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BuNiKa participated in RED SUNDAY : LIVE ART at Democracy Monument
August 1st , 2010
This is part of Art for The Dead, remembering people who died during military crackdown in Bangkok on April 10 and May 19, 2010 in which more than 90 civilians dead (so far) and up to 2.000 wounded. This particular event took place at Democracy Monument on August 1st, 2010. It's also called Red Sunday. Viewers became participants and part of performance.
more photographs of Art at the Monument series
Art at the Monument (1) (March - April 2010)
and
Art at the Monument (2) (August 1st, 2010)
This stunning art project at Toronto's Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival featured a series of live dancers in a giant tank, that would fill and drain with water as they tried to complete daily, mundane tasks. Imagine you were just going about your day... then boom, water gushes in, because all of the polar ice caps have melted! A very poignant piece on climate change.
"The Let Go" is an immersive, participatory art installation at the Park Avenue Armory by artist Nick Cave. The huge tinsel curtains curve and move through the space along with the dancers (both performers and audience members). These photos were taken during the day time hours there is a full performance in the evening with sound suit costumes and guest singers.
At the Hirshhorn (10/29/2016). The work features a single, sequin-clad woman strumming an E-minor chord endlessly, rotating on a pedestal in a gold-tinseled room, a performance that walks a characteristic line between kitsch and earnest commentary on feminine objectification. A rotating cast of Washington-area musicians will play the "Woman."
I used to sub in one of the bands that played at The Lost Spirits Distillery last year. It’s a very cool place, but you can’t take any photos other than your cell phone. I always wished that I could’ve taken 1 of my DSLR cameras and a fast lens. There were a lot of possibilities for some wonderful photos!!
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Supplique (2021) – Performance d’Amélia Sampaio
Une prière pour la liberté.
Cette performance évoque la liberté non comme un droit individuel, mais comme une expérience collective, fragile, traversée de tensions et de résistances. Elle appelle également à l'altérité comme fondement de toute construction commune. Dans une posture suspendue, le corps interroge le pouvoir, la mémoire, et la possibilité d’un souffle partagé.
Photographies : © Philippe Michelon
👉 Voir la série complète : ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/suppliques-2021/
🎥 Vidéos associées : www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZoHUKdkDo
ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/suppliques-a-contre-jour/
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Supplique (2021) – Performance by Amélia Sampaio
A prayer for freedom.
This performance addresses freedom not as an individual right, but as a collective experience, fragile, shaped by tension and resistance. It also calls for alterity as a foundation of any shared construction. In a suspended posture, the body questions power, memory, and the possibility of a shared breath.
Photos: © Philippe Michelon
👉 See the full series: ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/suppliques-2021/
🎥 Related videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZoHUKdkDo
ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/suppliques-a-contre-jour/
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Supplique (2021) – Performance de Amélia Sampaio
Uma prece pela liberdade.
Esta performance aborda a liberdade não como um direito individual, mas como uma experiência coletiva, frágil, atravessada por tensões e resistências. Ela também convoca a alteridade como base de toda construção partilhada. Em uma postura suspensa, o corpo questiona o poder, a memória e a possibilidade de um sopro comum.
Fotografias: © Philippe Michelon
👉 Ver a série completa: ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/suppliques-2021/
🎥 Vídeos relacionados: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZoHUKdkDo
This photograph captures a festive street performance featuring two performers dressed in black outfits adorned with reflective or metallic patterns. One performer is holding a flaming torch, indicating a fire performance. The background includes a sign that reads "oh! CHRISTMAS TREE" and "only tainmen," likely referring to "entertainment." There are also blurred figures and a horse-drawn carriage, suggesting a holiday setting. The scene takes place outdoors, likely in the evening or night, given the dim lighting and presence of streetlights.
The combination of the performers, the fire element, and the festive decorations creates a dynamic and captivating image that showcases the artistry and excitement of holiday street performances.
"Larmes de Coton" (Tears of Cotton) is a performance by artist Amélia Sampaio that explores the haunting legacy of colonial exploitation in the Americas. For many Afro-descendants, cotton—like coffee or sugarcane—is not just a plant, but a painful symbol of forced labor and enslavement.
In this work, the artist stages a silent ritual of remembrance and resistance, where each gesture resonates with ancestral memory. The white softness of cotton contrasts sharply with the violence of its history, evoking both mourning and resilience.
The full series can be viewed here:
👉 ameliasampaio.com/portfolio/larmes-de-coton-lagrimas-de-a...
"The Let Go" is an immersive, participatory art installation at the Park Avenue Armory by artist Nick Cave. The huge tinsel curtains curve and move through the space along with the dancers (both performers and audience members). These photos were taken during the day time hours there is a full performance in the evening with sound suit costumes and guest singers.
Artist Tsedaye Makonnen's performance art "Astral Sea" The Need for Collective Refuge" at the Met Museum
From the Met Museum's website "Ethiopian-American multidisciplinary artist Tsedaye Makonnen, whose Astral Sea textiles are displayed as part of The Met's Africa & Byzantium exhibition, activates the textiles with The Need for Collective Refuge, a new site-specific performance that journeys through the history of the Byzantine Era's African diaspora. Join us for this unique processional meditation on resilience, memory and migration, which merges spiritual, ceremonial, and performative elements of the Astral Sea series and explores the power of collective action and the potential for a better future."
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I used to sub in one of the bands that played at The Lost Spirits Distillery last year. It’s a very cool place, but you can’t take any photos other than your cell phone. I always wished that I could’ve taken 1 of my DSLR cameras and a fast lens. There were a lot of possibilities for some wonderful photos!!
Last Saturday, we played 'City,' which is an activity that literally involves everyone involved in Elsewhere, and whoever else shows up to play. Essentially, you dress up in a wacky outfit of your choice, assume an identity (derived largely from the clothing you're wearing), and interact with each other. And you drink (a lot, if you're nervous -- like I was).
This was a stretch for me, but after a couple whiskeys I got into it. As into it as a first-timer could get, I imagine. I did, however, get some amazing photos.
I couldn't help but think of Charly Aguirre and the photos we made earlier this year when the performance began this night. It did in fact include a performer with a hula hoop on fire. This was my favorite of the long exposures I attempted while sitting nearby the performance.
400 ISO, f/8, 0.5 seconds, handheld. Getting a long exposure of a performance includes a fair amount of luck getting the movement to create something interesting, especially when handheld. Sometimes you just do the best you can, shoot a bunch of frames and see what you get.
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Otis Houston Jr. (born 1954 in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.) is a New York based artist, known for installing and performing his work in public Houston sometimes presents his work as Black Cherokee.
Pendant sa performance "KAOS IN FURS" avec Mori Tuerie, au vernissage de l'exposition Dans-Dehors d'oeuvres d'Isa Kaos et Dom Garcia à la Cantine de la Cigale 14/03/2018.
Isa Kaos www.facebook.com/Hautepointure-by-Isa-Kaos-143106045726669/
Dom Garcia www.domgarcia.com/
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