Credits
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
Coming to matter
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)
