Barbara Le Béguec Friedman
PERFOMRANCE
"The aim of my work is to disrupt the comfort of the known and the recognised.
I create spaces, moments and actions that allow the viewer or participant to blur the boundaries of what is defined."
I wish you Feb 2022, espace Zero, Perpignan, France.
SITE : FAULT LINES group performances, sept. 2022, Upper Culand Pit, Burham, UK.
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/
performance, feb. 2021 Art Residency «Prendre le Temps», Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France. Still from Thomas Andro video
performance, feb. 2021 Art Residency «Prendre le Temps», Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France. Still from Thomas Andro video
performance, feb. 2021 Art Residency «Prendre le Temps», Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France. Photo @Barbara LB Friedman
performance, feb. 2021 Art Residency «Prendre le Temps», Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France. Still from Thomas Andro video
Photo @Beate Linne
Verticale performance, feb.2021, Espace O25rjj, Loupian, France.
Time does not belong to us…
By its very nature, it flows by,
slipping through our fingers
like sand.
Except, perhaps,
when we take it.
A thread, a nail, a 14kg bag of salt.
Conversation with dead bees, Action for the camera, May 2021, Ponteilla, France.
The Way We Walk performance, 5th of June 2021, X Performance Art Festival in Tychy, Poland.
Two chairs,
a kitchen timer,
a chess set,
my father's shoes
and a few litres of ashes.
Photo @Beate Linne
Présentoir à panier performance, april 2021 for I WE ACT (Pascale Ciapp initiative) , Ponteilla, France.
Two chairs,
a kitchen timer,
a chess set,
my father's shoes
and a few litres of ashes.
Absence performance for the camera, 10th oct. 2021, Ponteilla, France.
38,4kg of something else...
work in progress.
21,6kg missing
Equinox - Day of Public Action: for Freedom and Democracy Sept 2020, Lviv, Ukraine.
International event of performance art in public space.
Open performance sessions :
In one space, different artists work in parallel,
without a previously agreed joint script.
The took place in Zalizna Voda park near Ternopilska street.
With Yaryna Shumska, Yuriy Ivancyk, Gabriela Darenska, Andriy Helytovych
Photo @Beate Linne
Boite 2020 Aug - 6th edition of the International Performance Festival CORPOREA, Zacatecas, Mexique (online).
Photo @Beate Linne
Ground performance, 11th of Nov 2020, Lviv, Ukraine,
Ukrainian people's shoes...
The video of the performance was part of 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"