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You can sell everything! Buy everything! To live is to consume! To be is to have! Steven Cohen, a radical South-African performance artist fights against this world of a destructive nature. As a tribute to his brother who committed suicide and who he considers as one of the casualties of economic wars, the choreographer dances, films and invents a pagan, accusatory and sensitive ceremony. An act of love and memory where he welcomes beauty, politics and violence... as always. “This is a work made with the body and about the body - in every sense, from being alive to bones and ashes. It dances between the morality of shopping and rituals of lamenting - in a life where anything is for sale and everything concludes in death. The work is not about bringing the dead to life figuratively, but about bringing the dead into life literally - and about how we live - the demands made on us by a commodity-mad capitalist society - what we consume and what remains. Stepping in the gap between legal and moral, this is a work about principles and ethics and how to reduce huge concepts into simple actions – like walking and eating - only it's where I walk - and how - and what I eat.” Steven Cohen BackgroundSteven Cohen, a South African performance artist, develops artistic performances in various locations (stages, museums, art galleries and unusual public spaces such as taxi ranks, horse racings courses, malls, dog shows, fascists meetings, etc.). He appears at unexpected and often inopportune moments. He uses his own body and those of others to create a “living art” close to sculpture, dance and cross-dressing. His performances examine several means of expression dealing with various identity issues linked to Jewishness, homosexuality, racism and ethnic identity. At Les Subsistances, Steven has shown five shows: “I wouldn’t be seen dead in that” and “Chandelier” in 2004,“Dancing inside out”, “Maid in South Africa” and “Tradition” in 2005.Distribution & ThanksCreated and performed by Steven Cohen. Photos by Marianne Greber. Sound by Christophe Dupuis. Video by Steven Cohen, Joshua Thorson, Philippe Gautier.Produced by Steven Cohen (South Africa). Co-production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France. Coproduced by Festival d’Automne à Paris, Ballet Atlantique Régine Chopinot (La Rochelle), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels). Associate producer: Latitudes Prod. (Lille). With the help of: Département Afrique et Caraïbes en créations de CULTURESFRANCE – Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. |