HUMAN SITE SPECIFIC installation-performance

The Divan is an interactive installation that has 11 areas. It can be experienced from both the outside and inside, and allows for many viewing points. The public leave their usual role of mere observer, and are invited to participate in 3 of the areas. The spectators who choose to enter can createtheir own path and experience as they explore the different parts that areoffered. Each person is free to decide the degree of his or her involvement and participation.

The Divan is an invitation to look at onself and other people in a new way. An enchanted place, reminiscientof a surrealistic hairdressing salon, where time has stopped. An atmosphere that leads the public to contact with their own ideas and ideals of beauty, and to question the impositionof certain aesthetic rules, often presented as absolute,untouchable truths.

A place of human meeting,familiar and free of inhibitions, in which to share ideas, opinionsand actions that question the aesthetic and celebratethe beauty of diversity.

The mirror shows the image we want to see...

WHAT IMAGE DO I WANT TO SEE?

WHAT IMAGE DO I SEE?

IN EACH AREAa proposal for the spectators:

The Divan magazine, a moment of re-flection on aesthetic diversity. Mirrors with questions that invite us to explore new ways of looking at ourselves. A moment to write about the fears and desires the idea of a change of image produces.

Weigh ourselves and take body mea-surements, and write them on the sil-houettes on the wall.

For the onlooking public, directed voyeurism with indications for looking through the keyholes and binnoculars, and to also observe the emotions that arise.

The voice recorder as the witness of a personal confession of some moment in which one has been discriminated against for his or her physical appearance, ideas, sexual orientation, aspirations, social class etc.

An invitation for a personal meeting with the hairdresser of the Divan.

The hairdresser shares photos, a short film, her memories and a certain inti-macy to invite the spectator to discover their own, and feel more open. A space of artistic expression, by means of collage, from people’s perso-nal experience in the installation and in relation to it’s theme.

A break to remember a special mo-ment in your life, whilst relaxing on a carpet.

An area for the spectators inside and outside. A cascade of cards on which to write aesthetc judgments, their own or others.

El espejo

Voces

Collage

Miradas

El DivánCuerpos

Sala de espera

Memorias

Libro de

reservas

Notasen el

tiempo

Cascadade losjuicios

CREDITSCreation & Interpretation: Fafá Franco

Direction: María Stoyanova

Music: Nick Prescott

Installation guide:Laura Giberga

Technical Production: Xavi Mateo

Production assistant: Mª Fernanda del Pino

Production assistant & Monitor: Georgina Majench

Graphic Design: Frédérique Faurous y Yael Olave / Yomisma-design.com

Photography: Peta Zeta Photo, Oriol Puig y Xavi Mateo

Vídeo : Teo Campos

Costumes: Valeria Civil y Tutia

With thanks to: Ada Vilaró, Atelier Escènic Stoyanova,

Toni Alonso, Angels Ruiz, Pato Zepeda, Oriol Puig Mercedes Barragán, Lupe Gar-cia, David Berga,Gisele Cornejo, Michael Gadish, El Tampolin, Marina Bergantin, Josep Piris, Lu Pulici, Yolanda Delgado, Jordi Durán, Anna Giribert, David Mari-mon, Sonia Castillo, Beatriz Fernández y Asociación Cultural La Felpa.

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Fafá FrancoM +34 610 003 801info@sientalacabeza.comwww.sientalacabeza.com

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