Performance Art: India Salvor Menuez

This artist works in many different mediums, but I will be focusing on her performance art.  She created Luck You, which performs and creates in various galleries. She also combines video and direct performance with her character Chibi Cherry, an entertainer. You get to explore different aspects of Chibi's life with an overwhelming surreal and strange tint to the videos and performances. For much of her performance art, she uses her body as part of the art. Considering that she does modeling on the side to support herself, it is interesting that she chose to make her art similar to her career. With performance, she is using her physical being in order to create art. Overall, I enjoyed her work because she completely commits to these strange roles and, by doing so, her work is almost liberating to the viewer. It offers a strange look at the over-sexualized image of women that we are so used to, while still showing she is completely comfortable with her body.  Through her disconnect from reality that is evident in the unreal animations and activities, as well as in her body language, it somehow pulls the viewer further into her strange performances.




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