ROTULUS

 Rotulus was performed for Drafting on 21st March 2015 at Baltic 39, Newcastle.

Drafting brought together 18 Artists to investigate drawing through performance.

Photographs by Nathan Walker and Denys Blacker.

My body is a book overflowing with stories...

My body is a book overflowing with stories… by Joana Cifre Cerdà  is an intimate durational performance that can be experienced either on screen or directly on a one to one basis.

The work explores emotional barriers raised for protection and layers created by lived experience.

This piece was performed as part of NewVolutions Festival at LPAC, Lincoln on 25th January 2014.

Boidae (sketch) by Kate Buckley is a video piece in its own right and is an edited version of the documentation of this performance

Flor d'Ametler (sketch) by Kate Buckley is a video piece in its own right  and is an edited version of the documentation of this performace.

Vase

 Vase is a performance by Joana Cifre Cerda  in response to the painting The flagellation of Saint Barbara by Master of the Vienna Schottenstift. The piece was commissioned by The Collection Museum for the exhibition Masterstrokes: Great Paintings from York Art Gallery.

Vase aims to draw attention to issues of objectification and to question society's changes in the choices available to women in the past and the present.

Performance dates and times:
May 24th: 19.00-20.00
June 14th: 13.00-14.00
July  13th: 13.00-14.00
August 13th: 13.00-14.00
August 26th:  13.00-14.00

Photography by Marina Andrews-Cifre

A.S

Art is not a private nightmare, not even a private dream; it is a shared human connection that traces the possibilities of past and future in the whorl of now✵.

Here I WRITE

              a

few  key words 

 in  

     terms of how

                         I      SEE

             

        and                               MAKE art  :

                                                                                                                                                                   

                                          Beingthinkinglookingdiggingintrospectinglearningunderstanding

living.

        Dialogue,viewers,others,intimacy,questions.

                                                                              Baggage,knowledge,experience,

differentereadings,

multiplicity. 

                  Emotions, identity, sexuality, social norms, live art, my body, collaboration, intuition…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..UNEXPECTED,VISCERAL<ENCOUNTER>

     

                                           

✵Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects. Essays on Ecstasy and Effontery. (London: Vintage 1996). Pg. 117.

Huaca By Dug

‘Huaca’ is the Peruvian term for all that is sacred and also refers to one who has the ability to locate buried, sacred treasure.

The notion of a sanctified activity, object or place tends to be at odds with contemporary culture; practices set apart from everyday reality may be viewed with suspicion, however the need for an individual to embark on periods of withdrawal and reflection is universal and requires no script to guide it.

Evolving from the work ‘Cuckoon’ shown at How Soon Is Now in May, "Huaca" has been developed as a site-specific piece for The Collection.  Utilising space that is usually hidden from view to the visiting public,  it draws on the sense of the place as a location for digging beneath the surface, uncovering fragments of our past in order to shed light on our present.

http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/?/exhibitions-and-events/view/huaca-by-dug

AUS.CUL.TA.TION

Aus.cul.ta.tion. This piece was created for Compass at Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding beaconartproject.org/projects/compass-dates/.

The Performance event was curated by Amanda Coogan, http://www.amandacoogan.com/

 The dictionary definition of the word AUS.CUL.TA.TION defines it in general terms as the act of listening and in a medical context the use of a stethoscope to monitor sounds within the body. Joana Cifre-Cerda listens to her own body with a stethoscope. She is the only one who can hear the sounds from within whilst the viewer witnesses the time and care taken to perform this intimate act. We are reminded that taking time and space to listen to one's own body and needs is not an easy task and requires strength.

Embalspicken

Embalspicken is a performace created and performed by Laura Dodgson and Joana Cifre Cerda.This work explores issues of love, power, life and death. It was performed for the Opening show of Crocodiles with a Second Skin Thrash curated by Andrew Bracey and Kate Buckley at Over and Out, Milton Lane. Lincoln.