TARANTA
Performance AV
[noise / CRT TV], 15 mn
Video dancers:
Vivian Bausch, Christa Wall
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Tarantel, Vivian Bausch
A re-enactment of the dizzily rhythmic italian ritual, Taranta, with cathartic noise and distortions.
The hysterical victims of a spider bite would dance until the poison gets out of their body. The performance brings a gender struggle up to the present: the issue of men domination over women bodies and mind, leading to mental illness and especially somatization disorder.
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