Barbara Friedman Artist Performance/Action

OUR BODY MEMORY

Our Body Memory, action, 3rd of September 2023, FNAF Altenburg 1964, Prague, Czech Republic.

A table, a blue chair, a yellow chair, a mortar, a glass jar, a useless lipstick, ashes, a scarf, a long dress.

Words I had to say.

And my baby teeth.

Photo @Pascale Ciapp

THE LAUNDRY

The Laundry, action, 26th of August 2023, Sudeten FNAF performance art residency, PERLA, Kyjov, Krásná Lípa, Czech Republic.

A wheelbarrow, a bucket full of clear water, a bucket full of soapy water, six of my clothes and my dark blue dress.

Photo @Yaryna Shumska

Participation à SITE : FAULT LINES

Artistes participants :
Eduardo Cardoso Amato,
Barbara LeBéguec-Friedman,
Kane Stonestreet, Samm Shakleton,
Helen Davison, Selina Bonelli et Ash McNaughton.

Documentation par : Fenia Kotsopoulou et Daz Disley
Édition : Daz Disley et Ash McNaughton Daz Disley et Ash McNaughton

Performances à : Carrière de Dannes, France (12.09.2022) et Upper Culand Pit, Burham, UK (16.09.2022)

Commandée et présentée dans le cadre du festival SALT + EARTH du paysage, du paysage marin et de l'environnement (23 - 25/09/2022) au Block 67, Digital Glassworks, Folkestone, Royaume-Uni.
Soutenu par Kent AONB, Parc naturel régional des caps et marais d'Opale, Folkestone Fringe, et Creative Folkestone.

SITE est cofondé et coanimé par Selina Bonelli, Helen Davison et Ash McNaughton.
https://www.siteperformanceart.org/

Participating Artists :
Eduardo Cardoso Amato,
Barbara LeBéguec-Friedman,
Kane Stonestreet, Samm Shakleton,
Helen Davison, selina bonelli, and Ash McNaughton.

Documentation by: Fenia Kotsopoulou and Daz Disley
Edited by: Daz Disley and Ash McNaughton

Performances at: Carriére de Dannes, France (12.09.2022) and Upper Culand Pit, Burham, UK (16.09.2022)

Commissioned and presented as part of SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Seascape and the Environment (23 - 25/09/2022) at Block 67, Digital Glassworks, Folkestone, UK.
Supported by Kent AONB, Parc naturel régional des caps et marais d'Opale, Folkestone Fringe, and Creative Folkestone.

SITE is co-founded and co-facilitated by selina bonelli, Helen Davison, and Ash McNaughton
https://www.siteperformanceart.org/

THE WAY WE WALKED

The Way We Walk, action, 5th of June 2021, X Performance Art Festival in Tychy, Poland.

Two chairs, a chess set, my father's shoes and a few litres of ashes.

PRÉSENTOIR À PANIER

Présentoir à Paniers, performance d'art action, 11 avril 2021, épicerie "Chez Camille, Ponteilla.

Sur l'initiative de l'artiste Pascale Ciapp, nous étions plusieurs artistes à intervenir ce jour, à proximité des lieux considérés "essentiels" dans nos communes respectives.

(Merci à Jackie et à l'épicerie "Chez Camille" pour leur accueil)

VERTICALE

Verticale, action, 15min, Espace o25rjj, Loupian.

Verticale, trace de l'action, Espace o25rjj, Loupian.

Verticale, action, 15min, Espace o25rjj, Loupian.

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Verticale, action, 15min, 21 février 2021.

Lors de la rencontre de fin de résidence Prendre le Temps à l'Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France.

Un fil, un clou, un sac de 14kg de sel.

Pour voir des extraits vidéos de l'action : cliquez ici

Participation à FEM_2020

To Lesley...

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Performance 'Duet 8' performed by Anet van de Elzen and Barbara Le Béguec Friedman dedicated to Lesley Yendell...

(Click on the image to access the video)

FEM_20 was held from the 28th & 29th December 2020, adapting to the current COVID19 situation by adopting an online format. We met virtually on Zoom, in order to make a series of Performance Duets. These duets form part of our ongoing group research into inter-connectedness and group experiments on synchronicity.

GROUND

Ground Performance, 10 min. 11th of Nov 2020, Lviv, Ukraine. ©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

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Ground

Performance, 10 min.

11th of Nov 2020, Lviv, Ukraine.

Ukrainian people's shoes...

Action proposed during the First International Triennial of Performance DEFORMES (Chile) in response to the given theme "The Virtuality of the Body: appear and disappear in times of War"

RIEN

Rien Performance 1h50min, 9 oct. 2020 Participation to the Laboratorium art project, Ivan Franko Museum, Lviv, Ukraine. ©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

Photo Yaryna Shumska ©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

Rien Performance 1h50min, 9 oct. 2020 Participation to the Laboratorium art project, Ivan Franko Museum, Lviv, Ukraine. ©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

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Rien

Performance 1h50min, 9 oct. 2020

Participation to the Laboratorium art project, Ivan Franko Museum, Lviv, Ukraine.

A few words borrowed from the poem "Опівніч. Глухо. Зимно. Вітер виє..." by Ivan Franko, water and a brush. On the paved ground surrounding the house, I write with water the sentence: '' Ні думка, ні чуття, ні біль - ніщо '' (No thought, no feeling, no pain - nothing). On my knees, I move with my water container.

BOITE

©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

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Boîte

Video-performance August 2020

Participation to the 6th edition of the International Performance Festival CORPOREA, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Experimenting with a restricted space and dialoguing with a certain form of absence. Living confined and feeling "cramped" is not new for many of us... through this action I wanted to experience the idea of the box in a different way...

TALKING-ABOUT-NOTHING

©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

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TALKING-ABOUT-NOTHING

Video-performance Jul. 2020

In the framework of the exhibition LA NOTHING A statement, at HOTEL DADA base de arte correo y poesia visual, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

HE CAN'T DANCE

©Barbara Le Béguec Friedman

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He Can't Dance

Video-performance March 2020

Participation to the alternative open session Equinox to Equinox in confinement time...

CRASHED PARADAJZ

Photo@IMAF

Crashed Paradajz Performance Sept. 2019 IMAF 2019, Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad.

Photo@Susanna Pruna

Crashed Paradajz Performance Sept. 2019 IMAF 2019, Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad.

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Crashed Paradajz Performance Sept. 2019 IMAF 2019, Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad.

Photo@IMAF

Crashed Paradajz Performance Sept. 2019 IMAF 2019, Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad.

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Crashed Paradajz

Performance Sept. 2019

IMAF 2019, Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad.

A tomato, a fishtail and chicken legs. The word for tomato in Serbian is "paradajz" which comes from the word paradise. The song of Juliette Greco "A small fish, a small bird" is played at the end of the action. This song is a song from my childhood, about a love story between a fish and a bird living in two differents worlds.

REFUGE

Photo@Susanna Pruna

Refuge Performance Sept. 2019 IMAF 2019, Former Youth CenterOdžaci (Serbia) 5 black and white photo printing of Refugees fleeing the war, crossing the Mediterranean Sea. 20 Anthem of Europe French lyrics (Georges Picard version) copies placed close to each person present in the room.

Photo@Dimple B Shah

Photo@Petar Dukić

Photo@Susanna Pruna

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Refuge

Performance Sept. 2019

IMAF 2019, Former Youth CenterOdžaci (Serbia)

5 black and white photo printing of Refugees fleeing the war, crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

20 Anthem of Europe French lyrics (Georges Picard version) copies placed close to each person present in the room.

LOOKING FOR YOU

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Looking For You

Action Sept. 2019

Budapest (Hungary)

A stone.

WITH SYPORCA

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Collaborations with Syporca Whandal

13th of Sept. 2019,

MERSZ KLUB,Budapest (Hungary).

BEAT

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Beat

Action Jan. 2017

Ponteilla (France)

Beat : 'verb. strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, usually with an implement such as a club or whip. noun. a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry. "the glissando begins on the second beat" adjective. completely exhausted. "I'm dead beat"

FACING WALLS