Performance and performance installation

conception and direction Barbara Stimoli and Titta C. Raccagni

performers Barbara Stimoli, Camilla Isola
live sound Antonio Della Marina
lighting design Barbara Stimoli, Titta C. Raccagni, Enrico Peco

production Nexus 2022

With the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna

co-production Teatro delle Moire/ Danae Festival
with the support of theworkroom residencies (Fattoria Vittadini/ Fondazione Milano), Stazione di Topolò/PostajaTopolove, BASE Milano
in collaboration with Dialogues Residencies of the performing arts at Villa Manin curated by CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia 2021/22

duration: 50 minutes, variable for the installation version

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The performance Coming to matter is one of the evolutions of the Pleasure rocks research, which has been exploring for years forms of re-signification of pleasure in the relationship between human and non-human. It is a space of encounter and intra-action of matter, between human bodies and stones. Entering into relationship with the stones is an act of care: I do not move but I am movedə, I do not choose but I am chosenə, I do not move but I am movedə, in a continuous reconfiguration of the gesture. The perception of chronological time shifts and dilates: a meditative state, a dynamic stillness, is generated. The human gradually subtracts, in a process of decentralization.

“Together with Haraway, we might ask: whom and what do we touch when we touch electrons? (…) In a breathtakingly intimate sense, touching, sensing, is what matter does, or rather, what matter is: matter is condensations of response-ability. Touching is a matter of response. Each of “us” is constituted in response-ability. Each of “us” is constituted as responsible for the other, as being in touch with the other.”

(Karen Barad)

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