Artist CV + Statement

Artist CV

The Consumer and The Consumed - Kings Head Theatre, Feb. 2024

The consumer, the consumed, and the fetid, mucous-coated boundary between the two are presented by Practicing Frank and Jia-Yu ChangCorti in this 10 minute performance. Conceived of as part of a performance series - part Butoh, part live-art, part unpredictable social monster and part environmental disaster - two quantum entangled mouths explore the push-pull drip-feed of entertainment, and the compulsion to consume.

Two bodies are presented simply on the stage, side by side, tangled together, overcome with an amalgam parasite rotting the skin, and below revealing dozens of fleshy mouths compelled with the act of swallowing. The dark-poetic Butoh body meets David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, this movement piece duet makes a home in the unheimlich.

Marina Abramović Retrospective - Royal Academy of Art London, 2023-24

Durational performance artist as part of the Royal Academy of Art Marina Abramović exhibition, performing in durational format
- Imponderabilia, Ulay/Marina Abramović, 1977
- Luminosity, Marina Abramović, 1997
- Nude with Skeleton, Marina Abramović, 2002

More information about the show: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic

Butoh Performance Intervention - Florence & Agropoli

In Cammino verso di Mare - Butoh Group di Vangeline & WADE Young Ensemble Martedí 11 Luglio (2023)
Choreographed by Butoh Artist Vangeline, a public intervention Butoh performance

‘Objects Invite Me To...’

‘Objects Invite Me To...’ Choreographed by Yuka Negoro sets out to discover unknown movements, forms and methods of working by surrendering to objects. Through an interest in somatic approaches, the focus of the research moved on to altering perception of objects and of the body through attention, passivity and sensitivity.

This research project challenges anthropocentric assumptions about familiar objects such as: “everything is the object to control and use and we are the subject with a desire to satisfy.” (Dreyfus, 1987) This work endeavours to disrupt this hierarchy and reveal the expressivity of banal objects.’

See in full: https://youtu.be/x0OYXIvFyWo OR

https://cargocollective.com/Yuka_Negoro/Objects-invite-me-to

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artist statement

Firm Determinations:

Create/foster an intimacy with the audience
Be open to pursue failure
Blur the boundaries between art and life
Use/develop skill/craft in performance
Engage with the breath
Break moments of comedy and tension
Ensure the performance is completely accessible
Learn from the performance itself
Do not fulfil the full potential of a performance; leave some unsaid and undone
Be kind to oneself and others in the process of making a performance/performing

Image (2).jpeg — Who is my soul?

Who is my soul? Who would I like it to be? What is the likely reality?
If my soul has a foot then how would he walk? And through what world? To where?
When have my soul and I met? What was happening? How was the encounter? What did we make of each other?
I’d like to sit down to tea with my soul, I think. The thought is fleeting, it believes itself to have a deeper intention than the magnitude of commitment. It’d be very rude, when sharing tea with an old friend, to be hopping and running and lolling about - distracted.
It’d be good if our tea having never ended. Well, perhaps until ‘I’ die. What are the things to do to keep a tea party going? And how to shape the going as a good going; full of love?
Would we love each other? How do we get there?

Practicing Frank in aphorisms:

Practicing Frank is a squirmy, smiley, adventurous artist
They practice work that celebrates that they made it, it's soft, it's ugly and pretty at the same time, sometimes they can treat it bad or forget about it and then it's OK to love it again later
Practicing Frank stands against desire and craving. They make her really cross, they create the condition for continued suffering and are unsatisfactory.
The work looks like dirt and vaginal secretions and unshaven bottom of ankles and unresponded to emails