ART NUE

thursday night, pNeuMatiKos  performed at the gallery. what was experienced goes so far beyond words that it is no obvious task to describe. the internally liberating effect of their performance came from the direct, pure, intense and totally instinctive and natural way they performed. it felt to me like this was art stripped of all artifice, art concentrated into a pure energy coming from breath (which is life force), and the body's movements. this was ART NUE (which i like as a term because it contains the same letters as NATURE ). i love the idea that they performed naked art - the pure essence of how the body's mind expresses itself....breath, body, sound energy

luna montenegro, martin bakero and adrian fisher were each emanating strange beautiful animal raptures in the sounds and movements their bodies made which were enhanced and in close relation to dan charles dahan's sound poetry interventions. they were not choosing with their minds what to do, how to move, what sounds to make, the energy circuitry in their bodies was let loose and allowed to manfiest and express itself in whatever way it wished. this was primal grace. there was a rhythmic, ritualistic, primitive, sacred, wild, unleashing of breath, sound, and body. the performance took us all into a new unknown, it was a place that felt pure and free.