ART Habens Art Review // Special Issue // Winter 2014

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Geneviève Favre Petroff

ART Habens

Loukoum

Loukoum

references. The mini dress and helmet I wear refer to the futuristic fashion of the 60s. The cubes of increasing size on my dress, which look like Turkish delights, light up independently and draw motives in movement, synchronized with the music. The visual animations evoke the 1980s, such as disco, video games and some Arabic patterns.

face to the sky. I sing loud and let my luminous costume express itself. All the lightning effects are coming out of the long and pyramidal satin dress and jewels decorated with LED lights I wear, and which can alternately react to my words and to my actions. During these fifteen years your Performances & Installations have been extensively exhibited in several occasions and I think it's important to remark that you have been awarded as well... It goes without saying that feedbacks and especially awards are capable of supporting an artist: I was just wondering if an award -or just the expectation of positive

Electra is probably the most successful performance I created, at the encounter of the Greek tragedy, the electronic music and the Science Fiction. I stand in the middle of the stage as an automated diva, moving my arms, turning my

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