โa safe passage or a false idol?โ is a performance, culminating after a two-week residency at cultural venue Curva Minore in Palermo, Sicily. The work was initially inspired by a mosaic depicting the mythological Orpheus, creating a spellbound harmony in which he puts everyone around him into a submissive haze, suspending the world in perfect order; his lyra gathers the wild under its spell. But we live inside subtle glitches, pointless loops, and concealed fractures on seamless surfaces that promise balance and perfection. I wanted to make sculptural artefacts, my own interpretations of Orpheus lyra, that echo distortion and present noise instead of harmony, searching for an imperfect form of connection.ย
During the residency process, I gathered a lot of discarded steel and aluminium to build a site-specific sound mise-en-scรจne. The body moved through each artefact in a playful but concentrated exploration of the materiality of sound.ย Using contact mics, strings, a rotating motor, and a violin bow, the composition was intuitively built on stage.ย Surprise percussion, droning frequencies, reverberating clicks, taps, and steps, looping vocals, and harsh noise were discovered through a flashlight, illuminating the passage through each sculpture. The body movements were organically unfolding over deep breathing, slow and tense steps, exaggerating the dramatic costume.
