My First Burial by Nancy Mauro-Flude
medium: installation: dirt, flowers, herbs, single channel video" audio, color. continuous loop 52 min and/ or. Performance 45 min.
The cemetary was my favourite place in the world. There I saw the angels and the dead bed together.
World Premiere. April 25. Performance Lecture at World-Expo-Sition Vienna 2008 LabFactory/ NOMAD THEATRE
Installation at MQ in group exhbition Skin Is Longing For A Cream: On sensitivity in women and art. Curator: Ivana Moncolová (SVK).
May 20 - June 10 2008 Freiraum/quartier21
PRESS TEXT: Performing artist and 'queen' of uncensored data, provides her audience with a sensitive view on the uncanny repetition of 'dead girls' in life, art and literature; with the work 'My First Burial'. - Ivana Moncolová (SVK)
"Sister0, connects in #my first burial" the Shaman Rattle of an exoticised elsewhere with today's technopolitics. Here, Sister0 shows in lines of thought and performance the desire to transcend time and space as patterns of continuity, while the concrete historical fields changes, but she never forgets about the sexual politics immanent to these fields as situated practices. It was hilarious and serious, funny and destructive performance, dealing with questions of life and death as it was encapsulated in Marx reading: 'making the ossified conditions dance by singing them their own melody'".by Fahim Amir in MetaMute Magazine
'My First Burial' [2006] medium: installation. single channel video, audio, color. continuous loop 32 min.
"...These poets shall exist when the age long slavery shall have ended when, she will be able to live by & for herself, when man hitherto having given her freedom, she will be a poet. Women will discover the unknown. Will her word be different from ours? She will discover things that will be strange & unfathomable, repulsive & delicate. We shall take them from her & we shall understand them. "
-Rimbaud.
State and institutional control of bodies, hardware, software, western medicine plants, herbs, has enduring and limiting effects on those who generate life (women), how we experience life itself, but also our ability to understand the formless world of the dead and undead.
I am concerned with ostracised and imperilled bodies of knowledge and am interested in the retrieval and transmission and of them. In the spirt and sentiment of the Beat Generation, in 2003 I went to South Colombia, the Puto-Mayo Region, Foundation de Investigaciones chamanistas to experience ancient practices of plant usage [as software] and how objects, such as the Shaman Rattle rattle and other paraphernalia or talisman [hardware] are related to the rising ubiquity of computational media and platform usage nowadays and the merged realities they bring about with them (for those in the metropoles).
installation view
Performance
Stills from the film;
Before the decent into the ground I was given yopu
Rattle - apart from a musical instrument the feathers take one into the world of visions and it also tracks ssicness in the body
Finally at peace
digging the grave
lying in the grave
here you can see all the different types of flowers that went into the dirt mix that i was covered with