[sainted-places]

▪️Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany.▪️

[geimfar]

Ana Mendieta - “Silueta” Series

The “Siluetas” comprise more than 200 earth-body works that saw the artist burn, carve, and mold her silhouette into the landscapes of Iowa and Mexico. The sculptures made tangible Mendieta’s belief of the earth as goddess, rooted in Afro-Cuban Santería and the indigenous Taíno practices of her homeland.

“It is a way of reclaiming my roots and becoming one with nature.”

[the-watcher-in-the-sky]

Congregation of the damned

Dream in ether

[artofthegods]

Tibetan Citipati mask depicting Mahākāla. The skull mask of Citipati is a reminder of the impermanence of life and the eternal cycle of life and death.

[rivesveronique]

Photograph of a dance recording by Franz Löwy at the “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris in 1925

[roses--and--rue]

Alexander McQueen, finale dress from The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, A/W 08-09.

[disease]

“VAGINA PAINTING” @ PERPETUAL FLUXFEST SHIGEKO KUBOTA 久保田 成子 // NYC, 1965 [gelatin silver print | 14 x 14″]

[the-velveteen-diaries-blog]

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” – Michael Faudet

[ymutate]

Bronze Etruscan applique with mermaid head (4th Century BC)

National Archaeological Museum of Salerno, Italy.

Credit: @Dr_TheHistories

[thinkingimages]

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

1990 / 89 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood

Min Tanaka and Maijuku; Yoko Ashikawa and Hakutobo; Akaji Maro and Dai Rakuda Kan; Kazuo Ohno; Isamu Ohsuka and Byakko-sha; Natsu Nakajima and Muteki-sha; Sankaijuku; and Tatsumi Hijikata.

Butoh, a unique theater of improvisation, places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. A Dionysian dance of nudity, eroticism, and sexuality, Butoh’s scale of expression ranges from meditative tenderness to excessive grotesqueness. Through a recalling of the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, and use of music and masks Butoh is able to incorporate aspects of traditional theater into its extreme performances. An alliance of tradition and rebellion, Butoh is one of the most fascinating underground dance movements. Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies.

[1000sassa1000]

Brothers in tub, 2009

photo by Hanne van der Woude

[cotralzrust]

[hexentanz]

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[henriksson]

[iranipapi]