Oreste Will be back: percorso performativo terra vesuviana

Stage photography as performative act + collective path planning + field recording.

This photographic archive tells about the site-specific creation process at Kulturfactory, Domicella, December 2020. A video footage shows chronologically every single photo shot during the week of residency at Kulturfactory Contemporary International residency for the performance Oreste will be back. Gestures producing photos are influenced by the space composition: live music by Phil St George, other bodies (Alessia Siniscalchi, Paul Spera, Alessandra Guazzini, Benjamin Sillon, Maria Anzivino, Federica Clarizia, Marcella Martusciello, Imma Di Lillo, Maria Mazzella), field sounds, voices and speeches, lights performed by Benjamin Sillon and by other people, architectures, objects, trees, plants, soils.

An experimental photography book has been produced using photographs from this archive, presented for the first time during the Oreste will be back performance at Museo della Moda di Napoli, June 2021.

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.