Angélica Liddell

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Angélica Liddell

Angélica Liddell (* 1966 in Figueres ) is a Spanish performance artist and theater director .

Life

She studied Psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Dramaturgy at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. Since 1993 she has been the initiator and member of the dance, theater and performance group Atra Bilis Teatro . Liddell herself works there as both a director and an actress.

The invitation to the Avignon Festival in 2009 marked her breakthrough to international importance beyond insider circles. At the Berlin theater festival Foreign Affairs 2015 she was the focus of the festival with two different guest performances, a solo performance and an author reading.

Content

“Personal, social and political violence” is the main theme in Angélica Liddell's theatrical works. For example, in the three-part work El tríptico de la aflicción, the traditional family structure is criticized as a place of brutality, violence and danger, from which, as socially determined, there seems to be no escape. In doing so, she primarily relies on experimental and avant-garde forms of theater, which often have a certain shock effect on the viewer. The unconventional and provocative handling of reality and its transformation onto the stage is a main characteristic in all of her works.

In her performances, it always came back to self-harm , making them programmatically in the vicinity of other performance artists engaged as Marina Abramovic , Gina Pane and Franko B . Associations with Artaud's Theater of Cruelty can also be found in the reviews.

In addition to the recurring use of razor blades with which she injured herself, in the performance Acción, for example, she “set in concrete” her feet up to the ankles to illustrate how social conventions function as “blocks on the leg”. The attending visitors were asked to label the blocks with their own words.

In one of her texts, Liddell makes the programmatic statement: “No quiero tener hijos. / Es mi manera de protestar. Mi cuerpo es mi protesta. / Mi cuerpo renuncia a la fertilidad. / Mi cuerpo es mi protesta contra la sociedad, contra la injusticia, contra el linchamiento, contra la guerra. / Mi cuerpo es la crítica y el compromiso con el dolor humano. / Quiero que mi cuerpo sea estéril como mi sufrimiento. ”(For example:“ I don't want children. / This is my way of protest. My body is my protest. / My body is failing fertility. / My body is my protest against society, against injustice, against lynching, against war. / My body is criticism and confrontation with human suffering. / My body should be as sterile as my pain. ")

Works

Theater and performances

In most of the plays mentioned, she worked as a director and dramaturge as well as an actress.

Angélica Liddell: You are my destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia)
  • 1988: Greta quiere suicidarse.
  • 1993: Leda .
  • 1993: El jardín de las Mandrágoras. Pequeña tragedia sexo-metafísica divida en nueve escenas y cinco lirios .
  • 1994: Dolorosa .
  • 1996: Suicidio de amor por un difunto desconocido .
  • 1998: Frankenstein .
  • 1999: Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes.
  • 2000: La falsa suicida.
  • 2001: El matrimonio Palavrakis. (Part 1 of El tríptico de la aflicción)
  • 2002: Once upon a time in West Asphixia. (Part 2 of El tríptico de la aflicción)
  • 2002: Hysterica passio . (Part 3 of El tríptico de la aflicción)
  • 2003: Monólogo necesario para la extinción de Nubila Wahlheim y Extinción.
  • 2003: Y tu mejor sangría .
  • 2003: Hysterica passio
  • 2003: Y los peces salieron a combatir contra los hombres. (Part 1 of Actos de resistencia contra la muerte)
  • 2004: Y como no se pudrió…: Blancanieves. (Part 2 of Actos de resistencia contra la muerte)
  • 2004: Broken Blossoms .
  • 2005: Mi relación con la comida. (Part 3 of Actos de resistencia contra la muerte)
  • 2007: Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes.
  • 2007: Belgrado.
  • 2009: La casa de la fuerza .
  • 2011: San Jeronimo - Survival Strategies . Performance at the Wiener Festwochen
  • 2011: El Ano de Ricardo (written 2005), based on Shakespeare's Richard III as a parable on the Iraq war
  • 2012: La casa de la fuerza - House of Violence . Performance at the Vienna Festival , dedicated to the drug war in Mexico apart sets

Publications

Secondary literature

  • Cynthia Gendrich, Candyce Leonard: February in Madrid: Contemporary Politics and Theater . In: A Journal of Performance and Art. Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan., 2004. pp. 76 f.
  • Susanne Hartwig: Chaos and System - Studies on contemporary Spanish theater . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, pp. 245-263.
  • Helge Meyer: Pain as a picture: suffering and self-harm in performance art . Bielefeld, Transkript-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-868-1 .

Awards

  • Premio Ciudad de Alcorcón for Greta quiere suicidarse
  • X Certamen de Relatos Imágenes de Mujer del Ayuntamiento de León por el cuento Camisones para morir
  • Premio de Dramaturgia Innovadora Casa de América 2003 for Nubila Wahlheim
  • Premio SGAE de Teatro 2004 for Mi relación con la comida
  • Premio Ojo Crítico Segundo Milenio 2005
  • Premio Notodo del Público al Mejor Espectáculo 2007 for Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes
  • Premio Valle Inclán de Teatro (2007), for El año de Ricardo
  • Accésit del Premio Lope de Vega 2007 for Belgrade
  • Premio Sebatiá Gasch de Artes Parateatrales 2011
  • Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática 2012 for La casa de la fuerza
  • León de plata of the 2013 Venice Theater Bienale

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Woman of Sorrows on stage: Angelica Liddell at the Foreign Affairs Festival ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Deutschlandradio Kultur from June 30, 2015 (mp3, 7 minutes)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ondemand-mp3.dradio.de
  2. ↑ Foreign Affairs Program 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  3. ^ Spain today: politics, economy, culture. Vervuert-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-86527-418-2 , p. 461 f.
  4. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Evil is a tremendous energy - Angélica Liddell and Ann Liv Young open the festival In Transit in the House of World Cultures . In: Berliner Zeitung of June 17, 2011. Accessed online on August 7, 2012
  5. ↑ Review , accessed August 7, 2012
  6. ↑ Review by Michaela Preiner, accessed on August 7, 2012
  7. ↑ See the pages on the works as a whole ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the publisher, accessed August 9, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caoseditorial.com
personal data
SURNAME Liddell, Angélica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonzalez, Angelica (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Figueres