LAURA FOCARAZZO


Your favourite virtue ::
Honesty, perseverance, passion.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Humor, intelligence, passion.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Humor, intelligence, passion.

Your favourite occupation ::
Contemplation.

Your idea of happiness ::
A big garden / a cinema room.

Your idea of misery ::
Hunger, pettiness.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A singer.

Where would you like to live ::
Anywhere, near to the sea.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
all Pantone / jasmine or "Dama de noche"

Your favourite prose authors ::
Jorge Luis Borges, Abelardo Castillo, Milan Kundera, Yasunari Kawabata, Marguerite Duras, Paul Bowles and ...

Your favourite poets ::
Juan Gelman, Pablo Neruda, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Jacques Prevert, Charles Bukowski and ...

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
anti heroes

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
anti heroines

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Giotto, Rothko, Alejandro Colunga, Leon Ferrari, El Bosco / Bela Bartok, Sergei Rachmaninov, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, "Mono" Villegas, Hector Villa-Lobos, "Cuchi" Leguizamon, Ryūichi Sakamoto, Astor Piazzola and . . .

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Argentinian

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Elsa Scotti, my mum.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Dictators.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Asado, chocolate / beer, mate, coffee, Nesquik.

Your favourite names ::
Roque, Sofia, Catalina, Pedro . . .

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
Injustice, lack of common sense, intolerance, ignorance.

The change you most anticipate::
The wealth of some countries should not be possible at the cost of impovering others.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
It's not necessary to exercise in order to be healthy.

How I would like to die ::
Without knowing it ... I don't want to die !

What is your present state of mind ::
A big bang !

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
Inexperience.

Your favourite motto ::
" I'm the possible or the impossible, depending on who try it. "

15 mai 2010

Laura Focarazzo is an audiovisual artist and independent curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Her works include experimental films and videos which use sound as a 'script' for the construction of non-narrative pieces, as well as curatorial works. She conducts research in the field of the electronic arts. 

As an artist, she has had exhibitions at ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, United States; MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires-, Argentina; Festival Les Instants video: 50 Years of Video Art, Marseille, France; BAFICI International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rencontres Traverse Vidéo at La Cinémathèque Toulouse, France; Incubarte International Independent Art Festival, Valencia, Spain; Festival Punto y Raya, Reykjavík, Iceland; Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark; Lumen Gallery, Kyoto, Japan; Union Docs, New York, United States, among others.

website :: Laura Focarazzo
website :: Laura > vimeo

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890.