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Artist Statement:
I use myself as a vessel of
abuse to provoke the viewer to
question what they have been
conditioned to believe on a
psychological level.
The body becomes the voice of
transcendental confrontations.
The dialouge is rebellious,
angry, territorial,
manipulative, sarcastic,
absurd, controlled,
speechless, invasive and out
of control. Within the
perimeter of the context, the
concept of crossing lines
evolve and the idea of
defaming is executed. The
process and endurance of pain
becomes the equation of
mastering displaced
independence through
separation.
I create
dance,choreography,performance,
video, photography,
installations, sculptures,
clothes and sounds to complete
these strange environments.
Everything is odd and surreal.
My influences are embedded in
the Bible, experimentations of
the self through alterations
and observations and analysis
of the human behavior in
controlled environments. The
writings of Aldous Huxley and
Sigmund Freud also prove to be
of significant inspiration.
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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 Forthcoming Art Basel
Miami Beach
Cinematheque/Multimedia-Live
Performance
2008 Forthcoming Art Basel/
Quint Gallery
2008 Miami New Times
"UNZIPPED"/ Live Durational
Performance Piece/
Collaboration with Octavio
Campos
2008 Art Rouge/ Design
District/ Curator
Milcho/Video-Photography
2008 Miami's Unofficial 112
Bday/ Camposition/ Ralph De La
Portilla/Live ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Belaxis Buil:
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2008 Freeport News/ Bahamas " Living in Freedom in Nature"
2008 BBC Art Scene Documentary Dream Cabaret/ Circx/ Solo Work
2008 Univision Morning Show/ Interview/ Dream Cabaret/ Conceptual Performance Solo Work
2008 Viernes Miami Herald/ Review-Comment/ Vagabond/ Live Performance
2008 Miami Herald Weekend/ Review Jordan Levine/ Here and Now
2008 Survival of the Fittest Documentary/ Art Rouge/ Curator Milcho
2007 Art BAsel/ Miami Herald/ Virtual Gallery " Don't be jealous because I have a cheetah print dress and you don't
2007 Miami Dade College Art Guide
2006 WLRN Arts Segment/ Interview/ Miami Contempoary Dance
2006 Miami New Times/ " Hott People" Review/ Finese and Runway
2006 Fairchild Gardens Art Basel / NWSA
Excerpt from the Miami Herald Review:
DANCE REVIEW > HERE & NOW FESTIVAL
A revealing peek into underground art
BY JORDAN LEVIN
jlevin@MiamiHerald.com
DONNA E. NATALE PLANAS / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Rosie Herrera turned in a gutsy performance in Circ X Stripped.
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The Miami Light Project's Here & Now Festival, now in its 10th year, provides a quick glimpse at what's bubbling up in Miami's theatrical underground. That's sexual and pop culture ambivalence, aerial antics and domestic rebellion, to judge from the four works performed Friday night at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
Diana Lozano's Circ X Stripped was the gutsiest, most challenging and most revealing -- in more ways than one.
Lozano, who presents sexy, outrageous cirque-go-go performances at clubs and parties, turns on her money-making venture with a vengeance. Profitable as it is, Lozano is ambivalent to resentful about the image-obsessed world where clients -- who leave messages requesting things like ''a girl dressed like a cross between a zebra and a cat'' -- care more about her cup size than her artistic yearnings, and the way it pushes her and her dancers into bulimia, anorexia, and constant anxiety about their body. ''I sell myself to make money'' Lozano says flatly. She thrusts the contradictions into the audience's face in Circ X Stripped, making us almost as uncomfortable as she is.
Dressed in latex bikinis and flashing bimbo smiles, Yvonne Gougelet and Heather Carol stroll the audience sporting LED screens showing video of breast enhancement surgery on their chests. There's video of the women answering questions about when they last vomited and what plastic surgery they'll get. Wearing hooker platforms and little else, Lozano, Belaxis Bull and Rosie Herrera do a writhing, Solid Gold-worthy pole dance around and into toilets, miming vomiting and scooping out money. The combination of their near naked, perfectly shaped (they're pros, after all) bodies in an all-too familiar commercial grind, together with everything implied by the toilet, is grotesquely funny and disturbing. Powerful stuff.
Interviews
THE FREEPORT NEWS BAHAMAS
Social/Community News
Living in the freedom of nature
By K. NANCOO-RUSSELL
Freeport News Reporter
With a keen eye for fashion and an appreciation for visual artistry, daughter of the soil Marinette Blatch is promoting The Bahamas and the many natural resources it has to offer through her company Bahamavizion.
Thirty-four-year-old Blatch, who was born in Freetown, Grand Bahama and currently lives between Florida and The Bahamas, is a model, graphic designer and writer. In 2007, she formed Bahamavizion, a design company specializing in calendar designs.
Her first project was the release of a promotional calendar featuring photographs of herself at various locations throughout Grand Bahama, along with different motivational quotations by herself and others.
Blatch describes the calendar, which is titled "Living in Freedom" as "an introduction of who I am," and explains that it was created as a representation of the ideas and concepts she supports.
Aside from modelling in Grand Bahama for many years, Blatch is also a 2002 graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale where she received her degree in Graphic Design and a special award for her portfolio. She has also worked in Germany doing graphics, and has done graphics for magazines in the U.S.
"I started the project because I've done so much and I just knew I needed to express that somehow and it's been a whole evolution for the last few years," she shared.
Formerly a casino dealer, Blatch said when the casino closed it was a "plus" for her since it opened up new doors.
"I ended up just being pushed into my dream of working in the fashion industry. One thing led to the next and I decided to go to Art Institute to study something to do with the arts... I followed my heart, that's the bottom line," she explained.
"Last year, I decided to produce something that represented me as a young woman from The Bahamas, coming from pretty much next to nothing, and it's a whole evolution of things that I've discovered about myself while in pursuit of just following my heart, doing what I loved."
Batch said she thought the project represented her very well and found it received great reviews from those who viewed it.
"I'm just overwhelmed with the response that people have been giving me so far ... Everyone's been so encouraging," she said.
Blatch said Bahamavizion is currently working on producing a 2009 calendar which will be due out in the Fall.
That and other customized calendars can be ordered via her website www.bahamavizion.com.
Her latest project, in conjunction with friends, model/photographer Belaxis Buil of Miami and local fashion designer Craven Forbes, is an editorial that she hopes will grace the pages of several magazines.
The article, which will feature photos of herself and Buil wearing Forbes' de-signs, is expected to be included in September's is-sue of ThinkWeston magazine.
ThinkWeston is based in South Florida and recently expanded, adding a fashion section to their publication.
The article is also expected to be featured in an upcoming issue of InFlight Magazine.
Blatch explains that her relationship with Forbes goes back many years, to her time in high school.
"Craven Forbes is the person who taught me to walk in heels... before him, I was intimidated by even one-inch heels. He also taught me, and so many other people, to put on make-up and to just embrace who we are as beautiful creatures of the Lord," she said.
"He's here still encouraging and helping other young women to just realize their true beauty and encouraging us to develop who we are. I owe so much to him."
Blatch explained that she met up with Forbes at the end of last year and they decided to work together for his fashion show launching his new line, which took place last month.
Blatch introduced Buil to Forbes, "and they just hit it off right away." Buil was featured as a model in Forbes' fashion show and they spoke about all collaborating on a project that would incorporate aspects of each of their work.
Buil is a visual artist whose work portrays subjects such as conceptualism, identity, confinement, femininity, nature, global awareness and space.
"I enjoy collaborating with other artists, especially when I see that, either consciously or subconsciously, they're working at the same level as I am," she said of her work with Blatch and Forbes.
What they decided to create was an article that would communicate, through both words and photographs, the concepts that they are all trying to represent in their work.
"This fashion story is about being a woman in society, being conditioned that we have to look a certain way, but then leaving all those remnants behind and coming back to nature," Buil explained.
In the body of work, Blatch explains, nature becomes objectified.
"The idea is to translate the concepts through fashion photography bringing not only the Bahamas and Florida's natural resources and the need to preserve it, but also the masterminds behind the production of the next intelligent level of fashion that can be catered to all social classes," she explained in an overview of the project.
The piece, she furthered, seeks to reach into the imagination of Forbes' "divinely inspired couture creations" from his new collection, titled 'C.'
In his work, he uses natural materials and his designs depict how fashionable those materials can be.
"I conceptually evolved the story of these patterns, these prints, these textiles, these bold colours that he's using from nature and we made a composition of it in the photograph. And within those photographs, you're going to see the elements of conceptual art, feminism, there's dance, there's movement space, it's just beautiful what we've created," said Buil.
Blatch and Buil just this week completed shooting the photographs for the editorial at various sites around the island, and Blatch said she will begin work on the article's text this week.
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Article from the Miami New Times
Hott People
Electro-pop duo Finesse and Runway jump around, get down, and break down
By Terra Sullivan
Published: September 23, 2004
During a recent CD release party for glitch punk Otto Von Schirach at I/O, a crazy-looking couple stood out from the crowd, seeming as if they just left the Greyhound bus station and happened to wander into the club on a whim. He's clad in a neon-splashed tracksuit, fishnet muscle tee, and a ratty, spiky black wig plopped on top of his head. She's got metal wires strapped across her face, tons of space-age makeup, and a shiny dress/shirt contraption with a matching headband.
Terra Sullivan
Dino Felipe, a.k.a. Runway, works the crowd
Terra Sullivan
Dino Felipe shows his ass as a ghostly-looking Belaxis (right) shields her eyes
Where:
Churchill's Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave
Details:
10:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 28. Tickets cost $10. Call 305-757-1807.
Subject(s): Finesse and Runway perform during Ladyballs
Then Belaxis, a luminous, ghostly presence, appears in front of the crowd with a keyboard, as a chorus of "ass and titties" blares overhead on the loudspeaker. As the crowd edges closer, the couple pop out and join her, revealing themselves as Finesse and Runway. Go figure.
An assault on the eardrums ensues, and the crowd is all smiles. Electro-booty bass is flavored with art-school theatrics throughout a set that includes the dance-friendly track, "Disco Rash." "You're addicted to the disco/Rub it with some Crisco, slip and slide on the dance floor/Turn into a greasy whore," Finesse sings in a voice that resembles Madonna's on "Into the Groove." She and Runway turn their backs on the crowd to do a set of jumping jack claps to the beat of the music, while Belaxis attacks the crowd with her keyboard stand (the keyboard isn't really plugged in).
Finesse and Runway's songs flow between ass-shaking roller-skating jams and chaotic, amphetamine-drenched, Boredoms-like noise as they chase people with strobe lights, roll around on the floor, and basically lose their shit. It's close to watching someone have a fit of Tourette's -- you don't know what will fall out of their mouths next. But it is impossible to look the opposite way because the show is so deeply entertaining.
As the most popular semi-androgynous electro/dance ensemble in Miami, Finesse and Runway are in a class by themselves. By the last song, the audience knows it, too, as they watch the duo pound their fists on the floor, lose their pants, dance bare-ass, and attempt some gymnastic splits for the grand finale, which results in Miss Finesse injuring herself. As it comes to a close, they say to the crowd, "Thank you, thank you, you're all very sexy."
A couple of days later, propped up in her bed with a cast on
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