Liliths Rain

During the first weekend of July there will be a different kind of rain in The Contemporary Dance Centre The Place, where Liliana Garcia’s MA performance piece Lilith’s Rain-  a media installation-performance -will be exhibited on Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July at 8.15 pm. This poetical piece recreates the myth of Lilith, the woman before Eve who is condemned as a demon because she refuses to accept submissiveness to Adam and his Patriarchal God. Lilith’s Rain is the fiction of her returning now, in the form of a phosphorescent character to put things right again. This work created by Liliana Garcia and performed by Laura Gubbins and Chiara D’Anna and Steve Mason (Sound Designer) and Scott Robinson (visuals) combines physical theatre, animation, kinetic poetry, live music and a compelling intimate soundtrack in a piece that challenges conventional cognition and the status of women in society. Entrance is free, (Studio 2).

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the visual artist as a cultural agent

In Chapter 5- Artist As Theorist from Graeme Sullivan’s 2005 book Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts.

The author starts by describing the artist’s work such as being expansive, creative and critical. He then subdivides the practice (concerning knowledge production) in Making in Systems, when related to structure and skills, Making in Communities, referring to negotiating and communicating meaning, and Making in Culture, when it focuses on challenging perception and prompting new ways of thinking.
Sullivan explores the expansive potentiality inherent in a digital era concerning these 3 areas, and points out the change that the artist’s role has developed in society. He says ¨The image of the artist as creator, critic, theorist, teacher, activist, archivist partly captures the range of art practice today¨, as he emphasizes the many functions of the visual artist in contemporary culture. And it is precisely this point that makes the text valuable to me, because it stands on the believe that artists (and their reflective path), when meeting their personal view with the public voice, can bring insight to the way human beings understand and deal with the world. Thus, it seems to me a result of adaptation, that in the current visual environment, the role of the visual artist has shifted, and has also become more that of the role of a cultural agent.

LiLITH`S EVOLUTION

Because my practice is founded in poetry, I have come a long way dealing with images (as metaphors), but it was not until a couple of years ago (maybe sensing the need to communicate), that I decided to materialize them, and so have shifted into the visual arts to continue my practice. In this way, the need of Making in Communities has influenced my Making in System practice. As for Making in Culture, I believe that it is in the visual and textual content of my play, where I intend to exhort the audience: LiLITH’S TRIAL is a play about otherness and what it offers (hopefully) is a new ‘apprehension’ to the way we articulate with reality.

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