‘I Woke up in Beirut’ is a collaborative Photography and Performance Project between Georges H. Rabbath and Rebecca Russo. It started when Rebecca Russo came living to Beirut last 2014. Every day Georges H. Rabbath documents Rebecca’s life through black and white and colour digital shoots. It is fruit of the concept shared by Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath:‘Art is Life, Life is Art’.
‘Art is what makes Life more interesting than Art’. Robert Filliou
‘I Woke up in Beirut’ is a collaborative Photography and Performance Project between Georges H. Rabbath and Rebecca Russo. It started when Rebecca Russo came living to Beirut last 2014. Every day Georges H. Rabbath documents Rebecca’s life through black and white and colour digital shoots. It is fruit of the concept shared by Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath:‘Art is Life, Life is Art’.
‘Art is what makes Life more interesting than Art’. Robert Filliou
2014 PAC, Milan, Italy: Participation to Regina Josè Galindo Performance “Estoy Viva”.
Regina Jose’ Galindo, Carnada, 2006 Videoinsight® Collection
In June 2013 the Videoinsight® Foundation, in the context of the exhibition ‘Pressing’ at the Videoinsight® Center, originating from the contacts with the Indonesian art world, has proposed to the Public a site-specific Performance made by the internationally well known artist Entang Wiharso, named ‘Border -Less’. It was realized with the participation of Silvia Garis and Rebecca Russo. A wall of 200 white pillows was built by the artist, who has interacted with the two performers through long strings and drums. The event was held in collaboration with the Indonesian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It was edited by Melani Setiawan and Rebecca Russo. The Exhibition, accompanied by a dinner, did involve many international guests. For the occasion, the Videoinsight® Foundation has produced the catalogue ‘Pressing’, in Italian and English, which was donated to the attending spectators and spread in the South East Asia art system. On the website www.videoinsight.it, in the Events section/Pressing Videos, it’s possible to find the video of the performance, realized by Turin Piedmont Contemporary Art.
In April 2013 the Videoinsight® Foundation has proposed to the Public, at the Videoinsight® Center, the site-specific Performance made by Beatriz Millar, entitled ‘Lux Mater’. The artist Beatriz Millar has integrated art and kitchen, cooking a Bread doll that has offered as a gift to the attending people. The Performance took place in the context of an exhibition of videos and bread sculptures, Masha Facchini being the Curator. Video recordings of the event, made by Clara Rosenberg, are available.
March 2012, PAC, Milan, Italy: Participation to Marina Abramovic Performance, The Abramovic Method
In May 2011 the Videoinsight® Center has realized the site-specific Performance by the Artist Sissi, named ‘Analysis of the Unstitched’ . The performance event was accompanied by a complex exhibition including the artworks: ‘Archive Upon – Life Album’ by Sissi, a work consisting of 284 panels, then loaned to the Zagreb Museum; ‘Tables of Parallel Anatomy’ from the Series ‘Parallel Anatomy lessons’, performed in the Anatomy Theatre of the Archi-gymnasium in Bologna; a special selection of Sissi’s dresses, already presented at the Pomodoro Foundation in Milan, under Angela Vettese supervision. The photographic and video documentation of the event is available, edited by Egle Prati and by the photographers collaborating with the Videoinsight® Center.
Sissi site specific Performance, Analisi del Lembo Scucito
March 2010, MOMA, New York: Participation to Marina Abramovic Performance, The Artist is Present.
In June 2010, for the Opening of the Videoinsight® Center, the artist and actress Tita Giunta has edited and realized the site-specific performance entitled ‘VideoInsight’. It took place in front of “La Buona Novella” by Robert Gligorov, an artwork presenting a High Videoinsight® Impact, that had been shown previously by Rebecca Russo to 400 spectators individually.
Documentation of the performance is included in the text “Videoinsight®. Healing with Contemporary Art”, Silvana Editoriale, 2011.
The event did involve 500 guests, attending the Gala Dinner that accompanied the opening of the Videoinsight® Center and the Official Presentation of the Videoinsight® Project.
Tita Giunta site specific Performance, Insight
Rebecca Russo has been Performer for the artist Vanessa Beecroft.
Vanessa Beecroft, VB62, 2008 Videoinsight® Collection
