garden or any other space given by the commission of the NY Biennale.
Duration: 1 hour.
Performers: Loucas Ioannou, Elena Kotasvili.
The project titled recreating, repeating, reassessing will be a live action within an installation.
Recreating the scene:
The scene from David Lynch’s movie Mulholland Drive, where the director chooses an actress, the actress through series of auditions with the sixties imagery, will be recreated for the project. Specifically the installation will consist of a stage obviously influenced by the sixties imagery and character of the movie scene.
The action will take place within the installed set where performer1 will perform an actress auditioning. Performer1 will be performing the song I've told every little star written by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II and performed by Linda Scott. Performer2, the director, will be sitting on a director’s chair facing the scene and assessing the acting of Performer1. The audience will not have specifically arranged sits but will be able to move around the scene, becoming part of it.
When performer1 finishes the performing the song Performer2, the director, will thank performer1 and call to the stage, using the phase Next, the next performer.
Repeating the performance:
The next performer will be once more Performer1, who will reappear on the same stage performing the same song. This will be repeated again and again for an hour.
Reassessing the connotation:
This performance is conceived based on the idea of simulacra where a copy of a copy of the original gets made so that the last copy stands alone as its own form, and hence escaping the realm of simulation. The reproduction and reinterpretation of earlier products and works is becoming more prominent in art, which coincides with the amount of reinterpretation and reproduction that is occurring commercially and culturally.
With appropriation and reproduction, Duchamp and Warhol, have set a new platform for interpretation of art as reproduced and mass-produced. Duchamp’s innovation as an artist lying in the gesture of selecting the urinal as an art piece and displaying it in an artistic context, questioning the originality and authenticity of the artistic object. At nearly every level of his work, Warhol challenged and parodied the fantasy of artistic production as an original and unmediated expression. Warhol toyed with social anxieties about reproduction but he refused to set himself up as master or originator. He dispelled the mystique of artistry and genius by comparing artistic and industrial production.
Biography: Loucas Ioannou & Elena Kotasvili
Nationality: Cypriot (EU)
E-mail: i.loucas@gmail.com
Education
- Oct 2008 : MA Space Strategies, Berlin Weißensee School of Art and Design
- Sep 2004- Jun 2007: BA Honours Fine Art, London Middlesex University.
- Sep 2002- Jul 2004: Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Studio 108 School of Art and Design. Lemesos-Cyprus (Zypern)
Exhibitions
- July 2009: No Evidence-performance- Gallery Artacker Berlin, Mitte.
- May 2009: Angelica Bertolucci –OPA at Bios (Performance Festival), Athens Art Athina-Bios
- May 2009: Vorübergehende Denkmäler -Group Exhibition at Atelier Maren Strack, Berlin.
- June 2008: Logomachia-performance- Artconcept Tedentious Art Festival, Saint Petersburg- Russia.
- Sep 2007: Group Exhibition- ´´Lemesos National Bibliotheca´´ (Exhibition Space).
- May 2007: Session 1-performance- ´´Truman Brewery´´, Bricklane- London.
- Dec 2007: Group Exhibition-Byam Shaw School of Art Central Saint Martin London
- Sep 2007: Wall Art- Performance in ´´P´´, Lemesos- Cyprus.
- Nov 2006: Group Exhibition in the Lemesos National Bibliotheca (Exhibition Space).
- Jul 2005: Group Exhibition- Opus Gallery Nicosia- Cyprus.
- Dec 2004: Group Exhibition- ´´P´´, Lemesos- Cyprus.
Publication- Internet Blocks
- Batterie Free Press Magazine, June 2009, Athens (article for the Performance at BIOS, Angelica Bertolucci)
- Artconcept Tedentious Art Festival, Saint Petersburg- Russia (http://artconcept.narod.ru)
- 2007 Degrees An Art Magazine- UK (www.a-n.co.uk)
- the-artist.org- Louel -Loucas Ioannou and Elena Kotasvili- (www.the-artists.org)
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