
Lights Out!
Live Performance and Installation at Kunstraum NOE, Vienna 2007.

Lights Out! by the Brazilian artist Roberta Lima asks significant questions concerning the medium of live performance, be it about the relation between artist and spectator, movement, perception, and transmission. What happens between performing artist and the audience? Which energies and powers are unleashed? What Lima examines in her performance –next to questions of body, identity, gender and shifting borders–are the areas of tension and power that arise between objects, participant and spectator and how they affect each other. Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein


Credits The Construction of the Dress: Camera: Roberta Lima Editing: Roberta Lima Photography: Ana Paula Franco and Roberta Lima Portraits: Roberta Lima assisted by Ana Paula Franco Production Assistant: Ana Paula Franco Dress designed in collaboration with Danijel Radic The Transformation and Destruction of the Dress: Camera: Caroline Heider and Reza Tavakoli Editing: Roberta Lima Light: Claus Zweythurm Production Assistant: Ulrike Köppinger Piercing: Thorsten Sekira Installation: Roberta Lima Special thanks to: Jorg Pacher, Melissa Lumbroso, and Klaus Rencher. Very special thanks to: My team and everyone who worked with me in this project.
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