Hello, today I’m going to talk about an artist that called ORLAN.  She is a French artist, born 30 May of 1947 in Saint-Etienne, Loire; but nowadays she lives and works in Los Angeles, New York and Paris. Her real name is Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte, but, she always sign her work has “ORLAN” in capital letters. She is famous because of her performance work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s, but she had a lot of other different art work that could be interesting to check out. 

I her beginnings in 1964, she used to work the performance art with some exercise that she called “Marches au ralenti” in which she walked in slow motions march between two central parts of her home town Saint-Étienne. Then in 1965 she  performend the “MesuRages” in which she use her own body as a measuring instrument and measure how many people she could find using her "Orlan-body" as a unit of measurement.

 In 1978 her performance “the Head of Medusa” was really controversial too,  she used the well know Freud’s phrase  "at the sight of the vulva, even the devil runs away, ” and  displayed her sexual organs under a magnifying glass during menstruation at the Museum Ludwig in Aachen.

In 1971 she baptized herself as  “Sainte-Orlan” a  conceptual name that she will developed later in the 90’ in her famous and renowned art work “the reincarnation of Saint Orlan”, that involves a series of plastic surgeries that transformed herself into elements from paintings and sculptures of women in the art history, as a part of that later would be  her 'Carnal Art' manifesto.

Hello, today I’m going to talk about a book that I’m reading that is called “Cerda punk”.  Cerda punk´s about an anarchist feminist girl who wrote a “fat manifest”, because she is so tired about all the stereotype of skinny body and healthy life.  Actually she is a vegetarian, so she is not fat because she eats junk food like the most of the people could think about her, if she is fat, is because there is more than a “correct type of body” that you can have, and think that the thin human body is the normal body is something that the capitalist society make us believe.  

  This girl, who wrote the book, call herself as “Missogina”, but her real name is Constanza Alvarez Castillo. She is a Chilean girl, who grow up in Valparaiso, under the pressure of are patriarchal and chauvinist culture.   In her book she use her own story, for give us examples of what we (Chilean people) do around people who is not “fit” in the norm.

I think that this is a really interesting reflection around how our bodies are a place that is really normed by society, because our anatomy is a place normed by the bio politics that take us the sovereignty, converting it in a place that don´t belong to us.  It’s not only the things that we eat, or how do we eat, there is a lot of other things around our bodies that we cannot decide too, like abortion, euthanasia, transgenic  food, drugs,  etc., etc. 

 cooming soon

Hello bloggers, today I'm going to talk about my friend Gabriela, who I really miss because she is living in Australia now.
We became friends in college, when I was studying art, we used talk a lot about art and aesthetic and we like similar things about it. We share a lot of ideas and enjoy of the artwork of each other. But art wasn't the only subject that we was passionate about it, we also share musical taste, fashion style, friends in common, places that we used to go to party, etc, etc.
Two year ago, she met an Aussie boy, called David who stole her heart and took her to live in Australia (the happy island). Now she have a baby girl, called Mia, and they live happily ever after in Sydney. Gabriela and Mía came to visit Chile, last month, so, I met her daughter Mía. She is a sweet little baby, who has the blue eyes of her father and the brown hair of her mother.
When we get together a month ago, Gabriela and I catch up from all the thing that are going on in our lives. We both are doing our things, creating art pieces, studying psychology and making performances in my case, and being in love and living the adventure of settle in and other country in her case.

well that's all folks, see you next time ! Bye, bye!

Jazmín.