A finger in an eye

2022, site-specific performance and sound installation, Former Convent Le Clarisse of Caramanico Terme (PE)

Listening to and inscribing the landscape into an elliptical trace. The potential of distance becomes performative in the gaze and the remote memory of the legend. The voices of a dialogue composed of elliptical phrases guide two performers who, immersed in the landscape, appear like organized ants. Here, the proximity of listening collides with the distance of movement.

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The performance, located 220 meters away in a direct line, is visible through a large window of a room in the Ex Convento Le Clarisse in Caramanico Terme. The two performers move concentrically to the rhythm of a dialogue amplified in the room where the audience is present. The dialogue is the result of a literary collage of archival materials, stories, sayings, and local legends, rewriting a new legend about the founding of the convent.

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