Oreste Will be back Archive 4, 2021

Oreste Will be back: Photography for performing arts: an endless archive. Nuit Blanche Paris 2021

This selection is part of a wider documentation work of an all-night-long performance at Nuit Blanche – Paris October 2021, Ancienne mairie du 1er arrondissement de Paris. I have been, as a performer myself, going through spaces to encounter Oreste will be back performers, in the attempt to keep body-to-body fragments of their actions.

From the beginning – 2014 onward – of my collaboration with the live performing arts collective Kulturscio’k, I have been working on specific projects requiring a possible definition of photography for performing arts, potential strategies to be in the physical space a performance, possible meanings of collecting pictures for archives, possible re-writing of stage photography experiences. Therefore Oreste will be back is also an archive relating every single event on stage, from rehearsals to public performances, a collection of 6000 pictures now. It is also a series of experiments in theatre photography, for instance, the book focusing on one creation residency. Oreste will be back is also a possible way to understand theatre photography as a performative act. 

The performance also includes installations and pieces from my research works from Opus Incertum and Ius soli.

Oreste Will be back: the performance

Oreste will be back is a rewriting of the myth of Orestes, the second part of a trilogy directed by Alessia Siniscalchi: the actor Paul Spera lays his flow on beats composed by Phil St. George with installations from my works lus soli and Opus Incertum reminding us of the right to reclaim our forsaken land and free it from murderers. The exile of Orestes is revisited through spontaneous dialogues between Alessia Siniscalchi and Paul Spera, reflecting on the violence of our times through Phil St. George’s music, Benjamin Sillon’s lights and projections, Maria Mazzella’s videography, and Didier Leglise’s sound design.The performance and video instillations are comprised of 5 chapters:  Insiders/outsiders Cursed home Freeing the land from murderers Δixn lus soli Featuring as well, 4 original raps composed by Phil St. George and Paul Spera, Full Moon of Revolution Tipping Point It’s a Curse Morte ti ascolto 

Daughters and sons yearning to be free can change the destiny of an entire generation. Their strife goes as far back as classical tragedy; it’s as bygone as the Bible. They invent new revolutions. They speak of utopia, as they did in the 1960’s, in the Renaissance or in ancient Greece. In this spontaneous performance installation in different experimental spaces and residencies,our protagonists desire to break free, but their guilt, and their horrific hallucinations, hold them down. Thus begins Oreste’s quest to find his roots. A voyage that takes him through cities where he doesn’t belong, a desperate wandering through lands where he isn’t wanted, a search for a nonexistent family in a world brimming with angst.