CHEW // MASTICA

CHEW - presented in the collective platform ]performance o p e n[ at ]performance s p a c e[
March 2013

A short durational multimedia action

Chew, an action of mortification and liberation.
This piece is about a body that has been physically transformed, re-formed, de-formed. This metamorphosis was the outcome of an internal confrontation.
Inside out, outside in. Stretching, Constricting.

GATE F @ Stoke Newington International Airport

Identity Matters // Sexual Identity

January 2013

Identity Matters - video trailer (2011)

Identity Matters - click here to see the video trailer

IDENTITY MATTERS /performance/video/installation

A multimedia performance which revolves arround the issues of body, action, matter, video and audio that merge into a unit of purpose; its flux of identity formation.

The body, an empty canvas.
Identity, a social construct.
A 'self' constructed by elements that in flux compose a whole: the subject.
An individual in a constant search for a sense of belongin that is never attained.


**This performance is a collaboration between Vago Tedosio (sound and video), Carolina Rieckhoff (costume design and installation), Valeria Tello (choreography) and Lorena Pena (concept, direction and production).

The Performance's BLOG:
http://identitymatters-lopena.blogspot.com

413.223.78

413.223.78

This video performance is based on the idea of ​​a scientific-ethnographic analysis.

Object of Study: Body.

Subject: Female.

Nationality: Peruvian.

Racial Identity: Hybrid.

I am Peruvian by birth and growth, but some people in Peru see me and think I'm foreign, they speak to me in English (or else they believe I am Spanish, Argentinian, Chilean, even Brazilian) and they wont believe or accept that I am Peruvian, is a fact that my 'body image' is not identified with a typical 'woman' identified or recognized as 'Peruvian'.
 
BUT...

What really makes us "being" Peruvians?
Why, in the XXI century, we still get carried away by appearances to define a certain nationality or cultural identity?
What does that say about us? Are we aware of this? And why do we consent it?

Beauty Hurts -A demonstration- VIDEOS

Videos from "Beauty Hurts -A demonstration-"
Performance and concept: Lo Pena
Videos: Mariana Rocha
December 2010
London UK

Beauty Hurts - A Demonstration

Beauty Hurts –A demonstration- presents us with the issue of feminine beauty ideals and their mediated social standards and beliefs; Historically women have had to undergo with beauty social standards and submit themselves to tortuous treatments to fulfill them.

A spa/medical/beauty demonstration, a history lecture, a teleshopping program as a platform to question social demands on beauty imposed by media, fashion and practiced in our daily routine.

Beauty Hurts - A Demonstration
DEC 2010
Brunel University
London UK

The High Heel Marathon 2010

by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Ornella Nicolacci

by Ornella Nicolacci

by Ornella Nicolacci



by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

by Ornella Nicolacci

by Ornella Nicolacci



by Steven Kenny

by Ornella Nicolacci



by Ornella Nicolacci

by Steven Kenny

by Ornella Nicolacci

by Steven Kenny

by Ornella Nicolacci


by Ornella Nicolacci


by Steven Kenny

by Steven Kenny

HIGH HEEL MARATHON: To be a propper woman.
Performance
23 NOV 2010
ArtEvicT - London, UK.

High Heel Marathon is a performance that reflects on the Social Standards of Womanhood and the Aesthetic Rituals we –girls/women- go through to try to achieve them by inviting the audience to witness a Marathon-Race in high heels as a Ritual to become a “Real/Proper/Super Woman”. 

As Simone de Beauvoir said:
"You're not born a woman, you become a woman."

We must ask ourselves, in every interpretation of rite, about “the social function of the rite and the social significance of the boundaries or limits that the ritual allows to cross in a legitimate way”

(Bourdieu 1997: 117).

Womanhood is the period in a female's life after she has transitioned through childhood and adolescente.

Many cultures have rites of passage to symbolize a girl's coming of age, such as confirmation in some branches of christianity, bat mitzvah, in Judaism, or even just the custom of a special celebration for a certain birthday (generally between 12 and 21), like the Quinceañera of Latin America.

"Femininity" is used to refer to a set of supposedly typical female qualities associated with a certain attitude to gender roles.

Reasons against wearing high-heels, which are almost exclusively health and practicality reasons, include:

• they can cause foot pain
• they increase likelihood of sprains and fractures
• they make calves look more rigid and sinewy
• they can create foot deformities, including hammertoes and bunions
• they can cause an unsteady gait
• they can shorten the wearer's stride
• they can render the wearer unable to run
• altered forces at the knee caused by walking in high-heels may predispose to degenerative changes in the knee Joint.
• Women who wear high heels frequently have a higher incidence of degenerative joint disease of the knees. This is because they cause a decrease in the normal rotation of the foot which puts more rotation stress on the knee.

Reasons for wearing high-heels, which are almost exclusively aesthetic, include:

• they change the angle of the foot with respect to the lower leg, which accentuates the appearance of calves
• they change the wearer's posture, requiring a more upright carriage and altering the gait in what is considered a seductive fashion
• they make the wearer appear taller
• they make the legs appear longer
• they make the foot appear smaller
• they make the toes appear shorter
• they make the arches of the feet higher and better defined
• they make the lower leg muscles more defined
• they make the gluteus maximus more defined
• they may improve the tone of a woman's pelvic floor.

PELLEJO -performance por Lo Peña / PELT -performance by Lo Peña

PERFORMANCE pellejo

ENSAYOS / REHEARSALS
2010-11

PELT Proyect –Multimedia Performance by Lorena Peña

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“The most profound is the skin” P. Valery

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The skin as a map, that scar by Scar, makes the mapping of a lifetime.

PELT Proyect was born as a reflection of a personal obsession with the body, its aesthetics, its distortion, its meanings, both from the outside and from the inside.

The artista in PELT exposes her personal experiences with a bady that has experiences severe transformations, and that as a result, her skin and body have left a trace.

PELT comes as a response to the standards of beauty and the ideal of a female body imposed by the media in our society today; seeking for her release, recognizing and reconciliating with her own body.

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From 15th to 24th APRIL 2011

/ / 8PM / /
elgalpon.espacio

Av. Cipriano Dulanto 949, Pueblo Libre. Lima – Peru.

(Alt. of cdra 6 av. Sucre)