Your Breath Was Shed-Closes Friday at LEA10

Visit Here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA10/128/128/21 See the video at the bottom of this post.


Hurry over to LEA 10 before it closes the end of this week.  Giovanna Cerise's notecard says:
"For the project " Your breath was shed" created by Mimesis Monday/ Heidi Dahlsveen, for LEA, I realized 4 artworks.
- Suffocation
- Energy
- The game of life
- Delirium
“The life pass from the first crying to the last breath”.
The man enters in the game of life through the first breath. This is always connected intrinsically to the emotional word. The breath of life allow us to live and when it is held, our emotions are imprisoned too.
It is suggested to activate the sound and to deactivate the streaming.
It is suggested to use region Windlight and set up  graphic preferences on advanced Lighting model and shadows Sun/moon
Opening Sunday 9th of march @ LEA 10
The exhibition will be open until 28 March"sic


Mimesis' note states: "- The title of this installation is from a poem by Dylan Thomas - the title of the poem is the same.
I have modified items from the following creators:
- Trees by Soror Nishi (some of them, others are like she has created)
- In the "big TV" horses by Alpha Tribe
- "Pregnant trees" are based on a shape made by Capcat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur.
Click around there are animations here and there. There are also gifts around, please take, but remember some you might figure out ^^^.
Enable sound, except for performances. Some of the performances have streamed music others will be in voice.
Parts of installation looks best with shadow enabled.
Have a max time.
Mimesis Monday."


I happened to hit the opening event and the exhibit was a good explore but SaveMe Oh was also on hand collaborating with the team of Giovanna, Mimesis/Heidi with a performance art experience.  Attendees had the opportunity to continuously change "outfits" that were provided for free and we danced and animated using the also free animations they provided with the outfits, in the matching temporary environment SaveMe Oh provided, changing scenes as the group changed clothes.  They even had dressing rooms set up but eventually due to the number of attendees and outfit changes most of us figured out we could safely change in public as long as were careful and kept our undies on.  We became "One With The Art".  I flipped on my camera... of course. 


Additional information about the exhibit and upcoming events and future exhibit: "
”Your breath was shed” - An artist and a blogger was invited to express themselves through the theme ”Breath”.
Fjara is an uncompromising blogger with her own honest expression that simultaneously conveys the mystique of being an avatar and human. For this project, she was asked to create a place as a contrast to the conceptual expression of the artist. Read more here. http://callustrinkets.wordpress.com/
Giovanna Cerise is now an established artist in SL. She creates a blend of space, expression and sound in her art. In her artistic expression in this project you can stand in the middle and be the observant of a story that unfolds around you. Remember to enable sound in her installations. More about Giovanna here: http://giovannacerise.blogspot.no/
Mimesis Monday/Heidi Dahlsveen is the curator and in this project an artistic modifier.


2. pm SLT – ”Wear to move” this is an invitation to enter an instant artistic creative collaboration. This is a performance where you can become the protagonist if you want. The performance artist Saveme Oh creates unique moments of moves and scenes for us to enter.
Saveme Oh is an well known performance artist in SL. Through her presence we are emperors without clothes. Her witty sharpness transforms simple "IM's" into dramatic texts published on her blog. In this way, she makes sure that  the virtual art continues to evolve. Read more here: http://savemeoh.wordpress.com/
LM: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA10/240/244/21
Later programme in LEA 10   
16th of march – Telling of creation myth   
27th of march – Storytelling workshop – pilot   
28th of march ”Your breath was shed” closing
April – theme – Silence - new art installation by Selavy Oh
May – theme – Persona – new art installation by Alpha Auer"


And the poem: "
“Poem (Your breath was shed)” by Dylan Thomas
Your breath was shed
Invisible to make
About the soiled undead
Night for my sake,
A raining trail
Intangible to them
With biter’s tooth and tail
And cobweb drum,
A dark as deep
My love as a round wave
To hide the wolves of sleep
And mask the grave."

Little Red Riding Hood-The Other Side of the Story-Opened Today 2-17-13

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Companion/128/128/22


(Cherry and Analy)
Cherry Manga (dressed as Little Red) and Analy Piers (Snow White with a following of dwarfs) led tours today starting at 12 SLT through their exhibit opening at The Companion. Suggested windlight was Tor Sci Fi Bridge Oper 1 which was just amazing  (Also try A-3AM as it's very different but clearer and you can see Soror's trees in better color) WOW! We, the party of tourist through this exhibit, were amazed at the ebbing and flowing glowing colorful, yet dark, world around us. And yes, it is a VERY adult and graphic version of the old 1790 Brothers Grimm "Little Red Riding Hood" story. The bottom level is by Cherry and Analy with some landscaping by Soror Nishi, and there is a top section by Alpha Auer and her alt Alpho Fullstop. At the top level there is a free cool unique avatar to be had from a gift ball thingy. Alpha credits much of her wolf head features to Leben Schnabel.



  Then toward the end of our visit the person I assumed to be hostess, Mimesis Monday, (Proverbium) let me know she is my old friend Frigg Ragu or Norwegian, Heidi Dahlsveen RL. She actually owns the land, The Companion, on which this exhibit is held and is a RL/SL artist and story teller in her own right.   She advised me she changed to Mimesis as some people misunderstood her prior name, so she is most often Mimesis now. I've heard she may be doing some storytelling at The Companion.



Anyway.. the wolf face can be seen along the way.. in trees and all over. Little Red meets the wolf and they hit it off dance and get it on, in essence she lost her innocence, is victimized by the beast, but later in a pouring rain of red blood, the wolf gets it in the end.  (The knife Little Red is weilding may be hard to see in this picture, but there she is getting revenge)The scenes are pretty graphic.  The upper level depicts a group of wolves looking on as their main wolf is slowly spinning pinned or stabbed before them.  It was a bit confusing at first.. nothing at all like the story I used to know. I took a lot of photos and went to Alpha's site for more information about the storyline here: http://www.alphaauer.com/?p=3911





A lot of the regular art goers were there including: Yesikita Coppola, Hypatia Pickens, Mystchavos Gryn, Alpha Auer, Alpho Fullstop, Jewel Appletor, TYLER, The Secretful Girl, Simotron Aquila, Cica Ghost, Kelty, Voyot, Rhojen, Suki, Yann Minh, Bear Silvershade, Sprite, Luc Fiercaster, leMelonRouge, June Angerona, Ziki Questi, Cat shilova, Namor Xue, Derry McMahon, Gem Priez, Coxi WuWai Chun, ChimKami, duna Gant, Cherry Manga, Harbor Galaxy, Anley Piers, SaveMe Oh, Kenzie, Betty Tureaud, Dividni Shostakovich, Desdemona, Tim Deschanel, Burlybri Tigerpaw, Babydoll Tracy Riederer, and more dropping in all the while I was there for the opening. Be sure to check it out and I heard it will be open through mid April.

(My travel buddies Babydoll, Burly, and ME!)