‘In Conversation With The Beast’ | Performance, Photographs by Ursula Marcussen & Mixed Media Poetry | For Gentle Them’s 3 Day Manifestation works
2022
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE BEAST
Multidisciplinary: Performance, Photography & Mixed-Media Art Direction
In Conversation With The Beast came as a conflict and the concept of confrontation, trauma and liberation. The characters which by fate are chained to each other, confront each other and try to survive. The performance acts as a break into the spectator’s personal space and into their minds, attempting to bind them to the intensity of universal and/or familiar trauma. The guardian dressed in white, the symbol of confrontation takes the traumatized and dark inner self to a lighter space of patience and sentience. This performance was developed, directed and desgined by Ursula Marcussen and myself.
The photographs are a parallel connection to the performanc as a kindred, positive aspect in the acceptance of expressing aggressive energy. Seeking with curiosity the poetic and the child-like self.
