Elisa Cardellini's video: Dorothea Tanning

'Demain Demain le vetre sera horloge demains les heures à bout portant jour ferié du fou- rire lasse de sang la nuit ronge son os ma maison s'interroge et deplore ce soir, bain de boue soir fétiche de cent mille ans, mon vampire.' ('Demain', Dorothea Tanning, 1964) 'C'est au soleil qu'on se pâme Filles, garçons et chiens ombragés Doux infâmes À ces rites la lune tremble Et pire, elle n'est plus là Salut, délire! Corps et Visage font un, nuit et abîme aussi Place au chaos, failles aux reflets noirs O géométrie féroce! Quoi de plus grave qu'une destination? À l'arrivée un soupir monte de fond sans fond (Ce n'est pas la réponse) Sur le grain des deux corps Pleuvent mes noms de chiens Flots blancs, noyades, tout tombe, cascade Tant bien que mal Sur le grain des deux corps Tu n'a jamais assez De la boue; la fumée Te lacère et ta voile Est soufre. À la nage là-bas Dans le bleu rougi de vent De plus en plus éphémère Il n'a même pas eu lieu Parfois en hurlant L'écho se tait Il ment il ment Midi et demi passent Devant la porte Avec leur troupe Hilare Week-end meule de foin Couleur d'or Ouvre-moi le bal En chair et en or ('En chair et en or', Dorothea Tanning, 1973) Dorothea Tanning (born August 25, 1910) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre. Dorothea Tanning was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. She attended Knox College there from 1928-30 before living for several years in Chicago. In 1935, Tanning moved to New York, where she discovered Dada and Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art's seminal exhibition, Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, in 1936. By the early 1940s, Tanning was working on her own surreal paintings while she supporting herself as a commercial artist. Impressed by her creativity and talent in illustrating fashion advertisements, the art director at Macy's department store introduced her in 1941 to the gallery owner Julien Levy, who immediately offered to show her work. Levy later gave Tanning two one-person exhibitions (in 1944 and 1948), and also introduced Tanning to the circle of émigré Surrealists whose work he was showing in his New York gallery, including the German painter Max Ernst. As she recounts in her memoirs, Birthday and Between Lives, when Ernst visited her studio in 1942, they played chess, fell in love, and embarked on a life together that soon took them to Sedona, Arizona, and later to France. She married Ernst in 1946, in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. (from Wikipedia) Musica: Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet, 'G-Song', dall'album 'Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain' (1985).