Installation of views of “Beauty as a Task- declining recurrent themes in my work.
Beauty as a Task - declining recurrent themes
Song, 2015
5 minutes duration performance
Digital print on canson cotton paper, 180gm and 200x200 cm wooden structure, single channel sound piece on loop 3.04 minutes duration
Elthorne Studios, London
Recorded vocals by Joseph Evans, Christos Loupis, Aries Maleas and Christina Shellag Mongelli
It is a song that was composed by adapting the melody of China Nights, a song performed in 1938 by Japanese singer Watabanabe Hamako. – Shina No Yoru, and text I written about beauty and the relationship between the audience and the work.
I re-assembled the text into a sort of pop-lyrical text, that reflects on love, beauty, identity, that is messy
and changing.
I was interested in the historical controversy concerning the identity of the original performer, to which seems
to be multiple performers, generating their hybrid performance styles in ironies, contradictions, and complexities.
At this time, entertainers’ performances were being shaped or negotiated in contact with different audiences and expectations, whilst female entertainers attempted to navigate the acceptable ground of performances and womanhood in the constantly changing political and ideological environment.
