ALEX CECCHETTI, Belladonna, 2016 Video and live performance, with Rebecca Glover, Matt Harding, Cathy Heller Jones and Ivo Krankowski.
Belladonna is a film-based performance with singers, foley artists and narration. It originates in Alex Cecchetti’s sitespecific performance, Walking Backwards, presented at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 2013, in which the artist led the audience along a walk through a garden, narrating stories and poems. Walking backwards, plants and flowers appear into one’s field of vision unexpectedly, almost as though they grew out of the body that beholds them, or the voice that evokes them. While Walking Backwards is intended as a solitary experience – in the intimate exchange between a guide and their listener, Belladonna re-conceives the piece as a collective visionary journey.
The Serpentine Galleries’ General Ecology project’s evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism – PLANTSEX
The evening marked the launch of a special, co-edited issue of MAL journal, also titled PLANTSEX.
More on General Ecology: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/general-ecology
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