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-"THE GROSSI MAGLIONI MAGIC DUO”
www.thegrossimaglionimagicduo.com
Vera Maglioni and Francesca Grossi 1982, lives and works in Rome and Milan.
Since 2006, Francesca Grossi and Vera Maglioni found "The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo” performance group, which aims to take a feminist and cyberpunk approach to illusionistic practices.
“The Zig-Zag Woman”
The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo references the slicing into thirds of a woman’s body, and presents two boxes, containing the performers’ two pelvises, onstage. Audience members are encouraged to place their hands in one of the boxes (Francesca’s pelvis) and touch a slimy raw chicken skin, in order to excite Vera, who is virtually connected via the neighbouring box, and in the process of reading “The actual and the virtual” chapter of Deleuze’s Conversations.
“This is an happening”
A performance which is a response to the indifference of gallery owners to artists. The magic duo surprises the galleries with a surprise performance: with a pair of scissors, they cut out a little sketch that they had previously drawn into the guest book. They then sell this sketch to the gallery owner as a “easy and small form of art” for $20.
“The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo Vs Betty Page & Tempest Storm”
The Betty Page & Tempest Storm is projected directly from the You Tube source in streaming. The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo follows the movements of the virtual bodies in each frame of the video, which are projected onto their bodies. But instead of dressing up like a femme fatal, as the women do in the film, they dress up like magicians. On the opposite wall, at the end of the re-enactment, the duo outlines why they turned to the burlesque and what had motivated part one of the magic duo’s performance.
"Macchine dematerializzanti e gabinetto spiritico per l'apparizione di corpi dispersi" (De-materialization machine and spiritic cabinet for disappeared bodies)
This project takes on the argument between medium and illusion-maker, between science and occult. A double cabinet contains a dematerialization machine capable of magically making bodies disappear and a spiritic cabinet, in which a medium will make the body reappear with the help of a scientist. The medium will dictate the DNA of the disappeared person to the scientist while in a trance.