Exercise in Rational Irrationality Or A Study on the Body Violent
Atelier, PACT April 21, 2017 -- Installation and Performance -- Frances Chiaverini and HOOD
“What is the most irrational practice or habit you’ve developed in your daily life?”
The dancer asks this question with their presence while the audience is invited to lay down and feel the vibrations of the soundscape of doom. I lot of bad stuff happened when Frances made this. Her body is forever changed. The work begs the question, can I make you feel what I feel?
diarrhEa, anXiEty, stRess, heart attaCk, a swollen appendIx, inflammation, depreSsion, adrEnal over-stImulatioN through coffee dRinking, lifting weights, vomiting, holding your breATh, surgIcal bOdy augmeNtAtion, gynecologicaL appoIntments, blood tests, Samantha Cohn, who jumped out of a window on 72nd St. in Manhattan. What happened to heR body? What weRe the micro situATIONs between her bones, veins, and tissues? A bacteriAL infection, cancer, transplants: organs, joInTs, and otherwise; united airlines, bitch, WSHH fights, oppressive song lYrics/sick beats, punching, hair-pulling, ass slapping, body slam, finger-pointing, heart-break
photo: Katja Cheraneva by Jana Mila Lippitz