Elena Kovylina independent artist

The Appearance of # to the People

Performance, film – Exhibition MANSON 1969, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/


curated by Frank Barth and Dirck Moellmann




Charles Manson would apply a religious archetype, the one of Jesus Christ when he built up his personal mythology. He showed up a stereotype the others easily perceived and reacted to. In my performance I appear to the public as somewhat a Prophet hardly associated to any exact religion or cult, but still recognizable...

Space was in semidarkness. I appeared on stage half-naked. My face has been disguised as if I were a man with a natural black beard, which paradoxically followed a female body nude.
During the following fifteen minutes I have been staring at the public in front of me in silence, significantly. In the end, I raised up my hands giving a blessing to everyone attending. After that, I jumped down from the stage like a rock star.


Camera:
Martin Kreyssig
Assistence Camera :
Sascha Seeger-Kunth
Christian Schutlze
Postproduction:

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© Elena Kovylina, 2003-2008