…and then there was EVE is a one woman performative concert, embodied by Jeanna Criscitiello stems from a larger artistic practice that explores feminism and identity. A multi-voiced anti-hero EVE’s inner and outer voice are unfiltered and contradictory and become acts of resistance towards oversimplification of the human experience.
… and then there was EVE performs a collection of EVE heroes from multiple perspectives through invited participants asked to name a personal heroine and identify an object — book, work of art, photograph, and so on — representative of that figure.
New narratives were created by mixing hard fact, intimate confession and the poetics of story-telling. Reinvention, metamorphosis and transmission are reoccurring themes that play a central role in the creation of a feminine archetype with multiple voices – EVE.
In the framework of the exhibition Four Sisters at The Jewish Museum of Belgium, Jeanna Criscitiello will perform a thirty minute selection of her EVE heroes with a highlight on Chantal Akerman’s, Jeanne Dielman. A detailed study of Dielman’s hand gestures that span the three hour opus has been condensed into a seven minute fragment performed on stage and set against an original music composition which is as repetitive and physically exhausting as the endless loop of mundane chores that lead to Dielman’s catastrophic unraveling.
Jeanna Criscitiello’s fascination with facts and fictions that become woven realities is the basis of this performance.
Program :
3:30 pm: Doors open
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: “Four Sisters” guided tour with Yann Chateigné Tytelmans
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Performance EVE
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Talk with Jeanna Criscitiello and Barbara Cuglietta
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Drink
Price: 10 euros (+ free admission to the “Four Sisters” exhibition)
