Stories of lesbian sexual intimacy reflecting on the relation between the act of sex and the act of filming.
venues:
TOP BAR KINO for CINEMA NEXT, Vienna 2018.
Porn Film Festival Vienna. Fortuna Kino, Vienna 2019.
Remembering Pride: Queering the Night, WUK, Vienna 2019
In this work the artist talks about love relationships with women, starting with her mother. A bed set in the middle of the space, explores the qualities of it as a place of birth, love, sex, loneliness and death. Surrounded by 3 small TVs that shows stories of love, drama and porn & politics, the visitants are invited to lie down on the bed and choose the story they want to watch.
Videos made in collaboration with the filmmaker Nika Saravanja.
Each video has around 10 minutes.
Venues:
2019: Group Exhibition “Home Sweet Home” in the frame of BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina curated by Fernando Farina & Florencia Battiti 2018: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
After collecting stories in the neighborhood of Neukölln, Rhodi invites the audience to a multimedia participatory lecture-performance about stories of love in Berlin.
The artist met some residents of Neukölln in order to talk about their stories of love. At the same period, Rhodi researched about historical stories that happened in the same neighborhood. With the material, constituted by personal audios, pictures and videos, the artist made a collage of the collected stories in order to develop the multimedia and participatory lecture performance. The work has a structure of a lecture. It takes one hour and half with a pause of 20 minutes.
During the pause the audience can also take part sharing their own stories, answering by written the questions of a questionnaire Camila wrote, based on the collected themes during the research process.
Everything divided by themes and connected with excerpts of the American feminist author and social activist bell hooks’ book. The lecture-performance is compromised with personal and universal stories of love, touching on the compulsive drive to consume love as an expression of primal needs such as the need for care, nourishment, safety, belonging, emotional intimacy and validation.
The project touches on subjects such as oficial and unofficial history, gentrification, personal urban narratives, and cultural translation.
Few moments of the lecture performance:
Berlin, 2017
“A wonderful event, wholeheartedly thought and beautifully presented. You can feel the words coming out of Camila’s heart, and right into your own. Sehr zu empfehlen!!” M. Haten Hamdy
2017 for B-Tour Festival, Berlin, Germany
Using an audio in conjunction with a video which doesn’t have any image, Camila Rhodi combines a text spoken in a gripping voice with a continuous black screen. This confluence of audio and blank visual invites the audience in a natural way to create their own images in their mind.
VENUES
2016: Viena Contemporary. curated by Olaf Stüber – Vienna. Austria. 2018: Deviation Festival ACUD, curated by Musterzimmer Gallery – Berlin, Germany CINEMA NEXT, GartenBaum Kino – Vienna, Austria
Multimedia Performance, a pocket karaoke concert.
The performance is based on stories of physical and psychological violence towards women from all over the world. The artist takes the audience on a journey starting from the slum music from Brazil passing by some feminist, and queer pop songs.
The public display of intimate life details, fighting for the female sexuality deconstructing patriarchal structures of power and oppression, using the aesthetics of the ‘personal is political’ to the artistic practice as a method for empowerment.
–> this video is an edited documentation with also some comments in order to understand better how the Ethical Slut multimedia performance works:
(The whole performance takes around 30 minutes)
*Thanks to Beatriz Provasi, Flávia Naves, Mirabella Dziruni, Miss G (Giorgia Conceição), Samantha Rennó, Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Felix Speiser.
VENUES
2017: Chouftouhonna Feminist Festival. Tunis, Tunisia.
2016: Mash-up! – Multigender /Multiworld. Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Berlin, Germany
2020: The Book of S of I : Creatures born from Hopelessness
Another world, post-apocalypse. Feverish nightmares turning into utopian dreams. Bodies aligned in pleasure, summoning the ghosts of the past and the future. Give yourself into the world of The Book of S of I – a queer feminist sci-fi Saga about the desire to belong, about the power of mutual care, of bodily pleasures, and the yearning for tenderness.
The Book of S of I. Chapter One: Creatures born from Hopelessness is the first part of the trilogy.
The premiere of the film on June 13th. 2020 on the homepage of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the New Alphabet School # 4 Caring symposium
hkw.de
The film was created with the support of the M.1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation and the sponsorship award.
A Film by Malu Blume
2019: Beyound Vision
What happens when our vision cedes and we cannot experience our surrounding the way we did before? Are the remaining senses sharpened? Does reality blur?
Beyond Vision is a binaural one-to-one performance on Tempelhofer Feld. Blindfolded and wearing headphones, let yourself be guided by the hands of an invisible companion. Together you embark on a journey into the unknown. You will find yourself in dreamlike situations and discover the invisible and the intangible. The experience leads you gently and safely through your inner images, different feelings and states of being. It is an invitation to let yourself fall into uncertainty, to trust, to give in, to be touched, and yet be entirely with yourself.
Commissioned by B_Tour
in the context of Tracks in a Box.
Guidance: Shelley Etkin, Camila Rhodi
Voices: Shelley Etkin, Charlotte Happe
Thanks to Klara Pfeiffer
Photos © Joana Dias
Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, 2019
https://ilonamarti.com/Beyond-Vision
2018: Logistics of Loneliness in collaboration with Marja Christians. Rough Proposals, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
2016 : Walking with Ghosts in collaboration with Ghost Cinema
In the 1920’s, Filmstadt Weißensee, the now almost forgotten area in northern Berlin was once the city’s cultural hotspot. Stars like Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Lang were there, at Calagariplatz and on the Gustav-Adolf Straße, which at that time was lined with bright lights and 20 cinema houses. Among the finest and most popular of these was the former silent-movie theater Delphi. Direct on Caligariplatz, this relic rests like a hidden jewel, unrecognizable from the outside, and practically unknown to most Berliners. The theater miraculously survived WWII, and remained closed during GDR times. In fact, the theater has remained closed to the general public since the war, and remains so today. This building was one of the first cinemas of its size in the world, and the original interior of this former 870 seat theater remains intact. It is one of the best remaining examples of the glamour and flair of this important cultural era- the heyday of German silent film.
Directed by Paola Barreto
Videoperformance ( audiovisual editing + live projections/ mapping ) : Moana Mayall
Parangotela performance: Camila Rhodi
2015: “Fluids” – a 2015 reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s happening from 1967. Artist Alexandra Pirici
This version of Kaprow’s “Fluids” operates a change of material: from ice-blocks to the assemblage of the human body. The new work attempts to re-address and re-position itself in relation to some of the issues the original work tackled with – the medium of sculpture, the concept of monument, temporality, participation, production of collectivity – while also considering the human body as medium and the materiality of “immaterial” performative works and their economy at a time of a (second) “performative turn” in the visual arts. It also attempts a more abstract way of being in common – the participants building themselves into a 9 meters long, 3 meters wide structure instead of building an exterior object, thus reflecting on the effects of today’s immaterial labour (in affluent societies) as opposed to the former dynamics of the industrial age and the factory floor.
The living, sounding sculpture “melted” away from 12 to 8 p.m. in Potsdamer platz.
curated by Lisa Marei Schmidt and Udo Kittelmann production: Hannes Frey
participants: Ferre Naima, Valerie Renay, Zuzanna Ratajczyk, Paul Walker, Jozefiens Beckers, Reza Mirabi, Juan Gabriel Harcha, Julia Illmer, Josephine Findeisein, Marc Carrera, Annekatrin Kiesel, Amit Goldenberg, Miriam Kongstad, Maria Ferrara, Iam Campigotto, Helen Follert, Kathrin Knopfle, Jasmin Ihrac, Gregori Homa, Katarzyna Guzowska, Jolika Poulopoulou, Darcy Wallace, Julia Jadkowski, Ana Mrdjanov, Leonie Nadler, Jana Kruger, Carina Erdmann, Sura Hertzberg, Ralph Klein, Annette Zander, Alice Heyward, Yuca Meubrink, Viviana Druga, Rene Ricarda Vollhardt, Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen, Carlos Kong, Emily Ranford, Thomas Mielmann, Tobias Kluge, Corinne Schlichting, Lenine Guevara, Martha Hincapié Charry, Andrei Barza, Rachell Clark, Tatiana Heide, Laura von Raffay, David Loscher, Neele Ruckdeschel, Sven Hermans, Frida Yngvesson, Hanna Nordqvist, Giulia Heder, Sarah Bouars, Maddy White, Miha Jensterle, Rebekka Böhme, Pedro Vieira da Costa Filho, Juliane Dames, Jessica Kammerer, Paul Riemann, Eva Rozalia Tankó, Judica Albrecht, Lola Lustosa, Camila Rhodi, Dmitriy Povernov, Benjamin Egger, Uwe Zimmermann, Sarah Berger, Marie Zwinzscher, Sophie Camille Brunner, Anton Rose
commissioned by Nationalgalerie – Berlin in the frame of Stadt/Bild, Berlin Art Week
2015: ‘I am not a feminist but’ in collaboration with Makiko Yamamoto for Liquid Architecture . Melbourne . Austrália
This work was produced in collaboration with Japanese artist Makiko Yamamoto. Rhodi co-developed a performance piece to accompany Yamamoto’s 12 minute audio piece filled with the single sentence, ‘I’m not a feminist but…’. Yamamoto reads the sentence out loud with different distortions in speed, tone, and volume. Together both artists made the video performance.
2013 No Parking
Solo site specific performance about home for the master project of Jasmin Assade at Freie Universität Berlin.
2012
U-bahn Antigone in collaboration with Yaell Sherill
Live Performance for steinum knitwear for Berlin Fashion Week, Berlin, Germany
Inspired by the work of french 1970s fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, I made the video installation ‘A possibility to love’ as a transcription of one of the his pictures. I used my own image as an alive doll projected inside a gift box to build a body sculpture waiting for someone to ‘pick her up’. This doll is static and alive. She has thoughts, takes breath and has desires. Through an audio, the audience may hears privately her wishes.
| ‘Do U Wanna Talk About It?’ is a performative installation. In a private room, one member of the audience enters the room alone, sits in front of the artist and looks into the deep abyss of former experiences. The performance is autobiographical, only for one spectator and it lasts 4 minutes. (English and Brazilian Portuguese)
vídeo em português
VENUES
One Billion Rising – Tanz Quartier . Vienna . Austria . February 2016 (Vídeo)
Unruly Bodies – gender norms resistance
Sophia Conference -Brussels . Belgium . October 2015
Kunstahaus Rhenania – Cologn. Germany . May 2015.
100˚Grade Festival – Sophiensaelle and Hebbel am Uffer – Berlin. Germany. February 2014
Month of Performance Berlin . PIC_Pieces in Chain. Altes Finanzamt 2013.
Musterzimmer. Berlin. August 2013.
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Drops of love affairs experiences are written in red letters on a toilet paper. Beside the distortion of the song Je T’aime moi non plus, the work is a mix of erotic, funny and ironic random stories. The public display of intimate life details, with a non-fear of confronting sexual ethics, gender norms, and the tyranny of political correctness inspired by the so-called sex-positive feminist art. Fighting for the female sexuality deconstructing patriarchal structures of power and oppression, using the aesthetics of the ‘personal is political’ to the artistic practice as a method for empowerment.
It is a mixture of the funny, erotic and ironic stories of love affairs written in red on a toilette paper.
Berlin, 2012.
VENUES
2019: Porn Film Festival Berlin/ Luzia, Berlin, Germany
2018: Confraria Vermelha Confraria de Mulheres, Porto, Portugal/ ‘Come as u are’ by Curated by Girls, st. George, Berlin, Germany
2016: Tunis International Feminist Art Festival Chouftohoma, Tunis, Tunísia
2015: Ehemaliges StummfilmKino Delphi Berlin, Germany.
2014: Parallel Program of Manifesta 10. by Sale Festival. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2013: Sale Video Screening. Market Square, Cambridge/ Female Project. ARTicle Gallery. Birminghan. UK./Art.moment. Moscow, Russia.
2012: Home Base Berlin, Germany.
OVER 18 ONLY is a multimedia performance based on a parallel between the artist’s love affairs and her sexual abuse experience in childhood. In a confined space with one bed, each person from the audience lays down comfortably on the bed, sees the first video called Long Time No Sex projected on the ceiling and hears with headphones a mixed soundtrack based on Serge Gainsbourg‘s song Je T’aime. Next, another video called Over 18 Only begins in a small projection on the wall beside the pillow where the head of the spectator is supposed to be. This video describes the sexual abuse.
This random and ongoing video installation is a mixture of the funny, erotic and ironic stories of love affairs written in red on a toilette paper and a black and white serious story of violence.
The installation Over 18 Only combines the use of an installation comprised of two videos constructing the illusion of a private space, in a exhibition frame. The one-to-one audience is invited to dive in an atmosphere of intimacy, lying on the bed to watch the stories of a woman who looks for love and sex as a survivor of sexual violence when a child.
Venues (the whole video installation)
2017: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2013: 100˚ Grade Festival. Sophiensaele. Berlin, Germany.
15th Art and Media Biennale. Wroclaw, Poland.
Month of Performance. Altes Finanzamt. Berlin, Germany.
Musterzimmer Gallery. Berlin. Germany
2012: HB Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
Agora. Berlin, Germany.
100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.
100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.
The video shows the past memories of the same non-fictional woman in her childhood. This time the viewer gets in contact with the details of sexual abuse experienced by a child at home. ‘Home for me has never really meant safeness’
A black and white serious story of violence.
