Afghan Hound

Venice Art Biennale Lilibeth Cuenca Art June 2011

‘Afghan Hound’ was a performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen shown at the Venice Art Biennale 2011. The performance took place on a platform built on the Danish Pavilion ground in the arena of the Art Biennale. The costume in the show has a significant part in the story, as it is made of human hair and contributes to four different roles, as the artist is transformed from a woman in a burqa, to a man, a lady-boy and a woman again.

The human hair material used for the burqa in ‘Afghan Hound’ comes from a desire to challenge the expression / use of organic matter. An added dimension is the sale of human hair through temples in India where pure believers have offered their hair as a prayer for richer life, in fact, the hair is sold to the hair-extension industry in richer countries. In the performance, we don’t want to control what associations the audience will have, when they view the costume, such information adds just another layer of significance to the performance.

Costume design and Digital video: Lise Klitten

Music: Anders Christophersen Still Photo: Anders Sune Berg  Afghan Hound Performance: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Udstilling

Kostume

Afghan Hound. Lilibeth Cuenca

Lise Klitten

Lise Klitten arbejder med Performancekunst, der reflekter samtiden. Klitten arbejder med textil og rumudtryk, i scenografi og kostumedesign, hvor værkernes udtryk ofte er ganske markante, simple og overraskende, ved hendes utraditionelle valg af materialer og enkle løsninger.

Parallelt hermed arbejder Lise Klitten med dokumenterende poetiske videoværker og installationer, hvorfra bidder også klippes ind i scenografien i performancekunst værkerne, ligesom hun arbejder med video illustrationen som en visuel dialog over forestillingerne.

I de seneste år har Lise Klitten forfinet sine udtryk og arbejdet stærkt med kostumedesign for udøvende kunstnere som koreografen Anders Christiansen og performance kunstneren Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, som bl.a performede på Venedig Biennalen i 2011, i en gulvlang sort paryk, der overraskende både kan agere burka og vingefang i et sublimt mix af mande- og kvinderoller

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