Video

Liabilities Part 1 & 2

Monique Moumblow

1994, 24:30 minutes, English

TAPECODE 10221

Liabilities is based on four years of performance work I have done with an alternate persona "Anne Russell". The character "Anne", is autobiographical in nature and originated from a name that my parents decided against calling me when I was born:
Before she was born her parents had an argument about what to name her. Her mother wanted to name her "Anne" after an aunt, but her father wanted to name her "Monique" after a character that appeared in a late-night television movie.
In the video, this leads to the creation of two characters. Anne", whose father is killed in a freak car accident, leaving her mother free to name her, and "Monique" whose father survives and finally chooses her name.
Anne and Monique become the main characters in
Liabilities, recounting a series of mundane (but sometimes fantastic) stories about their lives. What is important within these narratives is that "truth" and "fiction" are not seen as opposing ideas, but as essential parts of each person's autobiography.

Liabilities est basé sur quatre ans de recherche en performance autour d' "Anne Russell" et son personnage alter-ego de nature autobiographique...
Avant la naissance, ses parents ne s'entendaient pas sur son prénom. Sa mère voulait l'appeler "Anne" comme une tante, et son père désirait "Monique" d'après un personnage d'un film à la télévision. L'histoire amène à la création de deux personnages - Anne, dont le père est mort dans un accident d'auto imprévu (laissant le soin à sa mère de la nommer) et Monique dont le père survit de l'accident et réussit à la nommer à son gré. L'importance de ces narrations se trouve dans l'idée que la "vérité" et la "fiction" ne sont pas des vues opposées mais plutôt des parties essentielles dans l'autobiographie de chaque individu.

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