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There are no certainties outside of our body. The body, its extreme malleability, the mockery of gender distinctions, of aesthetic ideals. Body Art created a crack, destroying the superstructures built around the body, riding the years of sexual liberation, reflecting on the limits of the body itself, the impossible search for its total control and, consequently, of the surrounding space. For over ten years CORPO Festival of Performing Arts, curated by Ivan D’Alberto and Sibilla Panerai, has been studying the body through the eyes of artists who, nationally, but also territorially, have enriched and continue to enhance the controversial and fascinating language of performance and live art.
The BODY is a medium.
It is a naked palette on which human feelings are transformed into sounds and colours, and a painful memory can be elevated to collective memory. It is the mangled body of migrants carrying a dream of rebirth.
FRANCESCA FINI - Corpo II
Blind, Teatro Florian, Pescara 2012
The performative experiment that mixes body-art and interaction design. The aim is to transport the audience into a synaesthetic, immersive dimension, where the performer becomes the mediator of an unusual experience of colour. The artist’s painted body moves in front of a webcam programmed to recognize four different shades. The information produced is processed and sent to a digital synthesizer that activates a specific combination of sounds for each colour.
ANDREA MATARAZZO - Corpo X
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The tragedy of November 23, 1980, which shook Irpinia killing nearly three thousand people, is remembered through the use of a white sheet, charcoal and the artist’s body. Ninety seconds to relive the terrible tragedy. Andrea Matarazzo becomes a medium who records the intensity of the shock, a sort of human seismograph that connects the paper and the earth.
KYRAHM e JULIUS KAISER - Corpo VIII
(A)mare Conchiglie, Teatro Florian, Pescara 2018
In a sunset performance on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the town of Nettuno, south of Rome, italian-based artists Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser, invite elderly Italian and African migrants to share their stories over a meal, drawing timeless connections between generations of refugees and the endless struggle for dialogue. This project is an example of one way that artists are sharing and opening up conversations about migration and it continues to inspire confrontations.
The BODY is atonement.
Redemption and identity pass through the body, which survives a suffered daily life. He can strip himself of a legacy that does not belong to him and at the same time cluttered, opening the doors to a conscious present.
NICOLA FORNONI - Corpo VII
Corallo liquido, Spazio MATTA, Pescara 2017
In this action, the artist repeats like a ritual the gesture he performs three times every day to measure the glycemic value, exhibiting the most precious organic liquid, blood. He thus reflects on the social taboos of illness and the transience of life, overcoming the membrane of his body and rediscovering his own identity beyond suffering.
MANDRA CERRONE - Corpo VII
Sine Nonime, Isola di San Servolo 2017
A poetic gesture with a psycho magic significance to free oneself from transgenerational ties; by removing the invisible loyalty that binds us inextricably to our ancestors, we are freed from their judgment and from a psycho-emotional heritage that does not really belong to us.
MARCO CASOLINO - Corpo II
Azione albatro (ali e fede), MAAAC, Nocciano 2012
Inspired by the famous poetry of Baudelaire, the performance materializes the condition of the poet in a journey that wants to demonstrate how the memory of the experience can become cumbersome. Fifteen meters of wings on the artist’s body as a monument of his life. As Baudelaire’s albatross challenged archers and storms, Casolino challenges the ways of the world with his clumsy gait, in an emblematic journey towards the reconquest of freedom.
The BODY is cyclical.
It is a book open to human history, which tells about mythology, popular culture and today’s dilemmas. It is the mirror of feelings that are always different and always the same in an endless cycle.
NOEMA PASQUALI - Corpo IX
The Inner Eyes of Tiresia, Teatro Florian, Pescara 2019
A fusion of Body Art and narration that brings to life the metamorphosis of the myth of Tiresias, blinded by the gods, on the artist’s body, who in return gave him the power of clairvoyance. Lived seven years under the guise of a woman, Tiresias is an alter ego, a witch, a hermaphrodite, a being who does not belong to the lineage of humans and who has an intimate and personal vision, whose body is the medium between the multiple dimensions.
EMANUELA BARBI - Corpo IX
Parata - Teatro Florian, Pescara 2019
The artist recalls the figure of the Warrior of Capestrano, the androgynous figure of the ancient Piceno people, wearing a breastplate faithfully reproduced in crochet. In a circular dance on itself, the artist recalls the dervishes and the Abruzzese folk tradition, weaving a link between old and new, between popular and contemporary art.
FLAVIO SCIOLÈ - Corpo
RoseRosse - Teatro Florian, Pescara 2011
Presented in 2009 in Futuroma and Artcevia, in RoseRosse the artist immolates himself to the ultimate sacrifice, tearing his body and voice apart. Devoured, explored, named red roses invade the scene, the artist penetrates them by eating them and suffering their thorns. A sacrificial body immolated to the Act.