Transmigration is a live multidisciplinary interactive performance art experience, including live music and a site-specific installation, an abstract representation of the vulva as a portal for human souls. It is inspired by the feminine energy of both artists Levin Delgado and Skrip. The performance takes place following Ronit’s birthday. It is an invitation to engage in a BIRTHday celebration, join the symbolic cleansing ritual, and collectively reflect on life and the past year. Honoring birth and life, celebrating the joy of nature as we connect through essential resources; mother earth’s gifts such as fruits, flowers, and water.
Multidisciplinary performance artist Ronit Levin Delgado, In collaboration with sculptor Alyona
Skripka and musician Sonic Elixirs.
The transmigration of souls believes that the soul is reborn in one or more successive mortal bodies, a form of reincarnation. The installation, placed on a hill in front of the lake in Rosekill, is made of three arches connected at the top and staked to the ground. Silk-like fabric is draped over each section, creating a flowing curtain opening, symbolizing feminine power. It is a portal for the souls, connecting the sky and the earth, a metaphoric gate of the transcendental experience of celebrating the birth.
The interactive performance is a ritualistic movement base that interacts with the installation and the viewers.
Inspired by her Paraguayan heritage, Levin Delgado brings the traditional Paraguayan “Terere Thermo”(water vessel), covered with the artist’s pyrography of flower drawings made by her family in Paraguay and embossed on leather, including of her late sister, carries and contains water and reminds us that life is fluid and pure.
Ronit Levin Delgado is an Israeli–born, NYC–based multidisciplinary visual artist and a Fulbright
Scholar. A graduate of the MFA Studio Art program at MSU, and the BFA Fine Art program at Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design, Levin Delgado has won multiple awards and honors, including the Fulbright
Scholarship. Levin Delgado has had solo and two-person exhibitions, and her work has been widely
shown in international group exhibitions in Israel, Europe and the US, including the Queens Museum, Art
Basel Miami, Spring/Break Art show, Magnan Metz Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Trestle, The Border,
The Cell, Museum of Russian Art, Grace Exhibition Space (NY), The Frame (PA), Guttman Museum,
Hertzelilinblum Museum (TLV), Cardiff, Wales, and Leeds(UK). Her work is featured in both private and
public collections.
Through the creation of sensorial experiences, Levin Delgado’s work explores conditions of instinctual
interactions through the use of the body, ritual, and the intimacy of a kiss. As a multidisciplinary visual
artist, Ronit publicly questions the personal narratives of vulnerability and desire, using a combination of
mediums ranging from site-specific installation, interactive performance art, video, painting, and sculptural
objects. Inviting her viewers to immerse themselves in a shared private moment within a collective
environment. As a Fulbright scholar from Israel, she finds it important to fuse rituals, fragments of cultural
traditions, and beliefs into expressive performative actions and objects.
She explores the transforming of hardships, difficulties, and struggles, into a healing process of rituals
that celebrate "joie de vivre," ( joy of life). By joining the slivers of different stories, experiences, cultures
we can bring about universal healing, mend each other's wounds in order to survive, function and flourish.
www.ronitlevindelgado.com
@ronitlevindelgado
Alyona Skripka, aka Skrip, is a Russian-born multimedia artist, designer and fabricator. She thrives on
creating immersive experiences while up-cycling and using as many found materials as
possible. Her art promotes playfulness and a carefree attitude, inviting audiences' inner children
to come out and play. Skrip's work focuses on self-healing and self-love through reconnecting
with her inner child.
Considering the audience's needs helps her to determine what type of engagement people will
have with her work. In 2017 she founded Happy Mojoom, a full-service design, production, and
fabrication company.
https://www.alyonaskripka.com/
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Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm
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