by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Carlos Motta
<<live performance version>> (director, performer) 2022, 20 min. &
<<Experimental video short film version>> (director, performer, producer) 2022, 16 min.
In Mourning Stage a series of drawings are used as a performance score. These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons there are feminized characters that suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. Performer Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.
En Mourning Stage una serie de dibujos son utilizados como una partitura de actuación. Estas imágenes retratan diferentes representaciones del diablo en el infierno. Entre estos demonios hay personajes feminizados que sugieren las perversiones sexuales tipificadas por el imaginario católico. La performer Paetau interpreta y responde a los dibujos utilizando su cuerpo y sus expresiones faciales en una performance ritualista, en la que el cuerpo, fetichizado y colonizado por la moral, se lamenta.
A live performance / video by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Carlos Motta
Performed by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Director of Photography: Lola Gómez Castello
Original music: Isabel González Toro
Sound mix: Ruben Valdes
Soundtrack Assistant: JOSÉ MARULANDA
Visual Design (VFX - video version): Fernando Gregório
Live Programming (VFX - live version): Olivia Jacks
Second Camera: CARLOS ANDRÉS LÓPEZ
Makeup: MARÍA FERNANDA CEPEDA
Titles Design: LAURYN SIEGEL
Colorist: MARTIN BACKHAUS
Production Director: PAOLA ANDREA PÉREZ NIETO
Production Coordinator: CATALINA PATARROYO VELÁSQUEZ
Distribution: LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA
Location: Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
Co-produced by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and Goethe-Institute Bogotá
with support from the XI Berlin Biennale.
Special thanks to
Alejandra Sarria, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
2022
LIVE VERSION - Haus der Kulturen der Welt
