EARLY PERFORMANCES
C'est un miracle qu'il soit devenu un homme comme les autres! Quand il etait jeune il se maquillait et s'habillait en fille...

DESCRIPTION:
Leni riefenstahl meets Jack smith!
The space with the public gets suddenly darkend and 2 perfomers dressed up as terrorists jump in. They hold each a S-8 projectors in the hand and point the projections onto the clothes and faces of the public. The projected images show a young man dressed in a girl's dress dancing, jumping, crawling, falling into the same space as the public and performers are now.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Filmperformance: Super-8, 2 S-8 projectors handheld, long powerleeds, 2 performers, app. 10 min.,1995
Production: KunstenfestivaldesArts 1995 - Performed at Plateau, Brussels
(The images shown above are from one of the films).

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MAIDENSPEECH: "I am a female video artist".

DESCRIPTION:
This performance was part of a theatre piece. The story was set in a time where all female artists (at least 1 of each discipline) were condemned to be museum pieces. The female video maker is standing behind a big screen. The video camera is turned on and the video artists starts to speak about her past artist's life and get's completely turned on by he the images of her own body, recorded live by herself and projected big on the screen in front of her. Performance ends when the the "guard" pulls out the plug.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Videoperformance, video camera, video projector , 1 big projection screen,1 performer, app. 10 min. 1996
Production: Beursschouwburg, Kunsten Festivaldes Arts 1996 - Performed at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels

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