Libellule rouge

30-minute performance by the artist SKALL, in collaboration with the French center Le Générateur.

At the beginning, SKALL, a silhouette and anonymous figure, detaches from the audience. The artist’s body opens up, unfolds, and becomes infused with colors — and the metamorphosis begins. Moving through the space and at times brushing against the audience, she weaves a sensitive journey where the intimate becomes spectacle. Live, she combines sculptural objects, large veils, and creates a universe in constant transformation. A hybrid, dazzling red creature, she gradually becomes another being — between human and insect, between dance and ritual. Red Dragonfly – river of blood – is an apparition, a moment when the ordinary breaks open to reveal a singular, magical light.

This year, ARTefACTe5 presents two performance artists at Santa Mònica.

On the one hand, once again, ARTefACTe features the performance artist selected within the framework of the Performing Curation 2024 assembly. The artist chosen at the last assembly is Ramon Guimarães, a performer active since the 1990s and a protoqueer artist of his generation.

The second artist is the French performer SKALL, a long-standing creator in his country, curated by the performance art centre Le Générateur, located in a former

cinema on the outskirts of Paris’s 13th district, in Gentilly. As part of the RELÉ programme of the event.

• 5:00 p.m. Presentation of ARTefACTe5 and Le Générateur
• 5:45 p.m. Libellule rouge. SKALL
• 7:00 p.m. I am not washing my hands. Ramon Guimarães

Activity promoted by Club9 Performance Art
With the participation of SKALL
In collaboration with Le Générateur and the Institut Français

SKALL

Born in 1960, SKALL lives and works in Paris. Through a practice that combines visual arts (sculpture, installation) and performance, each of his public appearances offers only brief glimpses into the baroque and Dada-inspired universe that defines his work. In his performances, SKALL transforms, distorts, and metamorphoses — into a cloud, a bird of paradise, or a faun wearing raw chicken slippers, his head crowned with branches or feathers. An artist associated with Le Générateur since 2008, initially for Nuit Blanche and later through various projects.