EMERGING 2020 PERFORMANCE & LAND ART
#EMERGING This series is a collaborative project between performance artist @vittoriacolonnastudio and fine art photographer @danielholfeld.
The work is a semiotic response to the lockdown restrictions imposed during the Covid 19 pandemic and presents a transformative narrative with variables of body and movement, light and space. The artists strive to produce pieces that are potent and affecting, posing multiple questions rather than providing a single answer.
Their combined practice is a meditation on the nomadic experience of “being” and taps in to the unconscious, juxtaposed against serene and ephemeral settings to experiment with the contrasting elements of inclusion and exclusion, real and unreal, settled and nomadic.
Using a shroud of dark navy fabric as a metaphor for the collectively shared lockdown experience, the face of the female figure is not often visible. It is also unclear whether what we see is a frozen moment from an unfolding series of events, waiting to be awakened from a long sleep or if the figure balances on a thin line between the fragile and destructive; the playful and the tragic. Body parts rather than a whole figure slowly emerge to reveal or give birth to a creature with its own life and will.
MIRROR MASK - COSMIC CLOWNING
Mirror Mask Performances 2016-2018
Husar Fine Art Beverly Hills 2018- European Embassies Renunion, LA 2018- Lightning in a Bottle 2017- Dirty Laundry, Hollywood Nights 2017- Swiss Embassy, Beverly Hills 2016- Venice Art Walk, California 2016- Neuta Museum Silverlake 2016- Zerodown, Inglewood 2016- © VittoriaColonna2020
Mirror Mask - Cosmic Clowning in Morocco 2020
© VittoriaColonna2020
Princess Hula (a scared Kachina Doll) & Mirror Mask splash colour Hawaii 2021
Mirror Mask in Buenos Aries, Argentina 2020.
© VittoriaColonna2020
IRIDESCENCE: EVA SERPENTA
A Mermaid Tribe
COLLABORATIONS
COSMIC CLOWNING - POMPUCCIOS - BODY ART
The M&V Experience Kyoto Japan 2015
Filmed in the Gallery Tomo,Kyoto,Japan; two artists make living art.
Humans existence is only but a dot on the canvas, a moment in time, a breath, a memory, a mark. Delving into the meaning of their existence, two artists Miki Yokoyama (Japan) and Vittoria Colonna (Italy & Ireland) will collaborate in an experimental performance art piece where both women will become each others living self portraits. These two women will mould into each other, becoming a living and working installation; The M&V experience... where the inside is revealed to the outside. The performance will consist of the artists painting each other in real time, using ink, paint, wool, yarn, elaborate costumes, voice and pom poms.
Guest Performance by Butoh artist Iori Kinki. Copyright © 2016 The M&V Experience
SIRENS Teaser 2014 Performance Art - Initiation An original performance art piece that explored the powers of Dreams. Written & Directed by Vittoria Colonna Produced byJeremy Mora
Starring Stephen Muzzonigro, Rebekah Hillebrand, Ester Hillebrand, Melanie Malia, Jordan Wins and Vittoria Colonna
IDENTITIES
Written, Directed & Co Produced by Vittoria Colonna © Underground Films 2008
The performance art pieces from the film were selected by the Italian Cultural Minster as part of the Worldwide Italian Pavilion & 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2011.
Identities is a sensitive and compelling documentary which explores the multicoloured, multicultural transgender community in Ireland. Five personal stories give shape to the different but parallel worlds of Transvestism, Transsexualism, Drag, Sexual identity, and Gender Dysphoria.
Intimate observational footage introduces us to the world of each character. Documented in a series of revealing black and white interviews, each narrative is preceded by a colour performance art piece, and more abstract self-representation. Personal histories charting hardship, rejection and discrimination will be placed in a wider social, political and religious context through these characters' personal experiences.
At its heart, this is a film about the human spirit. Overcoming stereotype and categorisation, the gender construct breaks open, allowing personality and human emotion a path to expression.
Note d'Amor Invoking Marchesa Casati and judging the best costume at the Venice Carnevale 2015 in Piazza San Marco and Palazzo Pisiani @ The Consevatorio di Musicia B. Marcello. The Mistress of Ceremonies. Costumes sponsered by Arrigo Costumi Milano.
Lita Albuquerque "20/20: Accelerando" Opening Performance