Aqua Permanens
Carlota Berard
2004
Carlota Berard performs a menstrual dance over a piece of cloth (2x2 meter). Berard choreographs the dance to her own musical composition. During the dance, Berard's period drips onto the makeshift canvas, and she traces her movements simultaneously with graphite. The cloth is cut into the small drawings/collages, which are seen at the end of this post. Berard's piece deals with women's work, the woman's body, identity politics, etc. She creates a lasting creation out of the monthly cycle (something that most women can't wait for it to end), something that only lasts for a handful of days.
"Each body substance or fluid has a different texture and a different way or perforating the body. The body pulsates in diverse ways when releasing any substance, by contraction or expansion and with rhythmical or non-rhythmical pulses. The body is full of a pulse, in other words energy or excitement, ready to ooze slowly and outwards a liquid and an intense emotion. The body also oozes when it slowly disappears within a frame of time to allow a metamorphosis, another performance to happen and another existence. There is a pulse within any artistic performance. The pulse not only concerns matter, but also the soul."
Carlota Berard, 2004
The closeness of the spirit,
nowadays a fluent thing to write or tell,
since no distant colour seems to stay.
No flagrant music without spell,
no poison pulse without smell.
Disposition is the key word, the secret.
We had a secret? Tell me if so, again and again!
Slowly and tenderly between distances,
pure and gelid transfuse of blood while breathing instances
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