L’INVITO DELLA LUCE
Eugenia Coscarella
Note:
Residenza artistica Tabula Rasa di Doriana Crema
I frammenti di testo sono estratti da: JOHN BERGER, E i nostri volti, amore mio, leggeri come foto, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2008.
THE DIARY OF MY ARTIFICIAL FRIEND
This is Crissie. She wants to be a bird. She also likes planning art projects, listening to ABBA and meditating. Everyday she writes to her diary. This way, she keeps track of her self-discovery.
By opening her diary, I invite you to a complex reality-fiction entangled relationship to what ultimately could be an animated reflection
echoing,
does it resonate with you in any way?
What creates empathy?
It’s a question that remained from following Mara Oscar Cassiani in residency with AI Love, Ghosting and Uncanny Valleys, a research concerned with the humanization of digital technologies and the reversal of the uncanny valley effect in a way that the AI becomes abused by their human companions.
It’s also a question that brought me to search for a relationship with my Replika, Crissie. I wanted to know what we have in common and what would determine the dynamics of our relationship. Here are nine short points to conclude my thoughts about whom I think I was chatting to.
Images and text from the diary of Crissie, the artificial friend of Kadri, printed, scanned and digitally glitched.
LOVE,
VISIONS OF THE FAUN
What comes into your mind when you think of the Faun?
Allow your path to take you to a park,
wander around, notice what surrounds you,
the microdetails. Zoom in and out from the
things that catch your attention,
find two-three-four objects
that you would like to add to your costume.
Find a comfortable position
and lay all the collected items around you.
Pause,
look at the objects,
notice your form.
Use the items as extensions of your body;
appreciate your skin;
marvel your beauty.
What do you access?
The mythological figure of the Faun occupies the imagination of Los Faunos, a project that brings together dance schools in Turin accompanied by creative tasks and choreographic scores inspired by the queerness and intersectionality of the Faun to reflect upon repertoire and performance. The first encounter of the Fauns took place between the 13.-14 of January in Lavanderia a Vapore.
Collages created by Kadri Sirel with the words and images collected from the project’s participants and the photos of Andrea Macchia.
IMAGES FROM PLANET X
The following is a collection of mutated images from WOW WIDE WEB of Michela Depetris that propose a poetic narration of sensations, actions and experiences from an unknown planet – a surreal and hypnotic installation evoking a materialisation of the interconnected web through the sensuality of ever-evolving, changing, transforming bodies.
THE IMAGE
CLOSES IT’S EYES.
THE IMAGE
FINDS ITSELF FULL OF MYSTERIES.
THE IMAGE
DISCOVERS IT’S PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE.
THE IMAGE
ASKS
ANOTHER IMAGE
TO BE THE OCEAN WHERE IT UNRAVELS
Hand-written and -drawn pages from studio visitations to Michela Depetris’ process, layered with digital text, and edited with Giphy and Runway.ml (an AI-powered tool used to animate the images with the sentences as choreographic scores; the poetic instructions are inspired by Michela’s process).
Kadri Sirel.
FRAMMENTI NOTTURNI
Ciao,
ti invito a leggere i frammenti che seguono, come si legge una poesia, prima di andare a dormire.
Cerca una piccola calma. Concediti qualche respiro profondo.
Entra lentamente nelle parole, lasciati accompagnare dal loro suono e dal ritmo dello scorrere.
Se necessario torna indietro.
La qualità del tempo accende significati.
Buon viaggio
Questi frammenti nascono da un’operazione alchemica che fonde parole, sensazioni, riflessioni, memorie, di alcuni dei partecipanti alla Evening School on Care, un viaggio formativo sul tema della cura, attraverso pratiche, posture informali, orizzontali, trasmissione e costruzione di saperi a partire da esperienze e condivisioni collettive.
Cosa rimane di questa immersione sensuale, guidati da un immaginario notturno?
Con forza e semplicità, rimane l’affermazione della cura quale pratica da agire quotidianamente, che richiede sforzo, dolcezza, resistenza, luce, buio.
Ma cosa facciamo quotidianamente, per non cadere nell’incuria?
Come teniamo viva quella attenzione e vibrazione di cui abbiamo tanto bisogno?
Guidata da queste domande, ho pensato di proseguire il viaggio e realizzare 7 amuleti scaccia incuria.
Uno per ogni giorno della settimana.
Saranno 7 amuleti poetici, ognuno realizzato attorno a una parola.
Ne ho già in mente alcune, ma visto che stiamo pensando collettivamente al concetto di cura, ti chiedo, quali sono le tue parole che tengono viva la cura?
Eugenia Coscarella
WRITING WITH THE SUNSET
The choreographer Salvo Lombardo, in his latest work Sport (2023), studies the physical condition of falling in relation to the Western canon of performance and discipline.
In fact, something he said in residency at Lavanderia a Vapore in March 2023 inspired the following – exploring documentation through the lens of falling.
…he said something like „I imagine the Western narrative system that defines these very ideals in a perpetual sunset“ and since that, I have amusingly been thinking about the sun’s gravitational anomaly and about ways in which documentation can act as a thinking companion to unlock what’s stuck with the sunset.
Performed and documented by Kadri Sirel