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The Finger and the Moon #3.2 Performance, 2012-2024 (excerpt)
video: 13’31”, color, sound; performance: S. Agostino Museum, Genoa 2012
The Finger and the Moon #3.2. Performance originates from the homonymous performance piece held in the deconsecrated church of the Museum of St. Augustine in Genoa in 2012, involving people of different religious faiths and beliefs, who meditated together in a participatory collective performance.
The video was completed and first presented in December 2024 at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa. The work forms a diptych with The Finger and the Moon #3.1 video, as the long fieldwork carried out in Genoa to engage participants is an integral part of the project.
LIUBA’s videos come from a long creative process that involves project idea and concept, performance production, interactions of people, places identities, collaboration with specific selected cameramen, editing and direction, which are made by the artist herself. The resulting videos mix together all those elements and it a complementary work of the performance itself.
“I consider my videos like paintings, books and sculptures. I carve them, beginning with hours and hours of shootings as they were a huge marble stock, cutting and selecting piece after piece in order to obtain the final shape.
I paint every single second of the video, deciding colors and combining sequences, in order to arrive to the final pattern. I write chapters and scenes as a story, giving a sense to each step following the other. I mix the music with the intent to give voice to the whole levels of lecture implicit in the work. I often collaborate with musicians asking tracks to work with.
I use only original shootings taken during my performances. No studio shootings or actor interactions are used to edit my videos. What is shown is part of what ‘really’ happened and it’s chance one of the main hero of the work.”
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