PERFORMISSIMA : Performance 23,5° by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

PERFORMISSIMA - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVING ARTS

Performissima is a celebration of unruly forms, a call to total experience, to kinesthetic, visual, and sound extravagance.

The Wallonia-Brussels Center/Paris, also known as the Vessel, presents the 2nd edition of PERFORMISSIMA, an international performing arts festival, which will take place on Friday, October 24, 2025, from noon to midnight, both In-Situ & Off-Site.

Prototype and deliberately undisciplined, PERFORMISSIMA asserts itself as an invitation to collective experience and stands out by its structure and its non-alignment with standardized temporalities.

Co-produced with a network of international and cultural institutions based in Paris, PERFORMISSIMA sketches a contemporary transnational map of the plural regimes of performativity. Alongside about thirty artists based in Brussels and Wallonia, another thirty international artists from 24 countries come together to explore new forms, ways of saying, doing, and acting differently.

La Maison du Danemark – Le Bicolore presents Danish artists Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Christian Falsnæs at Performissima.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Born in 1970 in Manila, Philippines, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, aka Cuenca, is a Danish-Philippine visual artist. She has exhibited her work internationally and throughout Scandinavia. She has received numerous artistic awards.

Cuenca’s practice is eclectic, based on concept, context, and performativity. She uses different media and materials. In her sculptures and installations, the choice of materials is based on their symbolic value in line with the concept. Recurring materials include concrete, chalk, silicone, paper, steel, textile, and photography. Her performances and videos involve the body, often accompanied by written texts, songs, composed music, and sophisticated visual elements such as costumes that also serve as scenography. In her reenactments, Cuenca explores her own historical heritage and questions the place of women in art history and the artist’s identity as such. She collects, adapts, and universalizes her narratives with a critical and often humorous look at issues such as identity, culture, religion, gender, social constructions, and relationships. Her work addresses existential contemporary issues from a historical perspective.

Performance 23.5° by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

23.5° refers to the Earth’s axial tilt, the angle of its rotation axis around the sun, and the phenomenon of the solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest meridian altitude at two specific moments of the year: the summer solstice and the winter solstice. This phenomenon occurs simultaneously everywhere on the planet. The performance is a ritual and homage to light, health, and well-being. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen reads aloud messages engraved on lemons, then distributes these yellow vitamin-rich fruits to the audience.

At view:

Friday, 10/24/2025 - 12 PM
Maison du Danemark – Le Bicolore (on the street)
142 Avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris

Friday, 10/24/2025 - 6 PM
Place Georges Pompidou
The Wallonia-Brussels Center
127-129 Rue Saint-Martin
75004 Paris